I like muay thai but i have to say that fighter like yodwincha are fucking boring(and he is one of the very best fighter right now)
Also the fight are 5 round but basically te first 2 are rounds of nothing happening,and also is the 5....so the fights have only real action in the 3 and 4
I think that k 1(especially the max period)was better than anything
this is horrific....it kills all the fun in watching the sport.....especially when two thais are fighting abroad and they basically just cruise to the end of the fight, no respect for the paying spectators what so ever
when I say this usually there are mt fans on here that post vids of (brutal) knock outs to 'prove'me wrong, but there all these little things that fuck up the fun in viewing mt
- waikru, ritual dance etc..........I don't give a crap about this....when I see nuthuggers post 'wow, what a beautiful wai kru'bla ba bla I want to vomit....the waikru for me is a waste of time for the viewers
- The annoying music combined with the worst tv broadcasting ever. Fuck, they usually have 1 camera angle with screeching music throughout the fight and when I do watch the lil guys, the visual is partilly blocked by the ropes and the 1 camera angle....the audio and visual really takes away from the viewing pleasue. I gotta say that fighting to this music isn't that bad at all. I didn't mind the music when I fought but when you WATCH it's distracting and annoying.
- the weights.....what's the fun in wtaching guys fight that weigh 105 pounds....that's 47 kilo's.......in all fairness.....women and little children weigh more than that. Of course people will respond and say: yeah you want big heavy weight mma bums to watch but that;s not true and not the point. There is a border in what's watchable and what;s not, imo. What's next? Watching a 95 pound divison? Below 125/135 I have no interest anymore. Too many weight classes and basically lil kids fighting
- After a wai kru there's a 2 round feeling out process? Guys just basically use those rounds as a warm up. waste of time for the viewer again. Above this, it has been often stated that rounds 3 and 4 are the most important rounds. What's this for crap? You're in a 5 round fight and some rounds are more important than others in the scoring??? This is the bullshit influence by the gamblers and people just accept it.
- There is no will to win at all cost. Alot of fighters fight so often...sometimes 10-15 times a year, that they have to stay injury free to provide for a living. I can understand this, alot of these guys aren't rich and they need the income to live. But again, as a spectator, I couldn't give a crap. In some fights, not all of course, the 5th round is just cruising to the end of the fight. Fighters don't take chances to go for the kill....to make up ofor being behin on points. The mt fans don't mind this.......I'm like...what the fuck? Where's the fun if there's no drive to come back from behind with a huge upset knock out??? But wait....according to some mt fans, it has more to do with 'defence' and 'fights being evenly matched'. Bull crap. When a fighter is behind on points ans can no longer win on points. he should go for the kill.......it's the only to win AND the only thing that keeps the viewers glued to their chair. No no, instead both fighters opt to stay injury free and fight another day. Both winner and loser accept this result. From a fighters view point somehwat understandable. But it is a lack of respect to us, the viewers (maybe not in thailand, but in the rest of the world it is)
- Muay Thai in the stadiums is very poorly promoted. But I won't rant too much about it, cause there are also some thai promotions that do things right now and then. The bad promoting is also for a part due to the international promotions. the way the MPL handled it's business was so stupid. At least k1 gave the world 2 decades full of memories before they didn't pay their fighters. The MPL basically mismanaged everything and conned the fighters by not paying them
- Then there are these little things that don't happen that much but are still lame imo. One of them is two thais fighting each other abroad.....usually they go easy on each other wich I find a slap in the face again to the viewers. Another thing is those gym names used as surnames but that's not that important
- The the art itself. It's beautiful......what's not to like about 8 (10) weapons to be used in different ranges, from the outside kicker, to the close distance puncher/elbows to the clinch game...it has got it all. But then they go and let clinching go on for too long. The westerners/kb promotions don't allow the clinch or just a brief periode of a couple of seconds and the thai let it go on forever. And not just when they are working in the clinch....the clinch is also used to stall.....just like lay and pray in mma is sometimes used to stall. In this debate I think that kickboxing is wrong (rules are too strict on clinching) and MT is also wrong (boring clinch snoozefest without real action, the ref should recognize this sooner)
Of course there are also alof of things they do right. They fight often (maybe a bit too often) and don't give title shots that easy. They don't complain that much about judges decisions. When a thai fights abroad he never fights below his natural weight, often above it. This is a wrong doing by the promoters outside of thailand but then again: you sign to fight, you fight. But it's not fair and it takes away some of the pleasure of watching
there are other things that I can't come up with now, the post is too long as it is