Buakaw.vs.SunTao

john kavanagh

from China.VS.Thailand.Police.Freestyle.Tournament.2003

anyone seen this fight? just watched it and thought it was excellent!

buakaw is my fav 'striker' by far - his technique and timing are flawless, so for me this clash of styles was all the more interesting. also from an MMA perspective it is very interesting as there is a lot more 'clinch' fighting with buakaw scoring a nice body lock takedown (as well as getting taken down numerous times!)

very cool and the SunTao fella does very well, using his style nicely....but it is only a matter of time before the inevitable...:D

not sure if its on youtube but you should try and get it

dlofnep

http://hosted.filefront.com/Buakaw - fight is there for anyone who wants to see it.

Just downloading now John. I'll have a peep

dlofnep

I uploaded it to youtube for easier access.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3TryRJQhs4

Valmont

I've always been a fan of Buakaw. I really enjoyed watching him win his first world-max tournament using the thai clinch, his opponents didn't know what hit them. It was amazing.

Shortly after this, K-1 banned clinching and a few people thought that Buakaw wouldn't be so good anymore but he showed great adaptability and showcased his amazing punches while winning his next tournament (not sure of the year).

I think he is the quintessential muay thai fighter:D

Millionaire

Excellent Fight, I love these type of fighitng...my fav combat sport.

He fights out of Bangkok, but is originally from Surin up in Isan, North East Thailand, which is about 1 hour up to road from where I used to live. (some of the upcountry camps often sell on up coming fighters, to the bigger camps in Bangkok, not like soccer players).

Alot of the different camps, have their own style of fighing. Up in the North East where the best fighters seem to come from, as its so poor, and becoming a Champ Fighter is the only break available to these poor kids.

In the North East camps, they are all very big on Clinch fighting, train it an hour or two a day of clinch wrestling. and are excellent at takedowns like he does, and all sorts of trick to slam you on the floor. Some might be techincally a foul in Muay Thai, but are done and sometimes ref turns a blind eye. especially up there, and most of the matches go to clinch very fast and are fought in clinch with knees and elbows.

You may remember me posting, back earlier in the year, about how I was getting thrown on head over heels by tiny little guys in clinch, and all sorts of take downs I never saw before.

while down here in Pattaya, it seems more punch/kick orientated, and the matches do not go to clinch as much at all.

Incidently Tony Jaa the Muay Thai actor Ong Ba, is also from Surin, and I did here the commentator refer to this too. ( I think).

paddyc

all the NE lads are generally darker skinnedthats the first give away that there from the NE and in my opinion most of the top fighters coem from the NE of SIAM, they seemt o have a toughness that the other thais dont....


Bit like this country... best fighters are from the NE... belfast, down etc etc


paddy

Millionaire

aye...some of them are as black as the ace of spades. They hate it too, the darker your skin, the lower down the trough you are. (they do anything to stay out of the sun and avoid getting more black). I even seen some of the boxers when I was up north, but whitener on their faces. (poofs!)

I think they are the best fighters, because they got fooking nothing up there, most are dirt poor. If you go into a Muay Thai camp, at least you got a bed and 3 meals a day, and some sort of a chance (your only chance), plus the better camps will make you go to school to learn readin and writin. either that or work in the Paddy Field...going rate 170 bhat a day, less than 4 euro.
standing in watery mud all day bent over picking rice, under blazing sun, and threat of being bitten by poisonous snake like Cobra. (death comes in minutes).

Isan is a different breed of Thai, and looked down on as Culchies by the other Thais.

Also about 95% of Bar Gals are from Isan too. The Isan gals seem to have the bar girl market well cornered.

Brother Boxs, sister goes on the game. thats life in the North East.

I like Isan people, they have a fun attitude. Shame of it is, when the lads in Isan retire from boxing wheather they made it or not, they become full time whiskey drinkers. They drink like fook up in NE, not unusual to see them tucking into the Thai whiskey at 9am in the morning.