ESB ATGs Muay Thai / KickBoxing fighters Thread

Welcome back flea:happy

 

Good to be back in this thread Sir :thumbsup

 

Look what the cat dragged in........

Good to have you back mate, the forum's been a poorer place without you!:good

 

:good I have time for everyone

 

I know this is a Muaythai/kickboxing thread, and this vid is of an amature boxing match uploaded by CHOKDEEVIDEO(and a damn good one at that). But since its between Ramon Dekkers and Den Maungsurian I think its relevant.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxjlqF2HCE&feature=context-gfa[/ame]


if anyone has any background on this fight please post it.

 

Was never a huge fan of Somluck's style overall, but an INCREDIBLE fighter. Him and Samart are probably the most relaxed nak muay I've seen thus far. Just born for the ring.

What's up with Jockygym putting out so many great fighters with slick styles in the past, and why not so much anymore? Off the top of my head...Somluck, Saenchai, Lerdsila, Silapathai?

There are others, but the four above stand out immensely against a backdrop of incredible fighters and competition. I know Dany Bill trained out of there as well and he was a great fighter also.

 

BoranBKK: could you give me any insight into Khamsing's decision to go to the Olympics? Where was he at in his career going into it???

I know the story is "I couldn't get any big fights" but I think we've addressed that before. Just seems odd that he was chosen, although if I'm not wrong he was already a big star (in Muay Thai terms) before going to Atlanta. Or at least highly respected.

Was he the top MT fighter at the time would you say?

 

Petrosyan would have IMO taken Parr to school, and I respect Parr a LOT.

 

Shame he's scared to fight under Muay Thai rules.

 

My trainer told me that gyms today train their fighters to be more exciting in the ring, rather than build their skills.

 

I think thats an unfair statement.

 

well, it's hard to be more exciting than those fighters in the 90's were.

 

Nice post Yaca and I agree it’s super relevant. :good Dekkers and Den met three times (?) in the MT world so this just adds to MT folklore. I’ve never seen that clip before, what a gem, it’s one of the best amateur bouts I’ve ever seen especially the first 3 rounds. Let’s hope some of the coming Olympic bouts are half that good. :happy

Now, in terms of the background to this fight we have some interesting coincidence considering we’re taking about Somluck and Boonlai at the moment in the thread. Just listening to the commentary, I’ve picked up that this event was a testing ground for the Atlanta 96 Olympic games. It seems two army general promoters hosted this event at the Mall Bangkapi as an open audition/ testing ground for Thai amateurs against invited foreigner amateur boxers to try to see what they had to pick form to get their squad together for the 96 Olympics.

The coincidence to Somluck is obvious, the 96 Atlanta Olympics, but the other interesting coincidence is to Boonlai. The Army own Lumpinee and are heavily involved in the Muay Thai world with gyms, promotions (mostly Lumpinee) and fighters etc. Boonlai comes from the famed Sor Thainkul gym which was owned and managed by Mr Klao Thainkul, the biggest godfather Thailand has ever seen. He loved Muay Thai and basically built up one of the biggest and most successful stable of fighters in the 80s and 90s. His other passion (as well as dogs:deal) was Thai amateur boxing and until his assassination in 1991, behind the Sor Thanikul MT gym there was a separate facility where the Thai Amateur boxing team trained under his auspices. A very famous Lumpinee promoter “ X” learnt his trade and took orders for Mr Klao and his Army general partners in crime. Mr Klao ran it all and it benefited everyone. However, there was talk of the confident Mr Klao getting more heavily into politics in a country where money really talks and he had an audience with the King, he was getting way too big. Anyway, one thing led to another and the army generals assassinate Mr Klao and his driver in a machine gun and RPG fest on a lone highway on the outskirts of BKK in Samut Sakon. :scaredas: The result “X” has the Muay Thai world handed to him on a plate by the increasingly powerful generals and the generals get to do as they please without any interference from a dangerous foe such Mr Klao who could have one day wound up as a powerful legitimate politician in Thailand! The Generals and “S” still have that partnership until today. The point is this event with Den and Dekkers is probably being promoted and handled by two of the Generals mentioned in the aftermath of above as they’d have “inherited” the Thai Amateur Boxing Team after the death of Mr Klao. By the way this is all allegedly and pure hearsay probably nothing but gossip.

Anyway, here’s Den and Dekkers as we love to remember them:


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOWDrZWwhBI[/ame]


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7L4X98xeko[/ame]

 

Oh dear, not another one. :-(

This is starting to become a very regular miconception on this thread. Pira was talking MT not Kickboxing FFS!

But you do have to wonder why they never met. Old man JWP has never ducked anyone anywhere! Petro hasn't fought in Thailand since he got his arsed kicked full MT rules and only fights Thais in his own backyard under Kickboxing rules!

I wonder.......:think

 

thanks for the info boran:good