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Boxed Ears · Aug 1, 2020

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Him and his brother had this great song recorded about them

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Pow long kun ya chang'ke lik too tsung mo pai.

kirk · Aug 1, 2020

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Starting off Khaosai Galaxy isn't his real name, very cool name, but not his legal name. His last name "Galaxy" was a building that was owned by his manager. It is frequent that fighters on that side of the world they take the name of the gym their fighting in. Like "Kratingdaenggym" or "3K Battery" or what have you. Anyway, when you talk about his fighting style he was very aggressive and used his strength to win his fights. He was a very very strong fighter. If you watch his fights you really wouldn't think that he was a 115 pound fighter. He really is a very strong man, and he definitely used that too his advantage. He didn't have nowhere near elite level of boxing skill. One: boxing wasn't the sport he started out in, he was a kickboxer and converted over to boxing. (And with this style I'll get into it later in his early fights you definitely can tell that he was a kickboxer.) And two: He didn't have world class trainers around him over Thailand. It's a bit limited of what you can work with over there, at the time, (I'm sure it's better over there now, mainly because of Khaosai Galaxy)

More on his style, as I said he used his physical strength to get inside and really start working. Quick and powerful hooks and uppercuts on the inside. And then his money punch his straight left hand. His left hand (ranked by the Ring Magazine) was in the teens as one of the best single punches in all of boxing history and I would very much agree. If you look at some of his fights that left hand was brutal and very much a 1 punch KO weapon. And keeping up with his style, his footwork early in his career was poor. As mentioned above, he was a former kickboxer and when you look at his footwork he was hopping around and did have that kickboxing style stance.

Resume wise, it definitely is poor. He was a champion for the longest time. He had a world title and held it from the mid 80's to the early 90's. Defended it 19 times, but his resume was poor. And it sort of is too bad that he didn't go out of his comfort zone and try and fight the best fighters in the world at the time and try and unify. So, all in all, he had a very basic style...which I don't think favors him in fantasy fights considering if he fought a top name who had a style to nullify his brawling style he could definitely be beat, but then again, that's just what I think and it's just a fantasy fight. As it was, he only lost the one time and dominated his opponents. So, in a way it is good he didn't go out of his comfort zone and fight the best, because if he were to lose, well, he wouldn't be one of the top 112 fighters of all time. As it is, people just roll on over to boxrec, see a glossy record and make up their mind and that is all. All right to wrap this up, he had a very beatable style...the come forward, brawling, sort of one-dimensional style, but he beat pretty much everybody in front of his and defended his belt numerous times and you have to respect that.
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catchwtboxing · Aug 1, 2020

Boxing Prospect said: ↑

Him and his brother had this great song recorded about them

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I am not sure I understand the feelings that this video instills in me.

In any event great read DEMOLITION MAN. Galaxy was from my golden era of boxing watching, but that was before Youtube, so I never really got to see much of him. I was curious about him every time I saw his rank in the boxing magazines. So I enjoyed that.

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