Who are your favourite muay thai/kick boxing fighters?

It's hard for a western fighter to get the respect of the Thais, Benny the Jet for example never got it.

P.S. I remember you putting up a poster for one of your fights here on the forums a while back, how did it go Voodoo?

 

I know he had a bad knee injury, I believe he had that operated on (though he had a fight he went into with the injury for legal reasons), that was a couple of years ago. Perhaps he never completely recovered from it :huh

 

Another great fighter that deserves a mention is Jomhod. There was an 'Australia vs Thailand' kickboxing even held down here over a decade ago. Jomhod was matched up against a young Paul Briggs (who was embarking on his first career as a muay thai fighter). I give Paul credit since he must've been 17 years old or so and impressed me more than anyone else on the Australian team, but he didn't have the toughness or conditioning of the Thais at the time, and Jomhod just destroyed him with leg kicks.

Later on Paul went to Thailand to train at the same camp as Jomhod before winning a world title :good

 

May as well stir some **** about Benny the Jet while i'm at it

From

http://members.aol.com/Thaiboxing2000/muay.html

In the late 1970's Benny "The Jet" Urquidez faced Prayoud Sittiboonlert of Thailand in Japan. The rules in this encounter allowed the use of knees. Sittiboonlert was not the current Muay Thai Champion. Nevertheless, he punished Urquidez so bad that Urquidez's cornermen threw in the towel at the end of Round 2. In the picture (left), Sittiboonlert throws a brutal Thai kick to Urquidez's legs. What upsets me about the Urquidez publicists is the fact that they totally try to hide the result of this match. In the December 1998 issue of Black Belt Magazine (pages 33-34), Floyd Burk wrote: "Urquidez was so 'bad' that he could go to any country on earth, fight anybody he was paired up with according to their rules - and beat the living daylights out of them . . . Thai boxing-style leg whips and elbow and knee strikes, made it impossible for Urquidez's opponents to plan an effective strategy against him. They tried, but not a single one could do it." I've had enough of such false information surrounding Urquidez's misrepresented undefeated record and his false claims of having faced kickboxing opponents under any rules. For one, Sittiboonlert beat Benny soundly. Benny could not continue into the third round. Secondly, the WKA later ruled the fight a "no-contest" because they wanted to protect the record of their boy. How could someone not have a "lost" on their record if their cornermen threw in the towel? Third, Benny did not want anything to do with having to fight against a Muay Thai fighter in Thailand (especially with knees, elbows, and clinching). He repeatedly rejected any further challenges. To Urquidez's publicists and future publicists, if you want to say that Urquidez was a Full-Contact Karate Champion, then that's okay - you would have my respect. But don't try to misinform the public by saying that Benny was an undefeated World Champion in the ring who beat all of his ring challengers. He never stepped into Thailand and his lost to Sittiboonlert was never on his record. I don't know if Benny is responsible for the misrepresentation. But his publicists need to start telling the truth. I apologize for the rather rude connotation of this statement, but I've tolerated the lack of respect towards Thai Boxers from Urquidez's crew for more than a decade and it's time to show the world the truth. It is disrespectful to lose to an opponent or to refuse the challenges of a legitimate challenger and talk as if you have conquered them. That is disrespect to Sittiboonlert! That is disrespect to Muay Thai! And I'm not just speaking for the Muay Thai community in Thailand, but for the many Muay Thai practitioners in the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

 

He's Russian, these people invented the 'alco-movie' (a movie consisting entirely of two people drinking) and considered it a 'great cultural contribution'.