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EmmyOk posted:I'd like to follow Muay Thai more, is there a PSP thread for it? I looked previously but couldn't find it because maybe it has a strange name? Outside of that what are the best promotions to follow? It seems a very interesting sport I am just not sure how to start following. I am so dumb Lion Fight is the major MT promotion in the states--they have a TV deal with AXS, so they're probably the best place to start. There are a bunch of posters who could give better recommendations for overseas stuff. I think most MT posting ends up in the Kickboxing thread.
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EmmyOk posted:I'd like to follow Muay Thai more, is there a PSP thread for it? I looked previously but couldn't find it because maybe it has a strange name? Outside of that what are the best promotions to follow? It seems a very interesting sport I am just not sure how to start following. I am so dumb In addition to all the correct things Dunc told you, here is a useful resource with schedules, photos, and fight recaps in English by all around cool dude Rob Cox, an Englishman who runs Kiatphontip gym over there with his wife's family and is at the stadiums 4 or 5 nights a week. http://www.muaythai2000.com/en/
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Gregor Samsa posted:In addition to all the correct things Dunc told you, here is a useful resource with schedules, photos, and fight recaps in English by all around cool dude Rob Cox, an Englishman who runs Kiatphontip gym over there with his wife's family and is at the stadiums 4 or 5 nights a week. eshock posted:Lion Fight is the major MT promotion in the states--they have a TV deal with AXS, so they're probably the best place to start. There are a bunch of posters who could give better recommendations for overseas stuff. I think most MT posting ends up in the Kickboxing thread. Triticum Guzzler posted:Muay Thai is really hard to follow because the actual legit stuff is all on lovely Thai TV streams and there's a whole lot of it, much of which is boring, and it's really hard to contextualise who is who and what is what. If you find someone super hardcore who actually follows all the results from Thailand the chances are they actually fight for a living, there's very few people outside of Thailand who follow all the stadium stuff recreationally. Thanks for the responses guys. This is exactly what I was after. I really appreciate the help
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kimbo305 posted:You don't have to be watching the two fighters the same way to be objective. If one guy is pressing the action, and the other is retreating and defending, you don't need to be looking at both's offensive output the whole time. You can pick roles that the fighters' gameplans are molding them into during the fight, and gauge the actions taken in the context of those roles. That's a bit oversimplified. This is a pro post. Thank you. I will try this with some fight pass fights sometime soon for practice.
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A trainer at my Muay Thai gym suggested I watch videos of a fighter, and I can't remember the name. I don't feel like waiting until next class to be reminded--this is a long shot, but know of any good kickboxers with a tall lanky build that one could watch to take notes on movement/technique?
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Semmy Schilt?
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DekeThornton posted:Semmy Schilt? Hm, maybe. I'd be surprised if he recommended me a heavyweight, but it can't hurt to watch some Semmy videos.
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Andy Ristie and Raymond Daniels are pretty tall and lanky..
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Not as good as any of those guys, but Cyrille Diabate?
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Kickboxers are always tall and lanky so it could be anyone. It's probably Petrosyan or Badr Hari, though. I don't know what you would learn from watching Schilt, Ristie, or Daniels
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Trying to learn anything applicable from someone who's 6'11" and prob can't make the UFC heavyweight limit is gonna be tough. Sato, maybe?
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Nothing rings a bell but it honestly is good for me just to have these names to watch the fights, and one might be the right one. I'll find out tomorrow--thanks all!
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kimbo305 posted:Trying to learn anything applicable from someone who's 6'11" and prob can't make the UFC heavyweight limit is gonna be tough. My favourite thing about Schitt is how when he double-collars someone and they get their hands in position to block knees he just starts kicking them in the legs from like 7 feet away.
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If you're somehow 7 feet tall with a 90 inch wingspan then yeah Semmy Schilt could be the guy for you!
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In terms of fighting from range you could do a lot worse than watching Joanna Jędrzejczyk
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Is Brock Jardine the most MMA name ever?
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-Atom- posted:Is Brock Jardine the most MMA name ever? Wanderson Silva?
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I've been watching this gay sport for about 2 months and thought it would be cool to go watch the first UFC on fightpass. It was so amazing I immediately watched the next two as well. I guess my general question is how the gently caress did the UFC survive long enough to turn into the vaguely respectable sport it is now. 
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Kuno posted:I've been watching this gay sport for about 2 months and thought it would be cool to go watch the first UFC on fightpass. It was so amazing I immediately watched the next two as well. That is actually a pretty good question and I'm not sure there is a great answer besides "insane billionaires". These rich dudes bought it for $2 million and then proceeded to dump around $40 million into it over 4 or 5 years and were finally at their wits ends (and pondering selling it off) when it started becoming a real thing and making money.
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Yeah but how did it survive the SEG days? They had money but it wasn't Zuffa money.
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If you have fight pass watch this documentary. http://www.ufc.tv/video/fighting-for-a-generation It covers most of it and is quite interesting.
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1st AD posted:Yeah but how did it survive the SEG days? They had money but it wasn't Zuffa money. UFC was really profitable in its first few years, it wasn't 97 when John McCain really started putting a hurt on the sport at the behest of boxing. By 98 the PPVs were losing money but not a huge amount, so it was possible for them to hang on a few years chasing the dream of the money they made from 93-96/7. Even in 98 they were still able to pack certain venues in the states they could run so there was reason for hope if they could get the cable companies back.
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The first show was a surprise success. It was something people really wanted to watch, and ran into trouble from regulators, as other posters have mentioned. That it grew into a legit sport though, that is known in several countries with big name athletes sponsored by bud light and burger king and reebok is pretty mind blowing though.
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So I totally forgot to ask the name of that fighter, yet again, at class last night. But while going through the recommendations you guys gave me I came across Nieky Holzken, and I really enjoy watching his fights.
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Cyber Dog posted:So I totally forgot to ask the name of that fighter, yet again, at class last night. But while going through the recommendations you guys gave me I came across Nieky Holzken, and I really enjoy watching his fights. Holzken is great but here's another lanky fighter for your list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmuMeEDeFI
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So I'm still watching these old UFCs and uh, Tank Abbott. Please give me the summary of Tank Abbott and his homemade fighting style named after a video game.
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Luigi Thirty posted:So I'm still watching these old UFCs and uh, Tank Abbott. Please give me the summary of Tank Abbott and his homemade fighting style named after a video game. I believe it was fatherdog that described him as "Better than anyone fatter, fatter than anyone better"
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Google Tank Abbott's book, it is a novel btw not an autobiography.
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Luigi Thirty posted:So I'm still watching these old UFCs and uh, Tank Abbott. Please give me the summary of Tank Abbott and his homemade fighting style named after a video game. Tank Abbott is the person we should all thank for making MMA acceptable as a mainstream sport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMD-TWtY9lQ
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EmmyOk posted:Google Tank Abbott's book, it is a novel btw not an autobiography. I'm still waiting on parts 2 and 3 to come out 
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Triticum Guzzler posted:moral imperative: watch Tank/Ferrozo 3 in someone's back yard
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LobsterMobster posted:I'm still waiting on parts 2 and 3 to come out I always forget your avatar is Tank in disguise.
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Tank Abbott should sign up with Bellator, join Shamrock, Royce, and his successor the talented Mr. Slice in their grandpa division.
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I'm trying to track down a video I had forever that the link eventually went bad on. It was a collage of the pre Wand Rampage two talk up followed by the fight highlights shot put together in an epic way with an eventual multi color effect kicking on when Wand started lighting Rampage up with knees. I loved the video so much it even took me literally over a year to track down the song that was playing, which was Fat City by Muggs. That song alone is incredible. Any help is much appreciated.
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Captain Log posted:I'm trying to track down a video I had forever that the link eventually went bad on. It was a collage of the pre Wand Rampage two talk up followed by the fight highlights shot put together in an epic way with an eventual multi color effect kicking on when Wand started lighting Rampage up with knees. I loved the video so much it even took me literally over a year to track down the song that was playing, which was Fat City by Muggs. Here you go http://tinyurl.com/nz85kmy
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