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Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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LobsterMobster posted:

This is a rad Muay Thai fight. Go watch it if you like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN4sU1T8tNs

Pakorn also had a famously ridiculous fight with Pornsaneh Sitmonchai, which you should definitely look up if you like brawls.

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Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Lamadrid posted:

Good lord Masato gets trounced for three good rounds so badly that Buakaw almost stopped beating the poor dude at the end of the third.The the extra round happens and he says gently caress it.

The Buakaw-Kohi fight in this tournament is funnier.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Triticum Guzzler posted:

I don't know about Miguel Torres but the loving nutso Dustin Jacoby suicide cult, trying to put Ky Hollenbeck in a title fight, and literally paying Marc de Bonte to not fight so they could put Raymond Daniels in the tournament were all Spike's doing

My guess is that they desperately want north Americans to care

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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willie_dee posted:

That was cool as gently caress, are there any other historic must watch kickboxing fights?

The Dekkers-Coban series, Jognsanan vs Sakmongkol

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Dangersim posted:

That's not cool but the fact that someone wrote that many words about it is much less cool

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Triticum Guzzler posted:

hey so if anybody remembers that story about Shemsi Beqiri having to pull out of a fight for Glory earlier this year because of being beaten in his gym by masked men with baseball bats, the story is a bit more complicated

the masked men were with his former trainer, they stormed his gym and held a class hostage, including holding his brother at gunpoint, to force Beqiri to fight his former trainer, and when Beqiri started to win everybody jumped on him, and weirdly enough there's a video of it thanks to Swiss news

http://bazonline.ch/basel/land/Das-erste-Video-des-KickboxKampfes/story/28956140 starts at 7:30, is more mma than kickboxing, and is generally really loving weird to watch

How unbelievably bizarre.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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attackmole posted:

In totally irrelevant news for the few kickboxing fans who know about basketball, Darko Milicic claims he's retiring from MMA to try to be a pro kickboxer. I wish Japan still had kickboxing orgs with money because somewhere out there there's a yakuza guy salivating over all the good freakshows he could put a seven foot tall basketball player in.

This is as weird as the compelled gym fight a while back.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Triticum Guzzler posted:


Also Buakaw reported K-1 to the police yesterday because there's a gambling sponsor on their website. It's loving weird and idiotic. Of course, muay thai and gambling simply wouldn't be seen together.


This is so pricelessly ridiculous I don't even know what the gently caress. For those of you with your mouths not agape yet, the majority of the crowd at pretty much every event in Thailand is gamblers.

Triticum Guzzler posted:

Buakaw Banchamek vs. Enriko Kehl

Extra funny because despite his giant shitfit, all he has to do is go kick the poo poo of out Kehl for the second (third?) time, which will require very little effort.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Dangersim posted:

Isn't the reason they don't go hard until the 3rd round because that's when the bets are locked in?


coconono posted:

Correct. This is because traditionally, the gamblers have no idea who the fighters are so the first few rounds are to help them decide.

Not totally correct, as bets are still taken after the 3rd. It has more to do with the scoring system, in which the first two rounds are almost always scored 10-10.

It's entirely possible that they began scoring fights like this in response to the influence of gamblers, and it wouldn't be the first time -- apparently the rise of the fighters who almost exclusively clinch-and-knee and are very physically strong was because these kind of fights are often very back and forth, and made for good gambling fare. Lots of MT purists got upset about this and I think there was a push in the other direction, with Lumpinee banning a certain style of clinching a few years back (you can no longer come in and clinch low around your opponent's waist and drive knees into his hips because it makes for loving boring fights). But it has resulted on a big emphasis on scoring for knees/throws from the clinch -- basically the only time anybody beats Saenchai, for example, is if they can march him down, tie him up, and physically overpower him in the clinch, even if they get outclassed everywhere else in the fight.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Details please. Not watching the stream and am now very upset about that.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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:ughh: Thanks everybody.

And yeah, sympathy for Buakaw rapidly dwindling.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Triticum Guzzler posted:

I had no idea it was happening at all, but Sergei just rematched Anderson Braddock Silva half an hour ago and TKO'd him in the second round, surprisingly

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqYT6O4zCZs

Thanks for the video. 5 min rounds -- odd.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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I always assumed you hung out in dodgy bars or were a criminal.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Seltzer posted:

That's a really flimsy looking belt.

Strategically positioned to cover middle aged bellies

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Triticum Guzzler posted:

the K-1 65kg thing was earlier and this happened which is fairly to insanely cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTFRGHgTMo0&t=340s

Kaew is a loving boss.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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LobsterMobster posted:

Watching some shoot boxing and I don't know anyone yet but dudes are throwing heaters so I'm happy

It's a good card and with some luck, Rob Emerson is gunna get killed. Where are you watching?

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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It appears Emerson did not even fight and the winner of the tournament was gifted multiple decisions.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Triticum Guzzler posted:

yep, on the other hand there was some wacky worked fight and a bunch of incredibly cool kos: https://vine.co/v/OnIKQxAeQTA

:( Pornsaneh needs to call it a day. He's Bovy 2.0

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Apparently Emerson waited until 3 days before the flight to try to get a passport and then they said "no, we shall not give you a passport, let alone expedite this, because you owe 3K in child support."

All this after his MT coach (not Oyama) bought a bunch of new luggage and travel necessities, as well.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Triticum Guzzler posted:

Is he exceptionally loving dumb, are passport applications somehow extremely fast in the USA, or did he just not want to die and found an easy out?

First one.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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For PSP's love of groin shots:





The facial expression is what makes it.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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coconono posted:

There's a whole squad of bloggers/tumblrs that hate Tyson(which is how I found out about the article).

A girl got real mad and called me a rape apologist at a party once for wearing a t shirt with Tyson on it.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Yuriy posted:

some party

Academia.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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"What are you gunna do about it"

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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fatherdog posted:

Tyson did a lot of lovely things in his life but he also is completely and totally forthcoming both about all the lovely things he did and how lovely they were. It's hard not to feel at least a little sympathetic to someone who appears to be trying as best he can to live a better life, long after the point where most people would care.

:agreed:

He was also, in a number of ways, abused and exploited in ways that would gently caress up even an initially very psychologically stable individual.

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Triticum Guzzler posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sy7ZlSB16Y

watch this fight. watch it. watch this fight. it starts off a bit slow but by the final rounds it becomes a leg kick body blow death battle.

also there's a k-1 china show on right now, streaming for free at http://www.hunantv.com/v/2015/zrqwzbs/

K-1 409 - CHINA vs JAPAN
60kg Tomohiro Kiyai vs wu ze
63kg Keisuke Nakamura vs Wang Zhiwei
65 Kuji Yoshimoto vs Hanji
70kg Hideaki Kikkawa vs Tien Xin
70kg K-Jee vs Zang Lei
70kg Jungle Koki vs Ba Te Er
53kg Syuri vs E Meidie

that javier hernandez kid is no joke

Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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Triticum Guzzler posted:

SPIN THE WHEEL FOLKS: GUESS WHAT JUST HAPPENED TODAY IN KICKBOXING:

that's correct, shortly after being released from prison Golden Glory founder Ron Nyqvist was found shot to death in a parking garage

This thread title is just loving perfect.

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Gregor Samsa
Sep 5, 2007
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That didn't take long.

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