Hi guys! Willkommen to MuayThaiArt.com/weblog! I was wondering and asked myself that question which is what today’s article will be about. But then I realized I should scope the timeline down a bit, just in the past 2 hundreds years. So my actual question was who the best Muay Thai fighter is in the past 200 years.

So what I did was looking online and asking many trainers and guess what there are so many answers for that questions, so I can’t conclude. And basically whoever once a World champion are all said to be good, though not all are the best. No offense, but let’s just say that there are lots of the best Muay Thai boxers in Thailand.

Muay Thai was always and will always be Thailand’s national sport. In the very first competition, holed coconut shells put in water were used as timers. They would fight unlimited rounds until either one give up. The rules have developed and changed until today.

On of the fact that Muay Thai was so important in the past is whoever know, are good at Muay Thai and have great body (in the past they compare the body structure, not the weight) will get a chance to perform in front of the King and whoever win will be offered an honorable job which is the King’s secret agent, or what I call “bodyguard”. So, most of great Muay Thai fighters from the past were soldiers.

Anyway, I’ll just let you decide who the best Muay Thai fighter you know is. Share your answer with us and our friends right here. I really wanna know actually. For one thing, I believe that the best Muay Thai fighter can be anyone, not only Thai boxers. So help me out here. Let’s us know what you really think.

Hi guys! Welcome to MuayThaiArt.com/weblog. Today I wanna show you another upcoming Thai boxing fight. Three famous Muaythai boxers from Thailand, Sakmongkol, Somluck Khamsing and Kaoponglek will face English boxers in “Muaythai Legend 2008″, at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, London, England on August 16th 2008. This is presented by Dan Green.

Don’t miss it! The main fights are between:
Sakmongkol (Thailand) VS Steven Wakeling (England)
Somluck Khamsing (Thailand) VS Kieran Keddle (England)
Kaoponglek (Thailand) VS Dave Pacquette (England)
Chajmaa Bellekhal (Holland) VS Bernise Alldis (England)

And other co-features by Rick Barnhill, Chris Knowles, Ruth Ashdown, Leon Walters, Dillian White, Olley Watsan, Dan Hope and more.

Poster from www.muaythaionline.net

Ticket price for 25 pound for standard, 30, 50, and 75 pound for front row seats. Purchase NOW by calling Box Office Credit Card Hotline now at 020 8688 9291. Or from Alan Keddle 07940 559731, from Mark Wakeling 07956 504068, from Bill Judd 07956 578449, from John Jarvis 07702 119198 and from Sean Toomey 07946 153082. Sell out expected, so hurry! Doors will be open at 4 PM and the first show will begin half and hour after.

I still haven’t heard many of other people opinions. But some have already expected the fight result of the main bouts. For example like David will easily KO Kaoponglek and Somluck has been away from the ring for a long while, so he’s quite old must be able just to move and avoid strikes, however some still support and cheer Somluck. As the matter of fact, these English fighters does own quite lots of belts. And it won’t be in Thailand so the results can be up to the judges and referee. So I don’t wanna add my own comment here. Let’s just say anything could happen. You can tell us what you think right here.

If you’ve been with boxing long enough, you’ll agree that it’s almost impossible to win about against a local boy on home turf. The nearly only chance is to win by KO. But it’s not that easy to do so. Just like Peter Semo’s mistake on May 17. He UD lost to Ukrainian Sergy Fedchenko at Sportpalace Lokomotiv, Kharkov, Ukraine.

I’m not saying that Fedchenko wasn’t good. But if you watched the fight, you would have thought that Semo would win because he is such an aggressive boxer in the ring. Every fight he has fought he always aimed to KO his rival. And that must have been his mistake also.

And because Fedchenko won a 12 round UD over Semo (115-113, 114-112, 120-108), he captured IBF Inter-Continental light welterweight belt. Fedchenko didn’t have as much power in each punch like Semo but at the same time, he was faster and more accurate and his footwork was even better than Semo. So he could hit Semo with wonderful left hook.

At the special post-fight presser, Fedchenko claimed that Semo was good with all his powerful punches and things but he didn’t manage to land a single shot those on him- or else he wouldn’t be at that presser.

And for the ex-champ, he was disappointed with the result and hoped for a rematch. He knew that Fedchenko was fast and had very quick moves. Every time he tried to set a distance Fedchenko threw quick punches and moved around. Seme said he would have to go back and train harder for a rematch one day or for some other great fight.

This situation is world wild. You can’t win a home country boxer if you can’t KO him. In Thailand is the same! However there are some certain rules of judgment and scoring which I’ll talk about tomorrow. So come back again tomorrow to learn Muay Thai rules about Judgment and scoring here at MuayThaiArt.com/weblog.

I guess lots of boxing fans knew and have visited this site already. IMO, Boxnews.com.ua is splendid and so complete. It’s one of my sources. The site is always modernized. Here you can find almost everything about each fight. This is the site I always come to look for updates. However it’s originally made in Ukraine so the official language of the site is Russian. But don’t worry, they also have English version (I’m not that expert in Russian), just click on the British flag above on the left.

In the site, there are boxing related you might want to know also. Besides boxing reports, there are rating, schedule, results, boxers, photos, and links.

What I like about this site is the latest boxing news is always on the left side in every page. That makes sure that I don’t miss any important news. My favorite is schedule. This is one way I keep track of Muay Thai Kickboxing. Just the rating is updated monthly, so some will have to be corrected.

Check out this site! It’s the one I truly want to recommend you today. You won’t overlook any news updates and results, just by one tick to http://www.boxnews.com.ua/?lng=en

Enjoy!

Let me know how you feel about it. If you as well have any interesting sites that you want to share with other boxing fans, please let me know. At MuayThaiArt.com/weblog, we’re eager to give you everyday all kinds of stuff about Muay Thai, other types of boxing and even Thailand, so DON’T forget to visit our blog right here!

A couple days ago I read news of once famous Muay Thai boxer. I don’t wanna put his name here, since it was no good news and he was such a great fighter. Anyway he was arrested for dealing drugs. That made me thinking. I want to know what all those many boxers do once they stop being in the rings.

The person I’m gonna talk about today also once a famous Muay Thai fighter. He was a WBA Flyweight Champion from Feb 13 1994 to Nov 24 1996. Only two years of glory and money. IMO, that’s quite a short time. After that his life got worse and never gets any better. His name is Saen Sor Ploenchit.

Saen Sor Ploenchit picture from Wikipedia

Unluckily he didn’t save much money for his future. After he lost his WBA Flyweight Champion, his career seemed to end. He didn’t get much chance to fight in big match anymore. Until one day he himself decided to end his boxing career.

Who knows that once being a great boxing champion, one day Saen Sor Ploenchit had to earn money by staring in some music videos? Today his life is getting better now I believe. Since an owner of Muay Thai gym heard about him and wanted to help by offering him a job as a trainer at his gym.

I know that many Thai boxing fighters don’t have good ending for their lives. At least Saen Sor Ploenchit didn’t end his life by throwing himself in jail like the one I read about in the news. One thing it was their fault that they didn’t plan to save money for the future but the other reason might be because Thai government doesn’t support professional Muay Thai boxer as a career. Once they stop fighting, there goes their money. I hope one day the government will take an eye on these great people that at least once bring honor to the country.