Muay Thai Stuff’s Blog

Muaythai friends, once again October will witness some fantastic muaythai events from all over the globe!!

First of all, congratulations must go out to the South American Muaythai Confederation for organising the South American Confederation Cup in Chile. A big thank you to the confederation for organising yet another successful and spectacular event.

OCTOBER ACTION!!!

• Hong Kong will see two mega events this month with Planet Battle on the 7th and the WMC I-1 Grand Slam on the 22nd.
• Australia will have two major events with Evolution 18 for the first time in Melbourne and Supremacy in Perth.
• The 10th of October will see a fantastic event blending both amateur and professional muaythai bouts in the beautiful city of Torino, host city of the 2006 Winter Olympics.
• October 16^th will see world class Muay Thai comes back to Calgary. Promoted by CAKMA and Mike Miles Muay Thai, H2H PUNISHMENT promises to be a great night out at the fights.
• The United States will be witnessing another international event in Santa Clara, California.
• October 31st will see the 3rd Venezuelan Muaythai Championships in San Cristobal City.
• Germany will see another King’s Cup Challenge which will decide who will be the representing Germany at His Majesty the King of Thailand’s birthday event.
• Malaysia will see the opening of the Z-1 Series.
• With so many world class events this month and even more to follow in November, it truly is a testament to the growth of our sport, so let’s keep it up, promoting top class international events!!!

News sent from WMC partner from Argentina

Charles “Kid Khaos” Bennett announces that “That Nigga is Dead!” – indicating that he will no longer answer to the name “Krazy Horse” because he has turned a new page in his career and has put his past behind him

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As requested by many customers, we produce the addition color mix for the favorite Two-tone muay thai shorts

This month we have the promotion: FREE T-shirts, Shorts and Hoodies

• Buy $100 GET FREE TUFF T-shirt
• Buy $200 GET FREE KOMBAT Shorts
• Buy $300 GET FREE KOMBAT Hoodies

This month, we have the chance to sponsor the big Muay Thai event, MAYHEM XIII. The event took place on October 2nd in New York, presented by Moonstone Promotions and Five Points Academy

Here is the lineups and result

WKA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Emily Bearden (USA/Five Points) vs. Daniela Graf (Germany) 117.7 lbs
BEARDEN BY Unanimous Decision

WKA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Eddie Martinez (USA/Five Points) vs. Lee Morgado (England) 147 lbs
MORGADO by TKO, Round 4

Joseph Murdaugh (Megalodon Gym) vs. Suleiman Suleimanov (Russia) 147 lbs
SULEIMANOV by Unanimous Decision

Sean Hinds (USA/The Wat) vs. Georgi Ilkov (Bulgaria) 165 lbs
HINDS by Unanimous Decision

Brett Hlavacek (The Wat) vs. Marcus Fisher (Pittsburgh Muay Thai) 165 lbs
HLAVACEK by Unanimous Decision

Chris Tran (Weapons 9) vs. Patrick Yee (Sitan Gym) 134 lbs
YEE by Unanimous Decision

WKA AMATEUR INT’L TITLE:
Darren Robson (Canada) vs. Omar Ahmed (Sitan Gym) 139 lbs
AHMED by Unanimous Decision

Stanley Purnell (The Wat) vs. Turan Hasanov (Borodin’s) 147 lbs
PURNELL by Unanimous Decision

Nicholas Vaughn (The Wat) vs. Valentin Satichuk (Borodin’s) 170 lbs
VAUGHN by Unanimous Decision

Wyatt Knaster (Five Points) vs. Nuri Kholboev (Borodin’s) 138 lbs
KNASTER by Unanimous Decsion

The event poster

The event t-shirt designed by TUFF Boxing

For more detail, please check the promoter website: http://www.academyfivepoints.com

I was told by Zig Zach that he just got a training session with the F-1 driver, Mark Webber. It should be interesting, the F-1 driver doing the Muay Thai. I am not gonna write more detail. I give you the original blog of Zig Zach: http://www.zigzach.com/2008/10/week-of-f-1-madness.html

Mark Webber and Zig Zach

Mark Webber with his knee

Zig Zach giving Mark a Tuff Boxing T-shirt

Mark getting strapped into his F-1 car

Big Thanks to Zig Zach for the update

World Championship Tournament -FINAL8-
Date : Monday 7 July 2008, Gate Open 4:30PM / Event Starts 6:00PM
Venue : Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan

Now, again, the biggest martial arts tournament in Asia is going to begin in July 2008. Definitely, this is the event that all of the fans is waiting for and there is, of course, the favourite Muay Thai fighter join the tournament. And again at the first round, he will meet Yoshihiro Sato who seems not a very easy task for Buakhao. The website will provide pre-match analysis of fighters before the tournament as well as the opinion about the prediction of fight result.

Thanks picture from K-1 Official website

• Takeshi Yamazaki won Shinsuke Shoji by outvote
• Jason Miller won Shibata Katsuyori by KO at first round
• Melvin Manhoef won Kim Dae Won KO at first round
• Daisuke Nakamura won Jung Bu Kyung by KO at the second round
• Nick Diaz won Katsuya Inoue by KO at the first round
• Tatsuya Kawajiri won Luis Buscape by outvote
• Eddie Alvarez wons Joachim Hansen by outvote
• Caol Uno won Mitsuhiro Ishida by KO at the second round

The recent news of WBC Muay Thai has bees established brings the proud to many of Muay Thai fans. This represents that one of the biggest boxing professional body see the importance of Muay Thai and has set up the committee and management body to take care of Muay Thai seriously. Apart from that, this also brought many of Muay Thai organisations around the world become very active on promoting of Muay Thai in many regions all around the globe.
However, meanwhile many of us are enjoying this news, but the other side of thought mentioned that the reason why WBA has turned to officially support Muay Thai is due to business reasons (want to make more money from Muay Thai). However, no matter which reason, in my perspective, there still benefit to sport Muay Thai as it has more opportunity to emerge to the world, especially in the region that still has no idea of this beautiful martial art. You can also visit the website wbcmuaythai.com for more detail about this.

Sawasdee krub

UK and EU Muay Thai fighters and fans! It’s only 8 days to go for the SENI 08.

Like last year, TUFF Boxing will be there. See you at stand F1040.

** FREE Muay Thai badge for buyers **

SENI SHOW 2008
Sat 26th & Sun 27th April 2008
Excel London 9.00 am - 7.00 pm

See you there !

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