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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.

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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.

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

See you there !

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Let’s see what is happening around the globe for Muay Thai event. These events will be organised mostly in European countries. Thank you http://www.muaythaitv.com for pictures and information

IFMA European Cup 2008
Date: From Thursday 27 March 2008 til Sunday 30 March 2008
Münchried-Sporthalle
Münchriedstr. 6
78224 Singen
Germany

Gala de Carces
Date: On Saturday 29 March 2008
Salle Oustaou Per Touti
83570 Carces
France

La Notte Dei Gladiatori
Date: On Saturday 29 March 2008
Centro Esposizioni di Lugano
Viale Campo Marzio
6900 Lugano
Switzerland

DANGERZONE
Date: On Sunday 30 March 2008
Zonnehuis
Zonneplein 30
1033 EK Amsterdam
Netherlands

WASKO World Kickboxing Championship
Date: From Monday 28 April 2008 til Wednesday 30 April 2008
Cairo Stadium
Nasr City
Cairo
Egypt

Le Choc des Mondes III
Date: On Saturday 12 April 2008
Pasino
Rocade Nord
59230 St-Amand-les-Eaux
France

Battle of the South: part 6
Date: On Saturday 12 April 2008
Sporthal de Biessen
Gravin van Schönbornlaan 4
6433 AZ Hoensbroek
Netherlands

Stage avec Cyril ABIDI (K-1) en Suisse
Date: From Saturday 12 April 2008 til Sunday 13 April 2008
Salle de la Planta 2
Av. Petit-Chasseur 1
1950 Sion
Switzerland

Saenchai Sor Kingstar, The great fighter from Sarakham VS Rachid Belani
This time, it is obvious that Sanchai is smaller than Rachid, but when they both were on the fight the situation became Saenchai was the person who gain advantage over Rachid. As he was too slow to attack as well as ineffective in defense and let Saenchai attacked him by using many types of Muay Thai weapons, which bring Saenchai win the fight and make Thai team led to 3-0 points.

Malaipetch won but courious.
Malaipetch who supposed to fight with Marco Pique but Marco did not make the fight so his replacement was Dennis Sedmiller. This fight was very interesting when Malaipetch seemed losing advantage losing advantage through the fight. Dennis was very good fighter and perform very well attacks and made Malaipetch losing control many times. But when the result was Malaipetch was the winner, there are a lot of criticisms about this by the Dutch fans.

Anuwat Kaewsamrit VS Hassan ait Bassoun
The result if this match is draw but Anuwat should deserve to be the winner when he could take his opponent down for counting. This may be due to Hassan was very well during round 4 when he gave flying knee kicks to make Anuwat bleeding until the doctor would want to stop the fight but Anuwat could survive until the end of the match with a draw.

Yodsaenklai lost!!
Yodseanklai Fairtex vs Andy Souwer. They fought by using K-1 rules and only 3 rounds. Both of fighters has very equal skills until got the draw result at the end of the third round and they had to make extended time until Yodsaenklai lost to Souwer.

Translation report from Muay Siam Magazine

Great Muay Thai fighters perform very well in Netherlands in SLAMM tournament, March 2008.

Tops Muay Thai fighter team, again received 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 lost to the fighters from Netherlands. The event was held on Super Sport Almear, Netherlands. The great “Saenchai Sor Kingstar” one who is known as “unbeatable” perform excellent fight, meanwhile “Yodsaenklai Fairtex” lost to the opponent with courious, as same as Anuwat Kaewsamrit who took the opponent down for counting but got draw for the result. There were about 5,000 audience for this event which organised by SLAMM Event Production. There were six fights for the tournament when five matches used full Muay Thai rules except the fight of Yodsaenklai which only had 3 round and elbow was not allowed, and these are the fight results.

Narupol, teach the art of knee kick to opponent.
Thai hero from the Contender Asia, used his powerful kicks to make his opponent, Fandi Mersa, nearly fall down during the third round but Fandi could survive through the end of the third round. But at the beginning of round 4 Fandi refused to continue the fight then Naruepol won by KO and made Thai led at 1-0 point.

Samranchai 96 Peenang VS Menno Dijkstra
The second match between Samranchai 96 Peenang and Menno Dijkstra. This was another fight that Thai fighter performed very well, even though Menno tried his best to fight among his fans cheer him up but Samranchai was too good. But Menno however, still was able to stand until at the end of fifth round and lose point to Samranchai.

Songchai Rattansuban, the great Thai promoter, again had made the significant Muay Thai promotion overseas by organised S-1 World Championship in Greece on March 2007. The event went very well and successful and now, again for Thai people to hear that, Thai fighter won the title. Nopparat Kiatkamthorn or “ Khun Kao Pak Ok” one of the great fighter won S1- title by making 3 consecutive wins to the fighters from France, Bulgaria and eventually beat the Belarus fighter and won the title.

Siraphop Rattanasuban, the leader of Thai fighters fleet said that in this tournament was divided into 2 groups, A and B. Group A consists of Greece, Romania, Belarus, Cambodia and group B consists of Thailand, France, Bulgaria and Sweden.

The result of the first round in group A was that Belarus was the winner of this group ad the winner for group B was Nopparat from Thailand. Nopparat’s first fight of the first round was he could beat the opponent from France, won the second fight over the fighter from Bulgaria and went through the final round. In the final round, Nopparat had to fight with the fighter from Belarus. When the final match began, it was obvious that Nopparat was over the fighter from Belarus, he could easily won by score at the end of the match and received the title as well as earning 13,000 USD.

After the tournament, Mr Siraphop revealed that the tournament went very well and over expectation of the promoter. This may be because there has been no big Muay Thai competition carried in This country before so it has become to majority of people’s attention.
He also plans to held this event again in the next four months and also has a long-term plan to held this event throughout the year.

Hello

I have been informed by the promoter of this event. If you are in Argentina, this should be interesting. The message below is from him (in Portuguese)

Hola! , queria avisar que falta solo 1 mes para el Torneo de Muay Thai Profesional del año. En el mismo estaran peleando el mismo dia los 8 mejores competidores del Pais donde se irán eliminando hasta quedar un solo ganador. Te esperamos, no te lo podes perder !!. Saludos

Miguel

MTA

mas info: www.muaythaiargentina.com

Hello everyone, I am back from Greece. The event was good fun. I had a good chance to take the VDO very close to the ring. Thank you very much to Khun Pariyakorn Ratanasuban and her family for a great opportunity.

The belows are the video clips of the final fight: THAILAND vs BELARUS. A complete event report will be posted soon.

S1 Muay Thai World Championship 2008 FINAL
THAILAND vs BELARUS

March 7th, 2008
Loutraki, Greece

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Even though this fight, Nopparat was the winner, but it might not an easy job for him during round 1 and 2 I could not see any different between both fighters. This is just because the fighter from Belarus (blue corner) had very best of his skill on footwork and punching so he could use his speed to fight with Nopparat. I can also occasionally see the blue corner’s clinching skill and he did very well. Nopparat, how ever seemed to be very relax of this fight and I think that the fight was very friendly too. The impressive moment for myself to this match when they both fighters clinching and fall off the ring, and when they climb up and came back to the ring and hug each other. May be this tournament gained the most benefit of making people enjoyable and ware of the art of Muay Thai