Muay Thai Stuff’s Blog

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 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