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Round 1
I could not see the difference between two of them at this round. They seems have equal ability and skills to fight, I even encourage John was a little bit better than Yod Saen Klai, in terms of defensive techniques such as grab legs and kick blocks. But when things happens, John got down by a very hard punch, which the announcer mentioned that it was a luck for Yod Saen Klai, but I would see different when John is losing control of his defense when tried to grab Yod Saen Klai’s leg, and Yod Saen Klai obviously saw the opportunity.

Round 2
This round is like a clock-wise situation, I don’t know why Youd Saen Klai lost his control as he seem to be able to keep the situation under control. But when he got a big “set” of punch from John, Yod Saen Klai is no longer advantage. Based on my own analysis, Yod Saen Klai seemed to under estimate John’s ability to recover and skills. This may be due to he believe that he will easily overcome John from the punch that took John down in the first round. And when John had realised the situation that he could bring back the advantage, then many sets of punch keep following. The last minute of round 2 is very important for John, he was shot down again with the obvious that he is losing his power, Yod Saen Klai’s opportunity rise again.

Round 3
Round 3 looks better for John, but also to Yod Saen Klai. Seems both of them were a little bit more careful on what is going to take as they know that one of them could be knocked at any time. While John was using this round to relax and he hope to recover and give his full power to the last two round, Yod Saen Klai seemed tried to finish the fight as soon as possible. The situation like this demonstrated that apart from power, good fighters always work on “strategy” throughout the fight.

Round 4
Round 4 was not exciting as expected. I was supposed to see more aggressive and advanced techniques from both of them but it looks they are completely losing power to fight. Especially for Yod Saen Klai. Once he know that he did very good job for the first two round, then it is unnecessary to hurry or put himself too aggressive, which may be giving John opportunity to strike back. While John was also lack of power, but still looked for a chance to make miracle.

Round 5
John had nothing to lose at this round and he actually did very well and impressive. But it seems not good enough to become a winner. Using clinching and short punch were very good strategies for at the end of the match while the fighter know that he is almost lost the power, but Yod Saen Klai was too good. Tried not to join the clinch and keeping away to find opportunity to attack, this strategy had made Yod Saen klai is the top winner of the Contender Asia. The result of the fight proves that perfect fighter still exist, even though is tournament was just a TV show in any perspective, but the fight is the fight and Muay thai fighters are not for the TV shows they are all fighters who want to fight, no matter what’s it that for.

by Kru Brooks Miller

More and more, striking martial arts styles are merely becoming a series of supplementary techniques to complement a submission grappling game. In the world of MMA, having a good ground game is critical to one’s success. It is very rare that a fighter is able to dominate as a striker, because in most cases, a determined grappler will eventually get hold of a striker and get them to the ground.

There are some notable exceptions, however. In the world of the UFC, Anderson Silva, who does happen to hold a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, is also a former Muay Thai champion, and has dominated many fights with his striking skills alone.

On the local scene, I’ve begun to see a few strikers dominate their opponents using pure Muay Thai skills. Case in point was an MMA event I was officiating on March 15th. Two fights stood out on this card, where Muay Thai was the name of the game….

In the first match, a tall, lanky Muay Thai stylist used his reach and footwork to “peck” at his opponent, keeping him off balance and unable to close the gap. While he was a tentative fighter, he still was able to keep his opponent at bay with quick jabs, push kicks, and round kicks. When the fight finally went to the ground, his opponent was so out of his original game plan that he found himself submitted with an armbar by a Muay Thai fighter.

The beauty of MMA is that it is constantly evolving. Currently, the name of the game is to have a good ground game while learning a few striking techniques to round things out. But as more and more fighters with solid Muay Thai backgrounds enter the MMA ring, the shift will continue towards more of a balance between grappling and striking.

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The Genius Muay Thai

This fight is actually not surprise me that much about the genius ability of Samart Payak Arun. This because I am the real fan of Samart and have seen many of the fights like this that he performed. But for some of you who may not familiar with him and would like to see what ‘s really called “genius Muay Thai” then you should look at this fight. Murat Comert was just incredibly has excellent Muay Thai skills, his punch, footwork, foot-thrust were nearly perfect and I am sure that there only few people could beat him, but not for Samart. Samart used only 2 rounds to beat this clever guy with the supreme excellent skill.

This is the good fight between Rafik from France and JWP from Australian in Conternder Asia Episode 3. JWP won by point.