Hong Hao v Wanluotala

This is a match from the very first Sanda vs Muay Thai match that took place in 2001. Surprisingly in this first encounter knees were allowed and were scored 2 points, which is the same for a side kick. Other scoring techniques are equal one point each. Elbows not allowed. I got these info from http://www.angelfire.com/sd2/kingofsanda/sandathai.html.

I don't know anything about both fighters so if anyone knows anything, please let me know. According to the website above, all the fighters must at least be state or provincial champions in their respective weight classes. The Thai fighter is really good with throws! That must have really surprised the Chinese team.

Btw for you guys that didn't know, Yuxian09 is my youtube user name. I have other fight video clips that you might find interesting to watch so check it out.

Iron Hands of Siam - Anuwat Kaewsamrit HL

Anuwat is a top Thai fighter known for his devastating heavy punches. This HL clip shows why. What an awesome HL clip thanks to EriveProductions. Enjoy!

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Sanshou training in China

Interesting clip of sanshou training in China. The facilities shown is very well equipped and spacious! It also looks like from the brief focus mitt punch work that they are training to improve their punching skills. The Chinese sanshou fighters are normally known for having bad boxing skills. I wouldn't mind training in one if I'm in China.

Farid Khider - 12 Rounds Feat Tunisiano

Farid Khider is a savate fighter who also fights in Muay Thai. He's ought one time in K-1 Max for a victory iirc. I remembered he was qite impressive in his K-1 Max. Totally dominating the fighter with a very unique style of fighting.

Savate is a French kickboxing style where they wear hard pointed shoes to fight. In Savate you are only allowed to kick with the instep/ shoes. Kicking or shin checking is illegal. There are no thai style clinch allowed, no knees, no elbows and no catching kicks. Due to the limitations, savateurs as savate stylist are called tend to have good movement, footwork and combinations.

Quite afew savateurs have crossed over to Muay Thai with good success like Fraid Khider here,. You can always tell them by their movement and striking. I enjoyed watching his K-1 match. It's surprising he hasn't fought again in K-1 knowing the fact he has the skills and the looks (very important in K-1 Max!).

K-1 Max Japan 2009

Ok enough with the recent MMA action lately. I'm starved for some K-1 action! On the 23rd Feb will be the K-1 Max Japan tournament. Check ut the poster and lineup below. Quite a few new names in addition to the more established names from Japan. Watch out for the new guys Hinata and Yuichiro Nagashima. Hinata is the first welterweight champion of a new Japanese kickboxing promotioon called R.I.S.E which ave been said to be like a feeder show to a K-1 career. Nagashima is the champion from another kickboxing organisation the New Japan Kickboxing Federation (NJKF).

Kido is the K-1 Max Japan 2008 champion who had a brilliant K-1 Max run before he was stopped in the quaterfinals last year. Hope he continues to improve and shine again this year. Kohiruimaki is back yet again. Note his given name is now Taishin instead of Takayuki. I don't know why the name change. Maybe he wants to give his career a new fresh start. I hate this guy. The way he carries himself is very tryhardish...watch the way he walks. I also disliked the way he carries himself in the ring, being quite unsportmanslike on a number of occasions, eg. against Buakaw he caught Buakaw's kicking leg and kicked Buakaw's supporting leg on the front around the knee area. As some of you would know that seemed to pissed Buakaw off and he promptly got manhandled to a humiliating defeat. He was originally a very Thai style fighter relying on kicks and clinching & knees. Ironically because of the arsekicking Buakaw gave him, the rules were changed to prohibit the clinch and knees which though were mainly to disadvantage Buakaw also greatly afected him. He has horrible punching skills and never seemed to be able to improve his hands resulting in a string of bad losses so far. The African fighter is Andy Ologun, who lives and work in Japan thus his inclusion in the tournament. He is quite a promising fighter but I think haven't shown his true potential yet.

If they show the opening matches, guys watch out for Garyu. This guy is a retard. He likes to pose in Japanese gangster stare down style when the referee callsthe fighter to the centre of the ring for the rules. Does he even train? His physique doesn't look like that of a trained pro fighter. I've seen him get smashed in three K-1 matches so far.

Hard to tell who'll take this year's Japan Max. I haven't seen the new faces fight yet. Based on what I know, Kido will take it. Hope he wasn't a one hit wonder.

UFC 94 - GSP vs BJ 2

It was really hard finding a video of this match. UFC is really uptight about their matches being shown on the internet. But at last I've found one uploaded on youtube. It comes in four parts. Hope it doesn't get taken down anytime soon. Enjoy!

"Smoking" JOE FRAZIER- Monumental Left Hook

Time for a boxing clip while I wait for a vid clip of the GSP vs BJ match to be available to post. Joe Frazier is one of my all time favourite boxing champion. Here's an excellent highlight clip of him showing his superb left hook mainly from his match against Muhammad Ali. He's one of my favourite not only because I love his left hook and bobbing & weaving style but because he was one of the smaller heavyweights out there. I'm usually the smaller guy in the ring as well :)