Muay Thai with MMA gloves - MUAY XTREME

[Luigi]

This is a new promotion set up in Thailand. They do MT with MMA gloves and pretty much every fight is Thai vs foreigner. The pace is much higher because of the frantic small glove punch exchanges. Many brawls. The event even got Yodpayak, the 154 lbs Lumpinee champion. To top it all off they have a Thai death metal song that is basically their version of "Face the Pain"

[Edge Guerrero]

- The scene is exploding with kick-boxing and muay-thai events. I guess the MMa boom ended being good to other martial-arts competition after all.

[Luigi]

I think when K-1 went bankrupt and stopped doing events for a while it left a big vacuum for KB, and now its finally being refilled to its former glory.

[Edge Guerrero]

I think when K-1 went bankrupt and stopped doing events for a while it left a big vacuum for KB, and now its finally being refilled to its former glory.

- I don`t get how they let K1 fall.

[Luigi]

I think when K-1 went bankrupt and stopped doing events for a while it left a big vacuum for KB, and now its finally being refilled to its former glory.

- I don`t get how they let K1 fall.

My understanding is that in Japan there was a general shift away from combat sports in the culture, which is funny to think about because they still love combat sports way more than most nations. Not long ago I because friends with a Japanese guy and when I asked him about K-1 he loved the old days of Aerts, Hoost and Masato. I asked him if he was a Takeru fan and he had no idea who he was. I tried to show him the new Japanese stars but he just had no interest. Apparently its common for Japanese culture to go through phases like this.

[Edge Guerrero]

I think when K-1 went bankrupt and stopped doing events for a while it left a big vacuum for KB, and now its finally being refilled to its former glory.

- I don`t get how they let K1 fall.

My understanding is that in Japan there was a general shift away from combat sports in the culture, which is funny to think about because they still love combat sports way more than most nations. Not long ago I because friends with a Japanese guy and when I asked him about K-1 he loved the old days of Aerts, Hoost and Masato. I asked him if he was a Takeru fan and he had no idea who he was. I tried to show him the new Japanese stars but he just had no interest. Apparently its common for Japanese culture to go through phases like this.

- I`ve read this before the fall of K1, that they change taste very fast. There`s good Japanese fighters on ONE, so maybe they can like japanese fighters but not necessary a japanese promotion?
Been watching ONE the last couple of week`s.

[Luigi]

JWP's last fight from Caged Muay Thai just got uploaded a few days ago. Vs Canadian rasta man: