WBC Muay Thai Championships - March 12th 2006

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Did anyone go to this last Sunday?? It was at the Wembley Conference centre.
I was gutted to miss it because the other-halves parents were up.
Main Fight of the night was Stephen Wakeling (ENG) vs John Wayne Parr (AUS) for the WBC Midlleweight World Muay Thai Title. By all accounts, it was a great fight and there are highlights of the show on Sky Sports 3 tonight at 9pm (repeated later on and also tomorrow).

I've been training alongside Stephen and his brother Michael, at Scorpions in Epsom, since 1999 and his progress has been fantastic. At only 22, he now holds the WMC & WBC titles, and is also the current S1 Champion after winning that last August in Thailand. Michael is a few years behind Steve but he also looks like he will be another great fighter.
I'm looking forward to watching this evening even though I already know the result. If it's half as good as the WMC title fight against Ying Yai in 2003 (one of the best Muay Thai fights in the UK in the last 10 years), it's going to be great.

Just though I'd post in case anyone else was interested in it.... :)
 
Hey I remember going to see the Yin Yai fight in 2003. Cant remember the venue name because I had just tagged along with some guys from K-Star. Glad I did tag along. Was an awesome fight, although I personally think Yin Yai could have performed much much better. His arrogance got the better of him.

Despite the cockiness of Yin Yai, Steve maintained himself perfectly throughout the match. Very clinical in his execution and delivery
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I've mainly watched the UFC and Price, but haven't watched much Muay Thai, so I'll record it and watch it at the weekend. :)
 
CLAWS said:
Hey I remember going to see the Yin Yai fight in 2003. Cant remember the venue name because I had just tagged along with some guys from K-Star. Glad I did tag along. Was an awesome fight, although I personally think Yin Yai could have performed much much better. His arrogance got the better of him.

Despite the cockiness of Yin Yai, Steve maintained himself perfectly throughout the match. Very clinical in his execution and delivery
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The venue was York Hall in Bethnal Green. You're right about Yin Yai, and by the start of the 3rd round he had realised that Stephen was a serious contender and started to fight properly, but it was too late by then even with his dirty tactics :D.
 
went to a muay thai event in Thailand once , absolutely bizarre it was

decided to treat myself and get ringside tickets , cost me nearly a tenner :eek: :p

really entertaining in an odd sort of way , the first bouts on the bill featured kids of about 6-10 years old kicking **** out of each other :eek: , both sides put up a side bet which went to the winners

the main bouts were really competitive but my main memory is the noise , enough to make your head explode , do they have this wierd background music at events outside of thailand ?


have a video of this but its 70mb and have nowhere to host it and no idea how to compress it to a size for putfile etc :rolleyes:
 
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the main bouts were really competitive but my main memory is the noise , enough to make your head explode , do they have this wierd background music at events outside of thailand ?
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They play the Thai music during competitive fights in the UK at least, and we train with it in the background as well. I'm used to it now, and have to admit that I kind of like it :o. As far as I know, there is no script to the music they just change the volume and tempo in relation to what's happening in the fight.
 
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