How does one actually become a Lumpinee/Radja champion?

[TonyK]

Sorry for being a noob, but I actually never understood the Thai stadium format. Are there organizations? Tournaments? Title fights? Some kind of league? Some chronology of champions? I searched the snot out of google for that but never quite managed to understand it.

 

[Hemmmmmo]

Probably tournaments

 

[DastardlyMass]

there are a couple of promoters for each stadium who sign and match up the fighters. Each stadium has its own rankings based on results of the fights as well as there own champions for each weight class. http://www.muaythai2000.com/indexen.php has a list of champions as well as the stadium rankings

 

[Deleted member 363827]

Probably tournaments

This is why you don't believe every thing you read from random people on the internet.

It is like boxing or mma, you beat the champ in that weight class and you get a belt.
Read the post above me for more details.

 

[Cocakillbana]

Start fighting as a kid, win a bunch of fights, beat better fighters, get noticed, go to Bangkok and beat even better fighters, keep winning and you'll probably eventually get a title fight.

 

[MarloStanfield]

just rock up on fight night, sign up and then you just bang man, thats what ive heard.

 

[AndyAlong]

is TonyK = tony king?

consider raja or lumpinee an organization, win alot, work your way up the ladder, get noticed eventually fight the champ and win the belt. Cocakillbana summed it up pretty well. Although you can buy a title shot for like 50,000 baht in some cases, when I was at kaewzamrit, Tobias Alexandersson paid for a title shot against Lamsonkran chuwattana, at Raja. Dont know the details exactly but i think that is more when you have a name already and arent thai.

 

[whitesport]

This is why you don't believe every thing you read from random people on the internet.

It is like boxing or mma, you beat the champ in that weight class and you get a belt.
Read the post above me for more details.

There are more than enough non-title fights, otherwise Tongchai OR Diesellek would be Lumpinee champion now and not Alamos.

 

[DastardlyMass]

consider raja or lumpinee an organization, win alot, work your way up the ladder, get noticed eventually fight the champ and win the belt. Cocakillbana summed it up pretty well. Although you can buy a title shot for like 50,000 baht in some cases, when I was at kaewzamrit, Tobias Alexandersson paid for a title shot against Lamsonkran chuwattana, at Raja. Dont know the details exactly but i think that is more when you have a name already and arent thai.

probably his promoter had to pay the sanction fee for the title fight. this is why guys only defend title once or twice a year and not every fight.

 

[AndyAlong]

probably his promoter had to pay the sanction fee for the title fight. this is why guys only defend title once or twice a year and not every fight.

ahhh yes ofcourse his coach was there, and anan the gym owner, his promoter, was taking care of it. makes alot of sense never knew that before, thanks kru

 

[Samurai Life**]

there are a couple of promoters for each stadium who sign and match up the fighters. Each stadium has its own rankings based on results of the fights as well as there own champions for each weight class. http://www.muaythai2000.com/indexen.php has a list of champions as well as the stadium rankings

Pretty much.

Some guys get kept well away from the titles though, I can think of a couple of unpopular ones... good though, I don't much like the cut of their jib either

Probably tournaments

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