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[IanEdwards]

Yeah Freddie has like 25 fights so not surprised they arent throwing him to the wolves yet, especially with a name like Haggerty.

i got no problem with that but i bet you there will be at least 3 or 4 better fights on that card rather than having a novice vs a scrub as the feature fight. One are so transparent

 

[SuperLuigi]

True lol Its kinda interesting that the product is mostly for a Thai audience but they still do stuff like that to attract international fans. I wonder if another fight gets labeled as feature fight for the Thai language broadcast.

 

[IanEdwards]

• Komawut FA Group vs. Alexey Balyko (Muay Thai – 140-pound catchweight)
• Petwichit Singha Mawynn vs. Sonrak Fairtex (Muay Thai – 139-pound catchweight)
• Petsansab Sor Jaruwan vs. Dabdam Por Tor Tor Thongtawee (Muay Thai – strawweight)
• Jaruadsuk Sor Jor Wichitpadriew vs. Amir El Dakkak (Muay Thai – 140-pound catchweight)
• Sirichok Sor Sommai vs. Tanachart Por Patcharawat (Muay Thai – 130-pound catchweight)
• Yodsinlapa Rodsuayjajed vs. Tienngam Nakbinalaiyon (Muay Thai – 117-pound catchweight)
• Freddie Haggerty vs. Kaoklai Chor Hapayak (Muay Thai – strawweight)
• Padejsuk NF Looksuan vs. Hiroyuki (Muay Thai – 122-pound catchweight)
• Ke Jingjun vs. Yugo Kato (Muay Thai – strawweight)
• Nongfahsai TOP PK Saenchai vs. Moa Carlsson (Muay Thai – 122-pound catchweight)
• Lee Seung Chul vs. Van Nam Pham (MMA – strawweight)
• Yu Gao vs. Zemfira Alieva (MMA – strawweight)

I can see why One were so late announcing the card for tomorrow (only announced about 40 hours before the card starts). I mean, Sonrak is a OFF stalwart and an entertaining fighter to be sure but he has a 4-4 record against mostly moderate opposition for a reason

top to bottom that is by far the weakest OFF card yet, main event, co-main, featured fight are all fucken weak and there are a load of debutants/unknowns beyond that

they must have really been struggling to fill this card- is the relentless weakly pace taking its toll? also, i wonder, are the bonuses making some of the Thai fighters (i hesitate to say it) lazy? just in the sense that 10k/350k baht is such a big number for them, they feel they can afford to fight 3x per year instead of 6x ?

 

[IanEdwards]

as 'weak' as the card is sometimes the cards with loads of debutants/unsung fighters turn out to be very exciting in terms of the fights (if a bit low on quality) and the KO's often rain down

 

[Mickf]

What a joke the freddie haggerty fight was. Kaoklai was fighting ten pounds above his best weight. Couldn't even make the weight.
Just a joke what is the story with giving both the haggerty brothers size advantages to help build them up. Its like boxing shennanigans.
Interesting they never did the same to Liam harrison even though he would have a bigger following.

 

[IanEdwards]

What a joke the freddie haggerty fight was. Kaoklai was fighting ten pounds above his best weight. Couldn't even make the weight.
Just a joke what is the story with giving both the haggerty brothers size advantages to help build them up. Its like boxing shennanigans.
Interesting they never did the same to Liam harrison even though he would have a bigger following.

Freddie can replace puric as my One whipping boy, fuck Freddie

 

[SuperLuigi]

Not surprised they are building Freddie up, I dont really mind as I'm just happy to have a farang who can actually compete at the stadium weights. He looked good in round 1 but got too wild after that.

 

[IanEdwards]

as I expected it was a very low-quality OFF, i haven't bothered to watch the Komawut fight yet but up until the Dabdam fight i didn't feel like there was a single fight with two competent operators in the ring, and the Dabdam fight was basically about 8 minutes of clinchfuckery.

 

[IanEdwards]

Not surprised they are building Freddie up, I dont really mind as I'm just happy to have a farang who can actually compete at the stadium weights. He looked good in round 1 but got too wild after that.

One are pushing it like fuck

3 Reasons Why Freddie Haggerty Could Be The UK’s Next Muay Thai Superstar​

fuck One and fuck Freddie. I can't wait till the applecart gets upset on this one, he's not that good for 19 I have seen better at his age.

 

[IanEdwards]

actually i did just remember, Sonrak was by far the technical highlight of the night- which tells its own story

I'm pretty sure he is the most-improved fighter in OFF. I think his record has improved in direct relation to more sympathetic matchmaking but still, he's game as fuck and in the wasteland that was OFF91 he stood out by quite some way.

 

[Mickf]

One are pushing it like fuck

3 Reasons Why Freddie Haggerty Could Be The UK’s Next Muay Thai Superstar​

fuck One and fuck Freddie. I can't wait till the applecart gets upset on this one, he's not that good for 19 I have seen better at his age.

Agree 100%. The reason i got into muay thai originally was because it was egalitarian and especially in Thailand it was.
Whats funny is freddie is from england. Who have probably been the most fair with match making and scoring in recent years when it comes to english guys fighting guys from other countries. Much more fuckery in France, Oz, netherlands and Russia etc.
So if Freddie was in England they wouldn't be giving him such size advantages etc.

 

[IanEdwards]

not much buzz for OFF92, I can understand it as its the least sexy of the Big OFF Cards they have put on, but still there are some really interesting matches IMO

• Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong vs. Shadow Singha Mawynn (Muay Thai – featherweight)
• Suakim Sor Jor Thongprajin vs. Panrit Lukjaomaesairwaree (Muay Thai – 140-pound catchweight)
• Songchainoi Kiatsongrit vs. Yodnumchai Fairtex (Muay Thai – atomweight)
• Panpayak Jitmuangnon vs. Egor Bikrev (Muay Thai – flyweight)
• Sibmuen Coach Nay vs. Abdulla Dayakaev (Muay Thai – bantamweight)
• Rak Erawan vs. Koko Sor Sommai (Muay Thai – atomweight)
• Marat Grigorian vs. Abdelali Zahidi (Kickboxing – 159-pound catchweight)
• Maisangkum Sor Yingcharoenkarnchang vs. Watcharaphon PK Saenchai (Muay Thai – 121-pound catchweight)
• Liu Mengyang vs. Masaaki Noiri (Kickboxing – featherweight)
• Anissa Meksen vs. Kana Morimoto (Kickboxing – atomweight)
• Rittidet Sor Sommai vs. Shimon (Muay Thai – 132-pound catchweight)
• Nathan Bendon vs. Elbrus Osmanov (Kickboxing – bantamweight)

Bendon - Osmanov, Bendon puts some good pressure on and has some success with the hands but Osmanov keeps it long range for long enough to bore-win on pts. he will spam a few unsuccessful spinning attacks though which the commentators will love

Maisangkum, its a funny one, decent fighter but he's had about 7 fights and wins mostly stoppages and none of them at a particularly high level, if he gets a contract it would be without a single testing matchup. Despite his great workrate and decent footwork, sooner or later a good puncher will take advantage of his defensive flaws, he has been punched clean in the face quite often, but watcharapon isn't that dude and i almost think is a showcase to give Maisangkum the easy KO (and maybe contract?)

I can't see any result beyond Gregorian brutalising the green MT guy under KB rules, foul matchup if you ask me, the dude is getting walked the fuck down from second one, watch his eyes, they will show how uncomfortable he is very quickly after he bounces a 5 punch combination off Gregorians guard and gets backed up. and repeat, and repeat. and repeat. He's got a good kicking game? oh, that's cute, and he's going to have the space to utilise it for all of about 15 seconds of the fight before the cliff falls on him.

Rak v Koko is a decent one, Koko did well enough in 2 goes at Khunsueklek in the early OFFs to suggest hes a good outside technician and Rak had real trouble with Yodnumchai with a similar style

Dayakaev will come forward like a toy car with only one gear hurling punches and will 'outwork' Coach Nay whilst taking plenty of counters, repeat of the Harrison fight


Songchainoi vs Yodnumchai may be the match of the night IMO, fascinating style clash, Song is genuinely explosive with power to add to his pressure, but he has shown a little versatilty fighting Rak mostly off the back foot last time out. Yod has also won both on front foot and back foot- my guess here is he will try to back Song up and control his hands with the sticky long guard like he did to Rak, rather than doing the sit-back-and-counter style he often used to great effect against Tubtimthong. However I don't know if Song will passively let him disrupt the guard as much as Rak did- certainly he should be more prepared for the tactic which Rak just didn;t have an answer for. Song is the kind of dude I'd hate to fight but if i was fighting i would never want him to build up a head of steam on the front foot as his hands are explosive as well as very active and once he starts throwing combinations its very difficult to remain unscathed, teeps and leg kicks and footwork is the recipe and Yod has generally been pretty good at maintaining range.

I will go with Yodnumchai on pts here, Song has heavier hands but Yod's hands are very accurate and he takes brief opportunities for counters superbly, but Song is never out of the fight if he's on his feet and really this is as close to 50-50 as it gets IMO

same goes for Panrit - Suakim
Suakim fascinates me, hes got that gaudy 3-time Lumpinee Champ record, but if you take his fights so far in OFF, Panrit has clearly been superior with:
body kicks
leg kicks
elbows from clinch
*defence against punches* my god I watched Suakim again last night, within 30 seconds on the Balyko fight he reminded me why he makes me wince just watching him, he pulls his head straight back from punches, his chin is in the air when he is throwing or exchanging at close-mid range, i mean literally any puncher has got like 50-50 shot of at least knocking him down, Suakim has been stopped twice and knocked down/hurt in pretty much every One fight he has had, that fucking chin in the air, its painful to watch.
panrit on the other hand has that chin nicely tucked into the chest almost all the time

I *think* with Suakim, I guess he must have changed his style for One or its less suitable for him than traditional MT? like, I literally don't see what made him a 3 time champ, but he has mostly been fighting punchers and seems to have tried to beat them at their own game with a lay-back-and-counter tactic, he has literally never tried to establish a kicking game to offset the punchers he has faced, he has tried countering with the hands (with varying success, obviously, although he has shown decent sharp counters himself
so actually fighting a Thai may bring the best out of Suakim, will be interesting to see if he actually has any kind of outside kicking game because Panrit in his last few fights has done a great job of dominating with the heavy body kicks and controlling distance with the teeps and knee-lift feints. I almost feel like trying to forecast Suakim against a Thai rather than a punch-heavy farang is a whole new ball game. One thing I do know, if he tries punching it out with Panrit and going heavy at him, he's getting knocked down at the very least as Panrit is sharp with the opportunistic counters and as I say does a great job of burying that fucken chin.
I really hope Panrit wins here as I really like him, I'll call it to him but lets see how Suakim approaches a fellow-Thai who likes to fight from mid-long range. If Panrit *does* establish his kicking game watch for him to chain the kick/feint-kick into a punch, he's good for a KD or KO with that.

the other fights I haven't seen one or other of the fighters enough to comment, really.

 

[IanEdwards]

oh and bravo One, I have seen they are making what to me is the most obvious match in the organisation, Anane vs Nabati (winner clearly fights Nico/Superlek).

given his decent-sized frame and deadly hands Nabati is along with Nico probably the only fighter i would actually back against the freaky Anane, albeit i can't call Anane beating anyone in the division a shock. will be very interesting to see how Anane approaches it, i'd guess he won't be as confident/aggressive early on until he feels hes got Nabati's timing down as Nabati only needs one chance for lights-out.

 

[Trupsi]

Man, what the fuck was that ref doing in the Marat-Zahidi fight ?

 

[machida90]

Man, what the fuck was that ref doing in the Marat-Zahidi fight ?

That was really weird, Zahidi was doing great in the first round.
So sad to see Panpayak losing to that way against that russian guy.

 

[Trupsi]

That was really weird, Zahidi was doing great in the first round.
So sad to see Panpayak losing to that way against that russian guy.

Yes he was, Marat as usual, was going forward trapping him in the corner but with not much volume trying to select his shots but Zahidi was landing way more kicks, punches, knees. And that stupid ref was too harsh, it's not like he was holding Marat's head for 5 seconds. He completely put him out of the fight and eventually Marat worked his way with powerful combos.

Yeah I feel 4oz MT vs those Russians is a bad recipe for Thais.

 

[Trupsi]

Sittichai vs Shadow was a very good fight.

 

[machida90]

Sittichai vs Shadow was a very good fight.

this fight really saved a terrible card, finally we saw a great display of muay thai

 

[IanEdwards]

this fight really saved a terrible card, finally we saw a great display of muay thai

yeah, it wasn't a great card for matchups with all the early KOs.

Suakim - Panrit was excellent, though.

I personally thought that even through the ref's intervention in the Gregorian fight was premature, he kind of saw the writing on the wall, that pressure from Gregorian was too much for the other dude to handle in KB rules and IMo he would have got stopped within 3rds whatever happened (either that or hang on to clinches for dear life if the ref had permitted)

I thought Bikrev did a fantastic job threading his knuckles into the only available gap of Panpayak's defence for the KO- you can't criticise Panpayak's defence, he had his right hand well up, Bikrev just found the tiny gap very well in that crazy kick/punch exchange from both of them, he was clearly using a tactic of trying to counter Panpayak's kicks with his punches so he earned that IMO

I knew Mainsangkum's leaky defence would get him sparked sooner or later

oh and as a general comment, Dem fucking Russians, Dem hands.

 

[machida90]

yeah, it wasn't a great card for matchups with all the early KOs.

Suakim - Panrit was excellent, though.

I personally thought that even through the ref's intervention in the Gregorian fight was premature, he kind of saw the writing on the wall, that pressure from Gregorian was too much for the other dude to handle in KB rules and IMo he would have got stopped within 3rds whatever happened (either that or hang on to clinches for dear life if the ref had permitted)

I thought Bikrev did a fantastic job threading his knuckles into the only available gap of Panpayak's defence for the KO- you can't criticise Panpayak's defence, he had his right hand well up, Bikrev just found the tiny gap very well in that crazy kick/punch exchange from both of them, he was clearly using a tactic of trying to counter Panpayak's kicks with his punches so he earned that IMO

I knew Mainsangkum's leaky defence would get him sparked sooner or later

oh and as a general comment, Dem fucking Russians, Dem hands.

probably Grigorian would have won the same way, but the referee made Zahidi lost his confidence. The guy was doing great hitting Marat going backward(he landed 3 or 4 high kicks in Marat’s face) till the referee started to be a protagonist(we have seen way worse things during One kickboxing fights).

That was really the most disgusting thing I have have ever seen during a fight to see a referee that in the second round was yelling to a fighter “that’s a ok shot” threatening him of a possible DQ.