Currently Reading: Muay Thai

The phrase “train like a Thai” is so legendary that it is literally scrawled into the cement at the famous Lanna Muay Thai camp in Chiang Mai. The romance of the notion is, of course, that...

About the Fighters: Candy vs Fah This fight on October 28, 2016 was a big test for both of these fighters, but in different ways. Fah Yokkao is the daughter of the famed trainer of Saenchai, Manop,...

Ranked 1st and 4th in my Best Fighters in the World at 48 kg and Under On the 14th of November, 2016, the much-anticipated and highly-negotiated Female Fight of the Year (maybe many years) is taking...

Sparring is not always “light and technical” in Thailand, read about that My chest already feels like it’s being squeezed by a fist from taking a nearly full-power, flying knee to the sternum as I was up...

Watch the full hour and a half session as a $1 supporter here Gen and Joe are twins and were fairly well-known fighters in Bangkok in the early 2000s. Their fight names were Hongthong Noi (Joe)...

June 28, 2016 – Loi Kroh Stadium, Chiang Mai This was the 3rd fight in 4 days, the previous two had been KO victories for me, so I felt tired, sore and pretty good. The afternoon...

above, the first time in print Thai press gave me a fighter’s nickname Thai fighters have many names. There’s the given name at birth, then the “play name” that is universally used, then a fight name...

June 27, 2016 – Chiang Mai Boxing Stadium “the Roadhouse” – full fight video I saw Pi Daeng at Lanna the morning before this fight and he said he’d never seen this opponent before. When we...

I have never seen this before in my four and a half years in Thailand. One of my favorite moments ever in the gym. This kid stands about 3 feet tall, barely as tall as Pi...

June 25, 2016 – Chiang Rai – full video above This was the first of 3 fights in 4 days up in the North. I had no idea who my opponent was and when we got...