Currently Reading: Chiang Mai

  • Eighteenth Fight – Phetkarat Phettonphung

    June 21, 2012
    This fight was a rematch with the girl I fought for my 15th fight and who beat me.  I must admit, I was nervous for this fight – before I knew who I was fighting –...
  • Seventeenth Fight

    June 10, 2012
    When I first looked across the ring at my opponent she looked much bigger to me.  I thought she was taller and her legs looked big, but once we met in the middle to tap gloves...
  • Sixteenth Fight – Payaksaw Phettonpueng

    May 27, 2012
    I’ve been back in Thailand for six weeks and this is my fourth fight in that time.  I lost the two previous fights for reasons that had more to do with mental blocks than physical technique,...
  • Fifteenth Fight – Phetkarat Phettonphung

    May 21, 2012
    This fight was frustrating.  I’d just lost in a similar way to my previous opponent, with her backing up and me unable to close the distance for my strikes to land.  The similarity between my previous...
  • Fourteenth Fight – Phetngamta Jit Aree Gym

    May 21, 2012
    This opponent’s Ram Muay was the most beautiful I have seen and I recommend that you watch it. She is an amateur boxer for the Thai National Games so her punches were really quick, tight and...
  • Thirteenth Fight

    April 20, 2012
    My first fight back in Thailand and I was anticipating some ring rust.  Having no idea what to expect from my opponent and having been in Thailand for two weeks, I didn’t know what to expect...
  • Third Fight

    February 16, 2010
    Chiang Mai – Loi Kroh – February 16th, 2010 February 16th was my second fight in Chiang Mai, again at the Loi Kroh stadium. This fight was much different from my last in many ways –...
  • Second Fight

    February 2, 2010
    Chiang Mai – Loi Kroh – February 2nd, 201o This is my first fight in Thailand, at Loi Kroh Stadium in Chiang Mai.  I was so nervous, not knowing what to expect at all.  But the...