dtrick924
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Thanks so much for taking the time to do this analysis. These trends are fascinating to look at.
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I hate the ridiculous posturing and manufactured grudge matches of MMA. Although, I found Joanna Jedzrejczyk and her pasta necklaces pretty funny. I think she's my new favorite MMA fighter. Some day I will get up the courage to try muay thai out for myself but today is not that day. I agree that having a story/personality behind a fighter is important, although I can't stand reality television so the only parts of TUF I watched were the fight replays. Having said that, I wish I could find a way to watch the Enfusion reality series that Iman Barlow was in. I mildly follow Angela Hill because I know she and Sylvie fought as amateurs. It's interesting to see how wildly their careers diverged. I ran across a hi-light reel from Angela the other day that had a few quick flashes from their fight. Back when the fights happened Angela and her camp wouldn't let Sylvie post the full fights on youtube.
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MTG: The Curious Case Of “The Phantom Casual Fan Offensive” in Muay Thai and Kickboxing Interesting article about growing casual fans of muay thai in the west. I became a casual muay thai fan via feminism and women's empowerment. I stumbled across a bjj blog, Jiu Jiu's BJJ Blog. Started reading that, she linked to Sylvie's blog, 8limbs.us and the rest is history. I've also started following MMA. I'm not particularly interested in any of the male fighters though. Came for the bad ass women, stayed for the bad ass women. I'm the kind of bad fan that isn't gonna make anyone any money though. I do my fight viewing via youtube/reddit gifs. I don't buy PPVs or merch. I do feel slightly guilty about that but I'm not hardcore enough to need to see a fight live. Especially since most fight cards only have one women's match which is what I'm interested in.
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MTG Podcast: Champ Tiffany Van Soest Discusses Her Training Camp For Lion Fight 23 Haven't had a chance to listen yet but wanted to share. I wonder if there will be an interview with Martyna as well.
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MTG: Can You Learn Muay Thai From Youtube? Nice shout out to Sylvie's youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/MasterKMuayThai
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Fightland: JOANNA CHAMPION'S STRIKING CLINIC We were discussing Joanna's loss to Duannapa Mor. Rattana Bundit at World Muay Thai Angels in another thread and how styles, rules and judging make fights.
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Sylvie gave a good explanation of the Thai scoring from a thread she posted on reddit.
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Interview with Tiffany Van Soest.
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Really cool to compare this to Joanna's MMA fights. This reddit link has most of her professional MMA fights. One thing I noticed is that Joanna seems to get stuck against the cage in the clinch. I know Sylvie has talked about western fighters, especially women having a weaker clinch game due to lack of instruction/opportunity to practice. ETA: I get used to the Thai refs breaking up the clinch after watching all Sylvie's fights. Then I watch MMA and wonder why the ref isn't breaking it up and resetting the fighters when nothing is happening against the cage or on the ground. Of course I don't really know the rules of MMA. Reddit link to Jedrzejczyk vs Penne.
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Interesting article from Muay Thai Guy, The Cult of Personality: What Muay Thai Needs to Learn from Ronda Rousey
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Lion Fight 23: TIFFANY VAN SOEST vs. MARTYNA KROL via Martyna's facebook page. Super excited for this fight as I follow both fighters on social media. They have very different styles so it should be an interesting match up.
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Wombat Sports podcast
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MTG 084: Building A Muay Thai Gym in Issan, Thailand with Frances and Boom Wattahanaya GoFundMe for building the gym.
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Found this video and article via Muay Thai on The Brain's facebook page. "Boxing journeymen: sport's biggest losers or unappreciated artists?" Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "professional" fighter and what records really mean.
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No just the clip on Indigogo. It looks like an interesting story though, especially that they are fighting out of an all female gym. Unfortunately the fund raising doesn't seem to have gained much momentum so I'm not sure how widely they will be able to distribute it.
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I was surprised by the outcome. I was expecting Bernise to win it in the clinch the way Caley Reese did when she fought Tiffany. Bernise looked much stronger in her previous fight against Tanya Merrett. I like Tiffany as a fighter, she has a really interesting style. It was great that she was able to improve her fight game so that she could control and score in the clinch.
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Micc's blog. Micc, I'm really enjoying what you've written so far.
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The bidding is up to $12,600. Fame is a crazy thing.
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Congratulations! Fight of the Week on muaythaiathelete.com.
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Press Release
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A video interview by the The Asbury Park Press about head coach of the Girl Fight gym, Prairie Rugilo.
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This article talks about using "autoregulation" to adjust your daily training.
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