Finished Fight–Lost but good fight- Tiger Muay Thai

Doctor808 Red trunks May 9 fight Tiger

This was my first fighting in over two years, so in that respect  I felt I “did ok”. I had a bad injury discussed elsewhere so I was out of muay thai  for a while.  It was at my gym at one of the now famous Muay Thai Smokers at TigerMuaythai.

My opponent was  equally matched, neither of us in ideal cardio- shape that would have made the fight  more interesting and both of us a  bit heavy. He the brawler, me with perhaps better technique. The referee judge awarded  the fight to my opponent.

I reviewed the tapes after my Kru Doug Owens told me where my big error was and as usual he was correct,  which I could easily see from the replay.

My opponent a very nice guy , local boy (twentyfive to thirty years younger than I ?) fought a very eclectic style. Spin fist, some power punches and some type of kicks which were not technically well done. As I predicted, he was using the Hawaii Style of a onslaught of barrage. I always have trouble with these barrages,  because frankly they wear me out quickly.  No damage or pain involved but just tiresome to defend. Then when I try to analyze how to counter another irritating barrage comes my way. The bottom line is I was not in shape for an onslaught Hawaiian style.  This means I will be working on my cardio more intensely. My coach said it best , you looked good the first round, but you were out of it by the second as far as energy goes.

Well he is right in that I did not have the energy to move my tree trunk legs for good kicks and relied on hands– but with a barrage there is no time to set up.  I saw so many openings for a good kicks,  but could not take advantage of that due to lack of juice in the latter part of the second and third rounds. 

The other energy I had lost was with the what appeared to be a continuing , almost mma grappling  thing , we ended up in. I am simply a stand up guy and we spent as much time on the ground or tangled up in the ropes as we did exchanging blows. This is simply not my style and I have to expend a lot of energy with this. Energy I did not have to spare. There is actually one point in the fight where he does a “piledriver”,  thats when he falls down backward grabbing me and drives my head into the ring  like seen on wild world  of wrestling (my god I am not a wrestler). 

The bottom line is my heavy weight and cardio endurance if better I could have taken advantage of  his wide open gaps for kicks but seeing them easily does no good if you no energy to take advantage does it?

Bottom line I lost , not by any slaughter  or significant gap. It was good,  but sloppy match. He landed more punches and some kicks , mostly blocked, but none had any power to do damage, I landed more powerfull blows,  but less of them. The fight may be  equally matched,  but I am too out of shape to endure his style of Hawaiian brawling. That will be taken care of , as I realize my coach is right. I am still not sure what to make of the piledriver move where he bounced me on my head—Yet this  is standup Hawaian style.

I will try to review some of the other fights in the next segment. I must say that these “smokers” at  Tiger Muay Thai are fun exciting and some great fighters and their skill are seen. I hope this will continue with support from other gyms. You should come to next one. 

Doctor808