This comment triggered me from the flashbacks I got from this.... But made me laugh endlessly when I realized I did the same thing in Mortal Kombat yesterday 🤣
@@kamo7923 hahahahhah we all did this at some point. When I saw all those same lowkicks slowly draining the health points out of his opponent in the video I couldn't help but to think of those moments in fighting games xD
+jose Calderon i honestly thought he was done and it was over when that shot landed, it was nasty!!! props to him for getting up and then winning the fight.
+jose Calderon Most thai people who are doing muay thai are only doing it as a living as a poor child in thailand but some got heart and made it far too
Roufus is someone I've been friends with for some time now, showed his heart. Changpuek is someone I have only briefly met, but is a seemingly humble guy. One thing we need to remember is the fight was NOT a Muay Thai fight. (No clinch, knees, throws, or elbows. Just leg kicks) Changpuek also showed great heart and sportsmanship. He could have went to the head with any kick after the second round but was told not to. This was a time of no TH-cam internet etc. The take away is both men showed what they are made of. I also commend Jeff "AKA Duke" for retracting his post fight statements and embracing the art of Muay Thai.
The Muay Thai boxers fight plan was simple. Focus on attacking their American opponents legs. If your legs are injured, you cannot continue fighting as you can no.longer stand up. The American kick boxing champs had no answer to those hard kicks to the legs and thighs which hurt so bad that as one American kick boxer describes it :"your eyes feels like popping out every time you got hit by those low kicks". That was how the Muay Thai boxers wore down their American opponents.
no you are absolutely wrong, he have way more dangerous techniqe but the only move allowed is low kick, its not really a tactic, its more like the rules crippled 90% of his muaythai, what else can he do, its not even a muaythai to be honest, its only muaythai low kick but he still won, you can only call it a muaythai martial art if you can use all the techniqe, but this is only low kick and to call it a muaythai is so wrong and disrespectful, bcause muaythai is not only martial art, its a important piece of their tradition
HawaiianWarrior100 Only for the first two months. After that they lose a lot of their shock value. My back only just recovered so I felt my first leg kick in over a year last week and it was like someone had tasered me in the thigh. The way I'm recovering I think I'll be able to stand through a whole round of conditioning in about three weeks. Going to be three miserable weeks.
@@generalkayoss7347 Are jabs in boxing considered cheap? If you can use it to your advantage, why not. I see no difference between jabs in boxing to low kicks in kick boxing. J/S
had the pleasure of watching muay thai,in bangkok a few times,and in the sports bars,when they ask the big foreign men to have a go,i've fought a lot of fights,but i would never be so stupid as to get in a ring with muay thai,all the foreign men were destroyed in seconds,much bigger men chopped down and sent back to their friends crying in pain.muay thai is the best.
Ye for sure cause its a different sport. Would be the same as letting Muay Thai fighters fight a MMA match where they would be destroyed by anyone with a little bit of wrestling/grappling skills.
Damn so none of the americans ever fought a bout with low kicks allowed.. Did they at least have some lowkick experience/training? Up to a point I think experience plays a big part in being able to ''take'' lowkicks. I remember walking like a cripple and being sore for days when I first started training and that was only from sparring (with shin pads) lol. I can't imagine what it must be like to take your first real lowkick, in full force, from a world class thai fighter. Must'v been terrifying.. it really is amazing that they managed to stay on their feet for so long. Those were some tough dudes for sure.. btw funny how urquidez mentions that he tried to block a lowkick with his hands. I think like 99% of all fighters instinctively try that when they start messing around with legkicks for the first time (me included haha) great vid as always
Jimmie Spaargaren For sure these guys are tough fighters. I too remember my first full power kick on the heavy bag, these guys made them look so easy and painless.
Jimmie Spaargaren My life could be separated into two parts. The part where I thought "how much could a low kick really hurt?" and the part where I no longer thought that.
Jimmie S. "Have you ever seen one of these toys that when you squeeze it the eyes pop out? Well that's how I felt", I think this explains pretty well, and honestly I don't want to try it xD I loodek for it when I was younger, I had no chance and now I'm fine!
Yeah if i remember long ago. I remember certain kicks below the body was not allowed. But it also didn't help that because of those rules, some places that taught kick boxing, totally never taught barely to no low kicks. Because it could not be used in most tournaments back then, especially in U.S. But i am glad these fighters from other countries got to fight. Slowly Mixed martial arts was generating over time.
I spent some time in Thailand years ago,and I am a huge fight fan,and former fighter.I spent many nights at this large bar in Pataya watching fight after fight.The fights went on every night,with the weekends getting the best fighters.The fights were brutal my any standard.Often the referee would lift the guy up off the canvas when he was dropped so the fight would go on.The sad part was that at the end of each bout,the winner would walk with a cup to the seated customers asking for money,but the loser just went home without being allowed to ask for money.
This is why I'm not too fond of the fighting sports. I love em for the excitement, but the human cost is just too crappy for my tastes. Some people see fighting - boxing, muay thai, etc - as their ticket out of poverty, but the truth is your win will send somebody back to the slums, and they might not ever recover, physically or spiritually.
Biggest lie. People know what type of a Fighter an opponent is! Which country they are from? And what there specialisation is! And the least if fighters don't know, they organiser do. So in the end what a petty lie to say Muay Thai was a fighter. People don't simply travel across the sea to pick fight without some doing some research
@@jimmiller6007 ok sir ill enlighten you...…. Muay Thai was NOT even known in the USA at that time period matter of fact if it wasn't for the illegal orientals migrating into the USA via cali nobody would have known period that a fighter from Thailand even knew how to kickbox there was ONLY 1 organization at that time in the USA and that was the PKA but just to further educate you Benny Unrquidez not only fought 6-7 Thai opponents he beat 5 lost to 1 via decision and had this NC he also went on to beat and KO every Japanese fighter he faced including the fighters who had fought in Thailand and were Muay Thai champions that's documented my friend do some research and you will find gold and your welcome
@Jim Miller ..... were you even alive at the time? I was. Benny was a hometown Hero & I saw him fight Point Karate to Full Contact, as it was called at the time. One of my older siblings trained with Sensei Benny. So you YoungBlood are presenting bovine excrement. Respect the Man & the Pioneer. Without a doubt there was no Thai Fighter who had the hands that Benny did. Benny was one of kind generational fighter that needs to be seen from the time he fought
@Omega Doom ..... One reason Benny never went to Thailand is that they couldn’t promise his safety leaving the ring. No doubt had he fought in Thailand the Thais would’ve rioted. Notice how they never came to Japan or Australia to fight him? I saw Sensei Benny fight live numerous times growing up. One of my older brothers trained with him & was part of The Jet Center. He was a Hometown Hero & was truly a Pioneer & once in a generation Fighter
The lethal Thai low kicks are just the tip of the iceberg, what is below and unseen by American kickboxers is the most disciplined training, rigorous beyond any kickboxing one, most devoted and resilient fighters to learn, Thai warrior mindset. If you think just the low kicks won these matches, you are tremendously mistaken.
The condition and mindset us Thai fighters have is unimaginable even for even an ex pro fighter. I did Muay Thai so much, so long that I didn't even realise it. It's actually a bit scary.
Every time Buakaw gets on the fight… they play his favorite song about the people in Bang Rajan village that would fight against Burmese soldiers even though they know hundreds of people can’t stop more than ten thousand of soldiers with full weapons. They really think they are going to fight for the country, for their king, for their pride.
I've seen this before, but edited. I didn't realise the Thai boxer in the first fight took such a tanking at the start. Two indescribably tough fighters.
Interesting that no one has mentioned the efficacy of Sensei Benny’s Hip Toss. *THE JET* earned his Dan in Judo under the Legendary Gene LeBell. He would go on to stop numerous Opponents with that technique; separating shoulders & knocking out fellas. Conversely he had a devastating Jump Spinning Back-kick to the liver that would just end fights.
Thank you Lawrence Kenshin for posting the the videos you do, and to the legends in this video who with out their courage to fight Thais I would have without a doubt not spent the last six years of my life training and fighting in Thailand. ขอบคุณมากจริงๆ ผมไม่มีคำที่จะแสดังสิ่งที่ผมรู้สึกหลังจากผมดูคลิบนี้นะครับ ผมแค่อยากให้คนรู้ดีว่าผมรักเมืองไทยแล้วผมรักมวยไทย แล้วคลิบนี้ให้ผมมีกำลังใจที่จะเป็นนักมวยคนต่างชาติที่จะมีชื้อเสียงทั้งโลกพี่น้องรอดูนะครับ จำชื่อเจค็อบไว้นะครับผม
ImAgamer--then why add muai thai? If it's kickboxing!!..Thats asking for trouble!! ..rules were clearly set for rick..but still even with commentator/rules on his side...still couldn't pull it off Rick will never forget that little thai kid that put him in his place😂😂😂🤣🍻 when he gets up in the morning and his legs and knees are stiff, ill bet he remembers that thai kid, American kickboxer (full contact) Muay thai (1/2 contact) Lmfao, who u think was supposed to win?
@@rev_80m13 your talking like that Thai kid is a joke he's one of the best muay Thai trainers in Thailand and one of the first aswell he trained alot of champions
Lmao, what dummies. I practise my sprinting and endurance running everyday. Good luck trying to catch me to fight you. You cannot lose a fight if you never fight.
@@earthswonderman5128 m not saying kicking with leg m talking about kick in leg. In ur thai area. U won't understand if u r not from a full contact martail art
woow the most amazing video"!! that why muay thai is the most brutal martial art' even with this i saw ufc fighters that dont know how to block a kick".... i will share this video
It may not look good but the low kick hits like an axe. I have seen so many other martial artists go down after a couple of hits and quit after realising that they were just going to keep taking damage. I am stunned at Roufus’ ability to take so many hits. He have been at the absolute pinnacle of his discipline. Incredible. Thanks for sharing.
if you watch Shaolin Monks do their "kung fu stances", some of their stances informs you that wrestling take-downs are useless to them in a 'real fight'. Shaolin monks and their horse stances, they can go really low to the ground and still very very balanced. The rock grounds where they train are deformed. You can see how hard they stomp so if you think a 'karate chop' is lethal, imagine the "shaolin feet" which to anyone with common sense will realize how much tougher a feet is compared to a hand since the feet is supporting your whole body weight at all times standing. then, there's the shaolin monk's "iron body". their whole body is tough as metal, not just their shins. so, that means muay thai no use to shaolin monks. wrestling take-downs no use. you can't get near a shaolin monk.
we're talking about real fighting. not bitch ass rules to protect white men fighting in a ring. don't want to see you guys bitch and whine like Rofus's ignorant brother after the fight when Rofus got chopped down like a fucking tree.
heeheemanofHK it's already been tried in a few tournaments. shaolin destroyed everyone and the final was vs th e world's greates may thai. he won the first round easy. then something happened and in the end m uay Thai won. pretty cool fight
heeheemanofHK real fighting? Do ypurself a favor and learn what happens when muay thai fights jiu jitsu or wrestling. You find out really quick how shit muay thai is
jon doe idiot.... Muay Thai doesn't practice ground fighting. I could say the same like bjj vs Muay Thai but no wrestling allowed and bjj would get destroyed
Damn, Benny the Jet is a badass. This guy is trying to clinch with me? Judo throw him to the ground. I think he was the only western kickboxer that was able to deal with some Muay Thai fighters even though he had no low kick expirience. Great video!
+Greg G Lol. That Muay Thai guy had horrible defence against those throws. Makes me appreciate how lucky we are these days to have MMA where we have to learn boxing, kicking, wrestling, grappling to be complete fighters.
This is true ... unless you are checking the legs of a professional Thai Fighter who has trained for years kicking trees and lumber. Checking a kick with a raised knee works because it hurts the legs of the average kicker and breaks his timing. Now imagine checking a baseball bat with your knee, and everytime you did, the dude swings faster and harder... if you watch these matches, you can clearly see all the fighters were elite... the difference was the toughness of the tools.
Side horse stance is very vulnerable to outside leg kicks. Benny Urquidez used to use the forward stance against international fighters and kicked all of their asses. Cat stance is pretty effective in kickbox as well.
@@fishing4happiness610 You are correct. I learnt that in a Muay Thai camp in Thailand many years ago. It was fine checking leg kicks against someone of same ability, but against a Thai who had trained since the age of 4, and their legs were so conditioned. Of course, when they kicked they were so relaxed, like swinging an axe. And when they combined with feints to take your supporting leg out....I truly believe that all martial artists, like Karate, Tai Kwon Do etc should cross train in boxing, Muay thai etc. It is important to have eaten a few punches, so when it really happens, there is no shock factor, or turning away reflex.
Winklejohn got his ass whooped, Rofus went down, but not without a hell of a fight, and Benny... damm, he adapted so quickly to the lowkicks, blocking them correctly with his instinct an fight IQ, he truly was the very best back then. Not saying any of these guys are pussys or anything, they are legends for a reason. I've become addicted to your videos, excelent work.
aaaaaaa Benny Urquidez is the GOAT American kickboxer and one of the top 3 GOAT Kickboxers worldwide Roufas a great champion himself but Winklejohn? nope no even close to being a legend as a fighter himself but as a trainer in MMA hes done well
Benny Urquidez showed what he could do, had this been a real fight, let's say in the street , even though the Thai fighter was destroying his legs, one of Benny's Superior slams in the street, and it would have been all over with ! What a total fighter he was !
@@mellowx82 LMAO! Did you just say leg kicks/Thai Boxing techniques were NOT superior to American Kickboxing/heathen Colonist Bullshito? You just made me spit my juice all over the place! :)) Thanks for that:)) I can understand if you were comparing Thai Boxing leg attacks to REAL American martial arts of the Indigenous people; like Capoeira and Jiu-Jitsu but they have leg attacks all through them and are superior arts compared to privileged Albino colonist Bullshit Kickboxing.
But being honest. If Urquidez had the chance to grapple and throw then. The outcome would had been clear. I mean, i love Muay Thai. But against a powerful puncher plus black belt grappler....
Benny the Jet is an absolute legend along with Bruce Lee, Gene Lebell, Ramon Dekkers and the rest of them. It is really difficult to prepare for a style that you don't even know exist. Imagine a country having practised a sport for 50+ years that is boxing with groin shots and no cup allowed. Very difficult to prepare for, you have to knock the guy out quickly or have insane pain tolerance or both to win.
JIESUS He deserves more than just a cookie. Muay Thai was one of the biggest factors when Thailand was building its kingdom and waging wars with neighboring lands.
about the first fight there was no clinching so rufus had a huge advantage all the rules mostly was for him besides the low kicks since there was no clinching elbows or knees. Also rufus had what like a 25 pound weight advantage in this fight he looked huge compared to the thai guy
The problem was because the preparation, since I believed those American fighter didn't know into what rules they would fight. But even with the low kicks and elbows or knees, the Muay Thai guy also clearly was unprepared with the hip throws, single leg takedow and suplex that he received. So that's why cross training is really important nowadays.
In all these cases the American kickboxer had superior boxing while the Muay Thai fighter had leg kicks. Clearly, leg kicks work, but what is the real take-away? It's work the shit out of your boxing and work the shit out of your Muay Thai. More weapons is always better than less weapons. Great video BTW!
+kaguth In all those fights the Thai did not use more than 50% of their arsenal, i did not see any clinch, knee nor elbow ... would the Thai be allowed to fight with knee elbow and clinch all three would have ended with KO/TKO much earlier.
I see a bunch of idiots talking shit about how a Muay Thai guy won here...lmao if you guys allow him to use his full arsenal such as elbows or knees or clinch takedown or throw, This fight would end wayyy sooner than this. Just remember that Muay Thai was used in war back then when they lost their weapons, it's meant to kill not for sports lol xD
if Changpuek had the other arsenal of thaiboxing, throws, elbows this would have ended earlier. But he fought his bigger opponent on kickboxing terms and he kicked ass. I don't understand peoples crying about this match. This is how you win a fight, you use what you can and you exploit your opponents weakness.. period! and Changpuek continuing after a broken jaw and knocked down twice, that's heart, and Roufus that kept on fighting though clearly hurt as hell... jeez, two superhuman fighters. Hats of to you both.
Hello everyone. The 3rd fight is also on TH-cam, the one with Benny Uriquidez. Some things were interesting about that fight. First, that match lasted nine rounds, and it was well fought, but seemed relatively even matched. Second, I thought the throws were a reaction to the low kicks, but Benny was using some of them early in the match. Third, Benny didn’t use them as often, but at one point he was throwing his own low kicks, knocking the Thai fighter down with one of them. I was also seeing some Muay Thai style clinching, and the occasional knee thrown. Didn’t see any elbows, however. Four, there must have been a lot of Thais in the audience, because you could hear the cheers every time the Thai fighter threw a kick. The Thai fighter did connect near the end with a kick to the head that knocked Benny down, and the video ended shortly afterwards, so I didn’t see if there was more to the fight or if the riot happened soon afterwards.
Man huge respect to the kick boxer he took a lot of leg kicks with the shin and still was able to walk tough.I also training muay thai and after 3-4 leg kicks i cant take them anymore my quads just giving up.
American kickboxing leaves guys in long shiny pants saluting the crowd, Muay Thai leaves guys being dragged off into the hospital to get their legs repaired.
+DancerInTheHeart that is why american kick boxers get their ass kicked, seriously what a whimpy person u are, u are thinking abt health issues i hope u never get into a fight with a thai fighter cause then u will have real health issues, u idiot
Jason Brusch The thai people are not exactly known for their physical strength. It is a country where a significant percentage of men identify as part woman. The reason they may do well is because in their boredom and desperation resulting from living in squalor they wreck their bodies since childhood and develop a care free fighting style that sometimes is strong enough to overcome superior technique and intelligence. The american kickboxer most likely has a life apart from the sport and does not pick fights right after a concussion like they do in Thailand. With that said I have a lot of respect for the olympic boxers of Thailand who have often done well in the olympics competing in the toughest martial sport of them all, which is boxing. Those who suck in boxing can find consolidation in a large number of far more obscure fighting arts like thai boxing and kickboxing as the level of competition is far lower.
Many people don’t realize the living legend status in Benny Urquidez, all these guys, Thais and US are legends, at that time if the elbows were allowed the damage to the US guys would have been even greater , but all said and done, Benny is in my opinion important to martial arts as Bruce Lee
KB Strategy: Similar to boxing, lots of positioning, combos, try to avoid kicks if possible, deflect if not possible. MT Strategy: Kick his legs until they don't work anymore. I always love these videos, the MT guys are always sharks in the ring. The are so determined, so solid, they seemingly shrug off most hits. And then they just relentlessly pursue their opponent around the ring.
Fantastic video, as always. Great, historic footage I've never seen before in two of those cases. It's a trip seeing the dude fighters call "Coach Wink" in fairly reverential terms get taken apart by low kicks like that. Kind of like watching early Bas Rutten in Pancrase, before he had a submission game - the evolution of a fantastic fighter starts in a pretty unassuming way, sometimes. Thanks for all the superb content. I'd love to see you do some analysis on more Dutch kickboxing, or some similarly in-depth MMA fight and striking analysis. That said, seeing the Thai fighters that I wouldn't really know about otherwise is pretty neat, too.
SAagreedSA Thanks a lot for the kind feedback! Yes I can't quite do MMA footage, you can look to Jack Slack and Robin Black for that. As for Dutch Kickboxing, it's well on its way :)
Awesome! I look forward to it. I noticed toward the end of the legendary low kick fight that Rick was trying to counter by spinning into a backfist. I was impressed by his creativity and I can kind of see what he was trying to do, but it really tells you just how out of the blue the Muay Thai fighting style's more well-rounded striking must have been. He had no idea, no clue at all how he might try to defend that, and his offensively-oriented thinking could only come up with "try to hit him back somehow, if he's spinning you around turn it into a punch!" - like a more sophisticated version of a dude getting low kicked for the first time deciding to try to just low kick back. It must take a great deal of work to be able to effectively check low-kicks. Not something even a great fighter like Rick could invent, spur of the moment, clearly. I have never seen a fighter in any promotion, under any rules, discover mid-fight how to check leg kicks correctly - if the offensive leg kicker gets five or six off into one leg, that seems to be enough cumulative damage to rob movement effectively. I'm kind of surprised leg kicks aren't more prominent, given how effective they are. Riskier than punches, I guess, it's pretty easy to punish a naked leg kick if the kicker isn't extremely fast?
SAagreedSA Yes indeed, these type of historic matches have made the low-kick defence and low-kick ready stance one of the first things learned in KB/American MT/MMA Urquidez was able to last and check some kicks, and he tried to kick back to meet leg checks and he admitted that hurt like hell. Spinning around off a low kick is risky, but one that Uriah hall does in sparring (the spinning heel hook kick) off being low-kicked. for most fighters it only takes a few good ones to maim them. in MMA, fighters don't spend nearly as much time conditioning their shins, but also they need to sit down heavier to prevent takedowns, hence why less low kicks and less leg checks
It dosnt matter what style of fighting you take up. it depends on the fighter, not the style. In chinese we say most important is 1. fierce mongrel. 2. strength, 3. fighting style.The main aim to knock down your opponent first (streetfight)
Brutal. I think this shows that the Thai fighters simply condition themselves way more than the Kickboxers do. If the kickboxers were to condition their legs to withstand constant low kick impacts they'd be able to win in a match of kickboxing rules. It goes without saying though that with Thai clinches, elbows, knees etc the kickboxers would suffer brutal beatings.
bruh this fight was like 45 years ago nobody outside of Thailand knew what Muay Thai was by the early 90s Muay Thai had already spread thruout the USA and you don't see that anymore at all and it was Benny Urquidez going to Japan and Knocking out all their top fighters which heavily influenced the Dutch again that's facts
When you abuse that one combo that makes your friends mad at the game
This comment triggered me from the flashbacks I got from this.... But made me laugh endlessly when I realized I did the same thing in Mortal Kombat yesterday 🤣
@@kamo7923 hahahahhah we all did this at some point. When I saw all those same lowkicks slowly draining the health points out of his opponent in the video I couldn't help but to think of those moments in fighting games xD
Leg spamming.
That idiot Roufus didn't have enough brains to counter that ONE combo and had to be stretchered OUT!!!!
😂😂😂
That dude got his jaw broken and still recovered to keep fighting. Now that is a tough dude!
+jose Calderon i honestly thought he was done and it was over when that shot landed, it was nasty!!! props to him for getting up and then winning the fight.
+jose Calderon Thai boxers are known to be very tough, they train in the hot sun, just let everyone know it.
Khai Lee Yeah I have seen videos of them training. Amazing stuff.
+jose Calderon Most thai people who are doing muay thai are only doing it as a living as a poor child in thailand but some got heart and made it far too
by the way his jaw was not broken by that punch. just watched this fight in another post
Roufus is someone I've been friends with for some time now, showed his heart. Changpuek is someone I have only briefly met, but is a seemingly humble guy. One thing we need to remember is the fight was NOT a Muay Thai fight. (No clinch, knees, throws, or elbows. Just leg kicks) Changpuek also showed great heart and sportsmanship. He could have went to the head with any kick after the second round but was told not to. This was a time of no TH-cam internet etc. The take away is both men showed what they are made of. I also commend Jeff "AKA Duke" for retracting his post fight statements and embracing the art of Muay Thai.
The good thing about Western boxers is after they learnt the lessons, they have open minded to from the opponents.
Same thing happened in Thailand after Dekkers came in and won there. They really respected him.
True successful people respect other’s success. The success comes from learning from your mistakes.
Not at first, took awhile
When you get crap beaten out of you, you learn fast.
I think any great person has that mindset. They learn from things that they cannot conquer. And that's what makes them great.
changpuek basically walked in and said "if you're going to break my jaw, I'll break your legs"
thats why its called my tigh
@@flowrepins6663 lmao😂😂😂 I forgot this joke thanks for the lime light
"That kick landed with such power even my ancestors felt it man." lmao
You break my talk! I break your walk!
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Hahahaha haha.... 👍
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Lol
I would love to see a photo of Ricks legs two days after this fight.
His legs has broken.
he is in serious problem when he wants take a shit next day.
thai philosophy ''break them from bottom''
@Paul Littlehales or rory mcdonald after fighting Douglas lima
he couldn't walk for 2 weeks
"That kick landed with such power even my ancestors felt it man"
-benny urquidez
At least he appreciated it. This shows that he has an attitude of learning new things everyday.
Benny urquidez best man.
Thais work out low-kicking palms and bamboos... So
The Muay Thai boxers fight plan was simple.
Focus on attacking their American opponents legs. If your legs are injured, you cannot continue fighting as you can no.longer stand up. The American kick boxing champs had no answer to those hard kicks to the legs and thighs which hurt so bad that as one American kick boxer describes it :"your eyes feels like popping out every time you got hit by those low kicks".
That was how the Muay Thai boxers wore down their American opponents.
no you are absolutely wrong, he have way more dangerous techniqe but the only move allowed is low kick, its not really a tactic, its more like the rules crippled 90% of his muaythai, what else can he do, its not even a muaythai to be honest, its only muaythai low kick but he still won, you can only call it a muaythai martial art if you can use all the techniqe, but this is only low kick and to call it a muaythai is so wrong and disrespectful, bcause muaythai is not only martial art, its a important piece of their tradition
This is a well done video. I can tell you all are passionate about fight history.
+Raymond Tsang thanks!!
O muay thai é bem mais forte
Anything worth doing is worth doing right
Those leg kicks were just murder
HawaiianWarrior100 Only for the first two months. After that they lose a lot of their shock value.
My back only just recovered so I felt my first leg kick in over a year last week and it was like someone had tasered me in the thigh. The way I'm recovering I think I'll be able to stand through a whole round of conditioning in about three weeks.
Going to be three miserable weeks.
Throwing nothing but leg kicks is the equivalent of lay and pray in MMA.
@D J It's just a cheap way to win. Like lay and pray. Or a sucker punch in boxing after the break. Does it count? Yes. Is it cheap? Also yes.
@@generalkayoss7347 Are jabs in boxing considered cheap?
If you can use it to your advantage, why not.
I see no difference between jabs in boxing to low kicks in kick boxing. J/S
@@generalkayoss7347 u sound dumb
You chop down a tree from the botton and rest will fall..
First of all ,Changpeuk was about 25 's lighter and 8 inches smaller.
Rick Rufus turned out to be bulled by a smaller fighter
nahai diew WOW that just show huh much power this Muay Thai fighter
had the pleasure of watching muay thai,in bangkok a few times,and in the sports bars,when they ask the big foreign men to have a go,i've fought a lot of fights,but i would never be so stupid as to get in a ring with muay thai,all the foreign men were destroyed in seconds,much bigger men chopped down and sent back to their friends crying in pain.muay thai is the best.
ahahha the kickboxer has protections on the legs;)
"bullied" no, schooled on superior Technique? yes... Hence why he and his brother learned it.
Rick Rufus’s brother was quite a dufus though
If they are allow to use elbow and knee, they will win in the first round
Yeah, it'd definitely be a whole different game. If you add in throws and grappling take downs (like Benny tried to), it'd also change things up.
Bruh i think muay Thai is better then kickboxing but the American would have won if it was a real fight
Ye for sure cause its a different sport. Would be the same as letting Muay Thai fighters fight a MMA match where they would be destroyed by anyone with a little bit of wrestling/grappling skills.
Right.
That's why UFC exists.
Damn so none of the americans ever fought a bout with low kicks allowed.. Did they at least have some lowkick experience/training? Up to a point I think experience plays a big part in being able to ''take'' lowkicks. I remember walking like a cripple and being sore for days when I first started training and that was only from sparring (with shin pads) lol. I can't imagine what it must be like to take your first real lowkick, in full force, from a world class thai fighter. Must'v been terrifying.. it really is amazing that they managed to stay on their feet for so long. Those were some tough dudes for sure..
btw funny how urquidez mentions that he tried to block a lowkick with his hands. I think like 99% of all fighters instinctively try that when they start messing around with legkicks for the first time (me included haha)
great vid as always
Jimmie Spaargaren warrior spirit! aka crazy bamfs.
Thanks for checking out the video and the kind feedback :)
Jimmie Spaargaren For sure these guys are tough fighters. I too remember my first full power kick on the heavy bag, these guys made them look so easy and painless.
Jimmie Spaargaren My life could be separated into two parts. The part where I thought "how much could a low kick really hurt?" and the part where I no longer thought that.
Jimmie S. "Have you ever seen one of these toys that when you squeeze it the eyes pop out? Well that's how I felt", I think this explains pretty well, and honestly I don't want to try it xD I loodek for it when I was younger, I had no chance and now I'm fine!
Yeah if i remember long ago. I remember certain kicks below the body was not allowed. But it also didn't help that because of those rules, some places that taught kick boxing, totally never taught barely to no low kicks. Because it could not be used in most tournaments back then, especially in U.S. But i am glad these fighters from other countries got to fight. Slowly Mixed martial arts was generating over time.
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I spent some time in Thailand years ago,and I am a huge fight fan,and former fighter.I spent many nights at this large bar in Pataya watching fight after fight.The fights went on every night,with the weekends getting the best fighters.The fights were brutal my any standard.Often the referee would lift the guy up off the canvas when he was dropped so the fight would go on.The sad part was that at the end of each bout,the winner would walk with a cup to the seated customers asking for money,but the loser just went home without being allowed to ask for money.
dam (╯︵╰,)
This is why I'm not too fond of the fighting sports. I love em for the excitement, but the human cost is just too crappy for my tastes. Some people see fighting - boxing, muay thai, etc - as their ticket out of poverty, but the truth is your win will send somebody back to the slums, and they might not ever recover, physically or spiritually.
Shit...that's some sad story. I mean real life, for the poor people have to live like that.
S Ciprian Well we are all going to die anyway.
Brutal
"He thought Muay Thai was a fighter. So he agreed to fight "Muay Thai"."
Biggest lie. People know what type of a Fighter an opponent is! Which country they are from? And what there specialisation is! And the least if fighters don't know, they organiser do. So in the end what a petty lie to say Muay Thai was a fighter. People don't simply travel across the sea to pick fight without some doing some research
@@jimmiller6007 ok sir ill enlighten you...…. Muay Thai was NOT even known in the USA at that time period matter of fact if it wasn't for the illegal orientals migrating into the USA via cali nobody would have known period that a fighter from Thailand even knew how to kickbox there was ONLY 1 organization at that time in the USA and that was the PKA but just to further educate you Benny Unrquidez not only fought 6-7 Thai opponents he beat 5 lost to 1 via decision and had this NC he also went on to beat and KO every Japanese fighter he faced including the fighters who had fought in Thailand and were Muay Thai champions that's documented my friend do some research and you will find gold and your welcome
@@omegasquad868 damm
@Jim Miller ..... were you even alive at the time? I was. Benny was a hometown Hero & I saw him fight Point Karate to Full Contact, as it was called at the time. One of my older siblings trained with Sensei Benny. So you YoungBlood are presenting bovine excrement. Respect the Man & the Pioneer. Without a doubt there was no Thai Fighter who had the hands that Benny did. Benny was one of kind generational fighter that needs to be seen from the time he fought
@Omega Doom ..... One reason Benny never went to Thailand is that they couldn’t promise his safety leaving the ring. No doubt had he fought in Thailand the Thais would’ve rioted. Notice how they never came to Japan or Australia to fight him? I saw Sensei Benny fight live numerous times growing up. One of my older brothers trained with him & was part of The Jet Center. He was a Hometown Hero & was truly a Pioneer & once in a generation Fighter
The lethal Thai low kicks are just the tip of the iceberg, what is below and unseen by American kickboxers is the most disciplined training, rigorous beyond any kickboxing one, most devoted and resilient fighters to learn, Thai warrior mindset. If you think just the low kicks won these matches, you are tremendously mistaken.
The condition and mindset us Thai fighters have is unimaginable even for even an ex pro fighter. I did Muay Thai so much, so long that I didn't even realise it. It's actually a bit scary.
Every time Buakaw gets on the fight… they play his favorite song about the people in Bang Rajan village that would fight against Burmese soldiers even though they know hundreds of people can’t stop more than ten thousand of soldiers with full weapons. They really think they are going to fight for the country, for their king, for their pride.
I've seen this before, but edited. I didn't realise the Thai boxer in the first fight took such a tanking at the start. Two indescribably tough fighters.
He had a broken jaw after that left from Roufus and continued to fight. Chanpuek had balls of steel.
"Im not afraid of a fighter practicing 1000 kicks, im afraid of a fighter that practices 1 kick 1000 times
- Bruce Lee -
Fuck B.L... he can only talk but can't fight. He is part of the low quality made in china fake kung fu shit.. have you seen him knock anybody before?
@@futuregold1 warning some tough wanna be keybord warrior here Who isnt éven known for rats ass.
@@futuregold1 If he does, that person will be dead, that's why you never see one before.
My ass!!! That poor guy was skinny as f... He never prove anything. You guys are watching too much chinese kung fu movie and play too much game.
futuregold1 🤫
Interesting that no one has mentioned the efficacy of Sensei Benny’s Hip Toss. *THE JET* earned his Dan in Judo under the Legendary Gene LeBell. He would go on to stop numerous Opponents with that technique; separating shoulders & knocking out fellas. Conversely he had a devastating Jump Spinning Back-kick to the liver that would just end fights.
American champion sure did a lot of running last few rounds 😂
Wow that first fight! No words! THATS a champion!
"He thought the fighter was muay thai" I found that part so funny
Bullshit
Thai Ladyboy: " So you want to fight Muay Thai"
Urquidez - "Yes, I accept his challenge"
@@wrestler-kickboxer2524 Man, the disrespect Muay Thai practitioners get is unreal for the amount of effort they put into their art.
Me too
Thank you Lawrence Kenshin for posting the the videos you do, and to the legends in this video who with out their courage to fight Thais I would have without a doubt not spent the last six years of my life training and fighting in Thailand. ขอบคุณมากจริงๆ ผมไม่มีคำที่จะแสดังสิ่งที่ผมรู้สึกหลังจากผมดูคลิบนี้นะครับ ผมแค่อยากให้คนรู้ดีว่าผมรักเมืองไทยแล้วผมรักมวยไทย แล้วคลิบนี้ให้ผมมีกำลังใจที่จะเป็นนักมวยคนต่างชาติที่จะมีชื้อเสียงทั้งโลกพี่น้องรอดูนะครับ จำชื่อเจค็อบไว้นะครับผม
Jacob Heide Cheers Jacob. To the legends :)
Jacob Heide ทำไมพิมไทยเก่งจังครับ
+Jacob Heide ผมจะรอดู สู้ๆนะ
+Jacob Heide เจค็อบเป็นลูกครึ่งหรือป่าวครับ// ขอให้มุ่งมั่นพากเพียกในสิ่งที่มุ่งหมายนะครับ ผมเป็นกำลังใจให้คุณ
เป็นลูกครึ่งไทยหรอครับ ทำไมการพิมพ์คล้ายคนไทยจัง
It was even not full Muaythai style. no elbow, head lock knee,no push kick..
David Chang because it’s in a kickboxing organisation
ImAgamer--then why add muai thai? If it's kickboxing!!..Thats asking for trouble!! ..rules were clearly set for rick..but still even with commentator/rules on his side...still couldn't pull it off
Rick will never forget that little thai kid that put him in his place😂😂😂🤣🍻 when he gets up in the morning and his legs and knees are stiff, ill bet he remembers that thai kid,
American kickboxer (full contact)
Muay thai (1/2 contact)
Lmfao, who u think was supposed to win?
Kick boxing is bloody idiot
@@rev_80m13 The same reason you like to call people "kickboxers" and "MMA fighters" when they compete in thai fights.....
@@rev_80m13 your talking like that Thai kid is a joke he's one of the best muay Thai trainers in Thailand and one of the first aswell he trained alot of champions
When you play street fighter game, and only know how to do low kick
bfebrian low death kick
And you don't need anything else
Muay thai is more than just low kick. There are lots of restrictions like knee elbow clinch etc in this match
Sagat
COSMIC CHUCK yeah but if they allow those against that white dude I doubt he will still breathing after the match.
That's the power and the effectiveness of leg kick. It's also very important cz in streets fights u should not kick higher .
Lmao, what dummies. I practise my sprinting and endurance running everyday. Good luck trying to catch me to fight you. You cannot lose a fight if you never fight.
and kicking someone in the jewels is even better
@@earthswonderman5128 m not saying kicking with leg m talking about kick in leg. In ur thai area. U won't understand if u r not from a full contact martail art
@@rektifier6470 ya I know that but who is talking about street fight . M talking about professional fighting
wanna know what's funny? all of this would ended way sooner if only elbow and knees are allowed.
good argument
True
Why stop at that? Add guns and knives too.
Yea yea I was thinking "why he don't put a damn knee in his chin??? "
Then watch UFC.. Jon Jones destroy all of them.
woow the most amazing video"!! that why muay thai is the most brutal martial art' even with this i saw ufc fighters that dont know how to block a kick".... i will share this video
Letwei is the most brutal sir
Not a single leg kick was blocked that day.. I cant imagine how his legs looked after that
Bro u never block a Thai kick 😂 your best bet is jus trying to dodge them lol
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U know it hurts to block them too
Probably big bags of swollen blood and bone splinters 😂
On the bright side, his shins must’ve hardened like SOLID STEEL after that bout.
@@moneybaggettayungin8193 lol what? You check them? Are you afraid of a little pain lmao
It may not look good but the low kick hits like an axe. I have seen so many other martial artists go down after a couple of hits and quit after realising that they were just going to keep taking damage. I am stunned at Roufus’ ability to take so many hits. He have been at the absolute pinnacle of his discipline. Incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting this historical fights of the legends. It's really a good history.
muay thai the hardest stand up in the world
if you watch Shaolin Monks do their "kung fu stances", some of their stances informs you that wrestling take-downs are useless to them in a 'real fight'. Shaolin monks and their horse stances, they can go really low to the ground and still very very balanced. The rock grounds where they train are deformed. You can see how hard they stomp so if you think a 'karate chop' is lethal, imagine the "shaolin feet" which to anyone with common sense will realize how much tougher a feet is compared to a hand since the feet is supporting your whole body weight at all times standing. then, there's the shaolin monk's "iron body". their whole body is tough as metal, not just their shins. so, that means muay thai no use to shaolin monks. wrestling take-downs no use. you can't get near a shaolin monk.
we're talking about real fighting. not bitch ass rules to protect white men fighting in a ring. don't want to see you guys bitch and whine like Rofus's ignorant brother after the fight when Rofus got chopped down like a fucking tree.
heeheemanofHK it's already been tried in a few tournaments.
shaolin destroyed everyone and the final was vs th e world's greates may thai.
he won the first round easy.
then something happened and in the end m uay Thai won.
pretty cool fight
heeheemanofHK real fighting? Do ypurself a favor and learn what happens when muay thai fights jiu jitsu or wrestling. You find out really quick how shit muay thai is
jon doe idiot.... Muay Thai doesn't practice ground fighting. I could say the same like bjj vs Muay Thai but no wrestling allowed and bjj would get destroyed
Damn, Benny the Jet is a badass. This guy is trying to clinch with me? Judo throw him to the ground. I think he was the only western kickboxer that was able to deal with some Muay Thai fighters even though he had no low kick expirience. Great video!
+Greg G Lol. That Muay Thai guy had horrible defence against those throws. Makes me appreciate how lucky we are these days to have MMA where we have to learn boxing, kicking, wrestling, grappling to be complete fighters.
Greg G"able to deal"...you mean last act of a desperate fighter...
love Benny!
Dave with a fire axe standing on a hill of skulls as opposed to not having any defense
BENNY GOT WHOOPED, THE CROWD HAD TO JUMP IN TO HELP.
I remember watching the Roufus fight when it first aired on TV. America got a rude awakening to Muay Thai, and realized how brutally effective it is.
WTF, I thought the Muay Thai guy end in the first round
and he flips the situation.
i think too
But when him know how to “low kick”
Every thing has change.
That was another fight. The youtuber mixed the two
I imagine their reaction when they learned afterwards that by just lifting your leg up you can check a low kick
This is true ... unless you are checking the legs of a professional Thai Fighter who has trained for years kicking trees and lumber. Checking a kick with a raised knee works because it hurts the legs of the average kicker and breaks his timing. Now imagine checking a baseball bat with your knee, and everytime you did, the dude swings faster and harder... if you watch these matches, you can clearly see all the fighters were elite... the difference was the toughness of the tools.
It works if you and your opponent are equal but damn I learned that the hard way
Side horse stance is very vulnerable to outside leg kicks. Benny Urquidez used to use the forward stance against international fighters and kicked all of their asses. Cat stance is pretty effective in kickbox as well.
@@fishing4happiness610 You are correct. I learnt that in a Muay Thai camp in Thailand many years ago. It was fine checking leg kicks against someone of same ability, but against a Thai who had trained since the age of 4, and their legs were so conditioned. Of course, when they kicked they were so relaxed, like swinging an axe. And when they combined with feints to take your supporting leg out....I truly believe that all martial artists, like Karate, Tai Kwon Do etc should cross train in boxing, Muay thai etc. It is important to have eaten a few punches, so when it really happens, there is no shock factor, or turning away reflex.
@@urekmazino106 Yeah, but you are a Webtoons character who has plot armor... I'm sure it wouldn't hurt that much.
Winklejohn got his ass whooped, Rofus went down, but not without a hell of a fight, and Benny... damm, he adapted so quickly to the lowkicks, blocking them correctly with his instinct an fight IQ, he truly was the very best back then.
Not saying any of these guys are pussys or anything, they are legends for a reason.
I've become addicted to your videos, excelent work.
aaaaaaa Benny Urquidez is the GOAT American kickboxer and one of the top 3 GOAT Kickboxers worldwide Roufas a great champion himself but Winklejohn? nope no even close to being a legend as a fighter himself but as a trainer in MMA hes done well
Benny Urquidez showed what he could do, had this been a real fight, let's say in the street , even though the Thai fighter was destroying his legs, one of Benny's Superior slams in the street, and it would have been all over with ! What a total fighter he was !
@@edwardfarmer4230 Those were Judo throws, Benny was tossing him around like a rag doll lol.
The first one was like a Rocky movie. Great comeback in the fight.
Ye
Great video. I appreciate how you show Respect to all the Fighters.
I love how you had to show Benny's first Thai fight.
Western Kickboxing had absolutely no idea what to do against leg kicks. LMAO!
Because Western Kickbooxing was then and is now a FRAUD.
@@rarebreed4489 any of these kickboxers would kill you
@@josen2791 .... Speak for yourself; you Spanish peasant. Be concerned on how to please your handler and stay out of grown folks conversations.
Because they don't exist in American kickboxing. Not because they are a superior technique.
@@mellowx82 LMAO! Did you just say leg kicks/Thai Boxing techniques were NOT superior to American Kickboxing/heathen Colonist Bullshito? You just made me spit my juice all over the place! :)) Thanks for that:)) I can understand if you were comparing Thai Boxing leg attacks to REAL American martial arts of the Indigenous people; like Capoeira and Jiu-Jitsu but they have leg attacks all through them and are superior arts compared to privileged Albino colonist Bullshit Kickboxing.
"man thought muay thai was a fighter that he agreed to fight him". lol
Mark Lord lol
How is it arrogance if in the 70's they didn't really know what Thai Boxing was?
He actually did think that, there is another video pretty new video was Benny talking about that and laughing about it lol.
But being honest. If Urquidez had the chance to grapple and throw then. The outcome would had been clear. I mean, i love Muay Thai. But against a powerful puncher plus black belt grappler....
@@Sazi_de_Afrikan same, in 70s mt fighter didn't really know what amercan kick boxing was.
You just got one loyal subscriber :) Great videos :))
Nikola Krstic thank you!
Great work from Lawrence kenshin. Just like in all of his videos !
I was looking for this. Thanks for making a great summary of three great matches!
Benny the Jet is an absolute legend along with Bruce Lee, Gene Lebell, Ramon Dekkers and the rest of them. It is really difficult to prepare for a style that you don't even know exist. Imagine a country having practised a sport for 50+ years that is boxing with groin shots and no cup allowed. Very difficult to prepare for, you have to knock the guy out quickly or have insane pain tolerance or both to win.
muay is by far more dangerous, deadlier,lethal and darker than just plain kick boxing. the art of 8 limbs has been around for many milenias
joelson sabado u deserve a cookie
JIESUS He deserves more than just a cookie. Muay Thai was one of the biggest factors when Thailand was building its kingdom and waging wars with neighboring lands.
JIESUS what country are you from and what can is your people's own fighting style or art? bet you don't even have one
joelson sabado Mann.. its amazing how people can misunderstand your comment on TH-cam. ahhh.. internet. never fails to amaze me. peace out bro.
Not millennia's, Muay Thai was created in the late 1400's by the Siamese military, so around 500 years.
about the first fight there was no clinching so rufus had a huge advantage all the rules mostly was for him besides the low kicks since there was no clinching elbows or knees. Also rufus had what like a 25 pound weight advantage in this fight he looked huge compared to the thai guy
Irrelevant. Thai guy knew the rules when he agreed to fight. It's like entering an MMA fight and crying because you get taken down.
@@generalkayoss7347 well, it wasn't the Thai guy who was crying.
@@generalkayoss7347 did you see who won the fight? No? Well it was the Guy you seem intent on belittling. Guess ur American then eh?
Those guys are still on wheel chair after they had some dance with the Muay Thai fihters
Imagine if they had a fight with Saenchai and Buakaw 😂 😂 😂
@@ProwlerBlitz They might never know legs existed....
@@xyxyxy9915 😂 😂 😂
roufous liked it he went to k1 to get some more kicks of francisco filho.
4:31 “This is an exhibition fight”
Well it was an exhibition fight when Rufus broke that dudes chin too. What the hell
The problem was because the preparation, since I believed those American fighter didn't know into what rules they would fight. But even with the low kicks and elbows or knees, the Muay Thai guy also clearly was unprepared with the hip throws, single leg takedow and suplex that he received. So that's why cross training is really important nowadays.
In all these cases the American kickboxer had superior boxing while the Muay Thai fighter had leg kicks. Clearly, leg kicks work, but what is the real take-away? It's work the shit out of your boxing and work the shit out of your Muay Thai. More weapons is always better than less weapons.
Great video BTW!
+kaguth Fighters with Gun, knife and big rod are superior to all bar-hand martial art fighters.
And pilots with a Fighter Jet are superior to them ;)
You should know how to fight with any weapon, including your fists. You will not always have a weapon, or even need one!
a great kicker is always going to beat a great puncher. where does a punchers power come from? from the ground up.
+kaguth In all those fights the Thai did not use more than 50% of their arsenal, i did not see any clinch, knee nor elbow ... would the Thai be allowed to fight with knee elbow and clinch all three would have ended with KO/TKO much earlier.
I see a bunch of idiots talking shit about how a Muay Thai guy won here...lmao if you guys allow him to use his full arsenal such as elbows or knees or clinch takedown or throw, This fight would end wayyy sooner than this. Just remember that Muay Thai was used in war back then when they lost their weapons, it's meant to kill not for sports lol xD
NuTTo117 absolutely true there are many moves in muay boran and muay chaiya that when used it can kill anyone in a single hit.
NuTTo117 kickboxing can kill you as well
the muay thai used in wars used kicks into the nuts. now it's a sport with rules to allow the fighters compete with others.
NuTTo117 so true man!
4:10 chop, chop that tree.
TIMBER!!!!!!
if Changpuek had the other arsenal of thaiboxing, throws, elbows this would have ended earlier. But he fought his bigger opponent on kickboxing terms and he kicked ass. I don't understand peoples crying about this match. This is how you win a fight, you use what you can and you exploit your opponents weakness.. period! and Changpuek continuing after a broken jaw and knocked down twice, that's heart, and Roufus that kept on fighting though clearly hurt as hell... jeez, two superhuman fighters. Hats of to you both.
Urquidez’s honesty in how the low kicks felt from a Thai fighter is all one needs to know that Thai kicks are a must in any fighters arsenal.
Man what a channel I discovered ! Amazing content , I subscribed !
Hi Lawrence
Great work as always :-)
So Chuck Norris was attacked by someone in the crowd in this contest?
i'am increasingly in love whit muaythai
Hello everyone. The 3rd fight is also on TH-cam, the one with Benny Uriquidez. Some things were interesting about that fight. First, that match lasted nine rounds, and it was well fought, but seemed relatively even matched. Second, I thought the throws were a reaction to the low kicks, but Benny was using some of them early in the match. Third, Benny didn’t use them as often, but at one point he was throwing his own low kicks, knocking the Thai fighter down with one of them. I was also seeing some Muay Thai style clinching, and the occasional knee thrown. Didn’t see any elbows, however. Four, there must have been a lot of Thais in the audience, because you could hear the cheers every time the Thai fighter threw a kick. The Thai fighter did connect near the end with a kick to the head that knocked Benny down, and the video ended shortly afterwards, so I didn’t see if there was more to the fight or if the riot happened soon afterwards.
Man huge respect to the kick boxer he took a lot of leg kicks with the shin and still was able to walk tough.I also training muay thai and after 3-4 leg kicks i cant take them anymore my quads just giving up.
I find it very funny how the American Kickboxer got kicked till cripled like thatt haha
Like he said please don't kill me
He stayed in the fight much, much longer than you would have. Easy to talk like that behind a screen.
@@bdrums97 I know.
Im not even a fighter.
I just see it from his perspective.
If I were in his position, I would think and say that way.
See the true winner of the fight had the most spiritual Fitness you can clearly see him put his soul into that fight after he got his jaw broke
When you fight someone on tekken and they keep pressing the same kick button
Eli O'field And you are using special combo moves but lost to the same basic kicks~ 😂
@@wannaim6499 yes!!! Oh my that pisses me off 😂😂😂😂 when you play your little nephew 😂😂😂😂
Hahahahha
Eddie gordo flashbacks
I love Changpueks face after the spinning back fist, he's like ''really nigga? we throwin spinnin shit now?''
Broke my jaw, i can fight.
Break ur leg, u can fight, not standing. 😂😂
Was that thing about Chuck Norris being attacked by a Thai real? I want to learn more about that. Like why it happened and stuff
Great vid by the way. I enjoyed it. Not every day do you see older fights like this! :D
@@zachariaravenheart same I wonder as well.
Nope...but vandamn brother by tong po
Chuck Norris would die.
American kickboxing leaves guys in long shiny pants saluting the crowd, Muay Thai leaves guys being dragged off into the hospital to get their legs repaired.
+DancerInTheHeart Most pathetic comment on youtube by far fkn joke
+DancerInTheHeart that is why american kick boxers get their ass kicked, seriously what a whimpy person u are, u are thinking abt health issues i hope u never get into a fight with a thai fighter cause then u will have real health issues, u idiot
+DancerInTheHeart the thai fighters didnt even use any knees or elbow and used the chop block methos and destroyed them
+Jason Brusch method
Jason Brusch
The thai people are not exactly known for their physical strength. It is a country where a significant percentage of men identify as part woman. The reason they may do well is because in their boredom and desperation resulting from living in squalor they wreck their bodies since childhood and develop a care free fighting style that sometimes is strong enough to overcome superior technique and intelligence. The american kickboxer most likely has a life apart from the sport and does not pick fights right after a concussion like they do in Thailand. With that said I have a lot of respect for the olympic boxers of Thailand who have often done well in the olympics competing in the toughest martial sport of them all, which is boxing. Those who suck in boxing can find consolidation in a large number of far more obscure fighting arts like thai boxing and kickboxing as the level of competition is far lower.
Moral of the stories : Don't wears trousers
bad pants but they hide shin padding !
This video was incredible! I cannot believe 700 people dislike it!
much love
Benny describing what the kick to the leg felt like still makes me smile.
การแตะ ตัดขาคนอันตรายมากเลยนะ เป็นฝ่ายรับการแตะของมวยไทย มีแต่เจ็บครับ คนไทยแตะแรงนะบอกเลย🇹🇭
บอกเลยว่าเจาะยางหนิแตกละเอียดเลย5555
อีกวันเดินไม่ได้แน่ครับโดนขนาดนี้ ตอนนั้นเลือดมันร้อนอยู่มันยังไม่เจ็บเท่าไหร่ 555
เคยได้ยินมาเวลานั่งขี้ทรมานสุดๆ ยิ่งสมัยก่อนส้วมคอห่านต้องหาอะไรมาพิงมาค้ำถึงจะขี้ได้
The American boxer, legs after the fight would look more like a sausage meat. 🤣
Many people don’t realize the living legend status in Benny Urquidez, all these guys, Thais and US are legends, at that time if the elbows were allowed the damage to the US guys would have been even greater , but all said and done, Benny is in my opinion important to martial arts as Bruce Lee
The low kicks are like blades made of rail tracks. 😈😈😈
this fucking channel…is AWESOME!
Thang you..ที่นำคลิปมาลงให้ดู...สมัยนนั้นฉันเด็กมาก..
Thank you for this video. As an MMA enthusiast I feel ignorant and ashamed for not knowing these legendary events
Did a Thai dare to attack Chuck Norris? The guy who throws a granade, kills 30 persons and then the granade explodes.
Those Thais are tough bro 🤜🤛
@D J He wasn't old back then mate?
KB Strategy: Similar to boxing, lots of positioning, combos, try to avoid kicks if possible, deflect if not possible. MT Strategy: Kick his legs until they don't work anymore. I always love these videos, the MT guys are always sharks in the ring. The are so determined, so solid, they seemingly shrug off most hits. And then they just relentlessly pursue their opponent around the ring.
Thank you for this video. You my friend, are a martial art scholar.
Endurance is all about boxking. The thai guy has endurance. All boxers need to know the thai kicks, they are iron kicks.
I never knew that low kicks could be so OP.
Fantastic video, as always. Great, historic footage I've never seen before in two of those cases. It's a trip seeing the dude fighters call "Coach Wink" in fairly reverential terms get taken apart by low kicks like that. Kind of like watching early Bas Rutten in Pancrase, before he had a submission game - the evolution of a fantastic fighter starts in a pretty unassuming way, sometimes.
Thanks for all the superb content. I'd love to see you do some analysis on more Dutch kickboxing, or some similarly in-depth MMA fight and striking analysis. That said, seeing the Thai fighters that I wouldn't really know about otherwise is pretty neat, too.
SAagreedSA Thanks a lot for the kind feedback! Yes I can't quite do MMA footage, you can look to Jack Slack and Robin Black for that.
As for Dutch Kickboxing, it's well on its way :)
Awesome! I look forward to it.
I noticed toward the end of the legendary low kick fight that Rick was trying to counter by spinning into a backfist. I was impressed by his creativity and I can kind of see what he was trying to do, but it really tells you just how out of the blue the Muay Thai fighting style's more well-rounded striking must have been. He had no idea, no clue at all how he might try to defend that, and his offensively-oriented thinking could only come up with "try to hit him back somehow, if he's spinning you around turn it into a punch!" - like a more sophisticated version of a dude getting low kicked for the first time deciding to try to just low kick back.
It must take a great deal of work to be able to effectively check low-kicks. Not something even a great fighter like Rick could invent, spur of the moment, clearly. I have never seen a fighter in any promotion, under any rules, discover mid-fight how to check leg kicks correctly - if the offensive leg kicker gets five or six off into one leg, that seems to be enough cumulative damage to rob movement effectively. I'm kind of surprised leg kicks aren't more prominent, given how effective they are. Riskier than punches, I guess, it's pretty easy to punish a naked leg kick if the kicker isn't extremely fast?
SAagreedSA Yes indeed, these type of historic matches have made the low-kick defence and low-kick ready stance one of the first things learned in KB/American MT/MMA
Urquidez was able to last and check some kicks, and he tried to kick back to meet leg checks and he admitted that hurt like hell. Spinning around off a low kick is risky, but one that Uriah hall does in sparring (the spinning heel hook kick) off being low-kicked. for most fighters it only takes a few good ones to maim them.
in MMA, fighters don't spend nearly as much time conditioning their shins, but also they need to sit down heavier to prevent takedowns, hence why less low kicks and less leg checks
This fight came down to pure toughness. Respect to both.
Never get bored with this fights show. Hi American kick boxing fighter, how you all feel with our tiny brother low kicks?
Second fight he was just toying with him 😂
Muay thai guy: you use all your tecnicks, i use just one
those leg kicks sint no joke
It dosnt matter what style of fighting you take up. it depends on the fighter, not the style. In chinese we say most important is 1. fierce mongrel. 2. strength, 3. fighting style.The main aim to knock down your opponent first (streetfight)
Muay Thai and kyokushinkai are my two great striking loves amongst martial arts
Its like getting kicked by a 4x4 fence post
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Brutal. I think this shows that the Thai fighters simply condition themselves way more than the Kickboxers do. If the kickboxers were to condition their legs to withstand constant low kick impacts they'd be able to win in a match of kickboxing rules.
It goes without saying though that with Thai clinches, elbows, knees etc the kickboxers would suffer brutal beatings.
Its a diferent style.go watch duch kickboxing against muay thai.it is a little bit difefent then american
I dont know....this video is from the 70s. Most kickboxers nowadays know Muai Thay.
bruh this fight was like 45 years ago nobody outside of Thailand knew what Muay Thai was by the early 90s Muay Thai had already spread thruout the USA and you don't see that anymore at all and it was Benny Urquidez going to Japan and Knocking out all their top fighters which heavily influenced the Dutch again that's facts
Interesting boys. I hadn't considered the date of this fight. But surely you're right. Ty
Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed these videos very much.
Kru Merican thank you!
The fact that the Thai fighters HAD to follow kickboxing rules. But come out victorious is amazing.
Definitely need a vid on Benny such a master class of a striker.