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Low kicks are much easier to do, and you don't use as much energy. Avoiding & withstanding low kicks takes a lot of talent when you're not used to receiving them

Saying you made this fight famous on the internet sounds kind of gross. Don't you think the fighters made it famous, both that night and forever?

Will you continue to do why this style dominates series?

​@@stonewulf2755 He did make it famous

Low kicks rock!

My low kicks have that snap to it :3.

Then you should watch the first round of the fight. The Thai dude got dropped.

the rules of the fight was that the Thai guy was not allowed to elbow, clinch, or throw. Only punching and kicking was allowed. And the white guy is saying that the kicking was unfair.

It wasn't completely negated, far from it. The American fighter caused HEAVY damage with his hands in the first or second round (can't remember which). He broke the Thai Kickboxer's jaw. It takes some serious mental fortitude to keep fighting after your effing jaw is broken. It definitely wasn't a one sided fight, because the American fighter wasn't far from winning early on.

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the rules of the fight was that the Thai guy was not allowed to elbow, clinch, or throw. Only punching and kicking was allowed. And the white guy is saying that the kicking was unfair.

@@aj2228 Yes as an American I'm embarassed by the response he gave but he was only 18 years of age as mentioned.

@@aj2228why are you spamming this comment?

@@KingCubacause he has a right to an opinion lol.. why are u here? Lol

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... and grappling.

Lol, when you put it that way...

How would that benefit the Thai player they are easily the worst grapplers of any martial art besides Taekwondo, Roufus can actually wrestle in a no rules fight Thai players would get suplexed on concrete in front of their families & wouldn’t do anything to stop it

@@DADRB0B55 Are you a troll?

Yup

Real, then his brother whines about fouls

13:22 this was in the first round and the angle is even better

​​​​@@joeie010 The footage from the second angle makes it clear that the kick was a separate decision and action, not part of a combo.

@@HWHY either way, roufus did the fouls first

@@HWHY Plenty of time to at least pull back on that kick too, but he swung free. Thai fighters fight clean until you cross them.

😂😂😂. Every Thai boxer knows how to use low kicks !! Don’t need to be Changpuek. Royce gracie was defeated and humiliated by Sakuraba and the rest of the gracie brotherhood.

​@@selimhassaine6490still showcased BJJ well.

nothing dishonourable about low kicks though, just a false perception of lack of skill from ignorance

@@Leo.23232 I agree.

In a fight effectiveness is talent.

you have to impress the audience if you are to sell ads and tickets. If you don't sell you have no money to pay to fighters. Then you don't get great professional fighters, big gyms, etc.

Offense sells tickets. Defense wins matches.

Or maybe the rules they made was to avoid the Thai fighters to use elbows or knees like K-1 did to Buakaw.. I wouldn't write that down if I was the one who decided the rules 😂

He knocked him out in the first round. The Thai fighter’s corner had to revive him.

I believe Jose Also was one of the greatest low kickers I’ve ever seen. I also believe Conor McGregor utilised a bladed stance… But I’m just messing around, one example doesn’t change the basic fact.

@@TheRogueSquidwhich is why the rematch Conor ran from would’ve been so interesting. Cub Swanson had to deal with the same thing, aldo comes out and flying knees him in seconds in the WEC - so everyone just assumes the fight would go like that every time, so we never really got to actually see that matchup

@@sus425 I agree. Rematch would have been nice! Jose Aldo was my favourite fighter at the time, and I had my money on him. But you put forwards momentum into a counter like that and we see the result. I was never a Conor fan, but his early days when he DID utilise his bladed stance he proved to be dominant, and thats what the post is about. Also, Machida, Wonderboy etc. It can more than hold it's own is just what I'm saying. Underestimate it at your own peril!

I am not a Conor fan but you really don’t deserve a rematch when you lost in 13 seconds, Conor vs Volk as far as made up fights go is more interesting

In your opinion, what do the majority of organizations score it in Muay Thai/kick boxing?

@@kingkrispy5289 I honestly couldn't say. I only work for two

which one do you think take more talent?

@@LawrenceKenshinit isn’t a talent show, it’s a fight

@@LawrenceKenshin Neither imho. Its all about practice and experience. As Bruce Lee himself said: " I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

also spinning kick combinations are pretty hard to follow up unlike low kicks. Throw spin kick with wrong technique and you get punished because you are at a bad fighting angle

@@LawrenceKenshin It depends on the kick. A low kick that breaks a leg and disables someone takes more talent than a spinning kick that doesn't disable someone.

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They fought twice and it was dope each time.

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That's why the post fight interview was hilarious: they specifically designed the rules to help them win & he's running his mouth about "the rules didn't allow us to win" LOL

That applies in a couple way. Benny the Jet could Judo toss Thai Fighters around but a lot of times that was also against the rules

@aquaticlibrary yeah, but Benny wasn't fighting judo guys, then specifying "no throws" lol. These guys got a Thai fighter & said "no knees, elbows, or clinch-strinking of any kind" which is the equivalent of fighting a judoka minus the throws.

@LIONTAMER3D Yeah, I was also going to say. It's a false comparison by the fact thar one is a striking art and the other is grappling.

Similar to how Canelo lost to Floyds slick defensive style Canelo learned so much from that fight

Hate to say it but that was probably a fixed fight. I love Suzuki and Bas Rutten though. Murder Grandpa is a legend in the business.

​@@FriedEraMost likely Bas was not "in" on the fix. But yes, Suzuki most probably lost on purpose.

@@giantm846 He definitely was lol. Bas worked for NJPW in the early 2000s . Even Don Frye had pro wrestling matches with Kawada and probably more.

Multiple badly aimed low-kick to the opponent’s knee will destroy the kicker. There’re some KOs resulted from this where the kickers can’t stand back up from cumulative damage.

Yeah, idk why people consider low kicks " low skill". One badly aimed low kick and you can snap your shin, see Anderson Silva's or Weidman's horrible injuries.

@@angeltzepesh1as someone who has had their leg kick checked I can confirm. I’ve also injured other people from checking their kicks with my elbows or knee. I just think it’s ignorance from most people who have never trained

@@angeltzepesh1 Corey Hill also.

It doesn't matter if low kicks are considered as low skill. It takes sheer will and determination and hardwork to condition one's leg to deliver low kicks which is devastating and lethal. Not just anyone can throw low kicks, or it will be like Anderson Silva's sheen break in half. One's leg needs conditioning through vigorous training.

Low kicks are effective on both the unskilled and highly skilled opponent. And in between

I once ended a fight with just one kick to the knee. Guy came up all aggressive and walked into it. He hobbled away soon after.

Takes more skill to fight standing on your head with both hands tied behind your back too.

If humans were more durable, or could heal from any injury, and live really long lives, then someday you'd see fighters adapting to higher and higher tech levels. But as it is now our metagame is chiefly defined by what you can accomplish before you get too old or injured. And due to the brutality of combat sports, there will always be bottlenecks to what people can accomplish. Maybe biomedical and/or futuristic VR tech can change this.

why practice a skill thats less useful and effective?

@@anthonyclark9159 That way, why do anything that is not utilitarian?

@@anthonyclark9159cuz it’s fun, and it has a novelty factor if your opponent isn’t familiar with it

Rick absolutely mauled this guy from the first round

We don’t care about your poor little Thai guy.

Didn’t happen

He absolutely kicked him in the face when he was down, watch the fight@@newagain9964

Yeah, to me it looked like that kick to the head made him go sicko mode. He knew he could get the stoppage when he noticed the other guy couldn't block a low kick, so he absolutely humiliated the fool.

Knees to the ribs will not only end the fight but leave you with intercostal rib injuries that take weeks or months to recover.

do you think we'll get a spin kick revolution soon?

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@@LawrenceKenshin Nope. I think this 'low kick revolution' has led people to underappreciate spinning kicks and perhaps we'll see more of them as more people figure out the time and place for them, but I wouldn't call that a revolution in the same sense.

Saw a foolish man in a Hotel get warned twice by a lovely Thai mate of ours who cooked in the bistro . Man was just being a complete wanker , went to grab one of the staff . Little Nat walked forward , dumb ass threw a low kick at a 61yr old Thai . All over in a block and the cleanest forearm you could ever see .

I did Muay Thai first from a very young age, as I was born in Thailand, but you cannot just spam low kicks against even the worst opponent if you see them being sort of light on the front foot; they'll just lift that lead leg and turn it into your kick. You have to put the low kick in when they put their weight on the front foot OR at the very end up a combination, else it'll be checked. I've got a decent half-moon chip on my right leg from an opponent checking me. I'm skeptical that legs can ever be conditioned to not get those chips and cuts when you get checked. Against most people, I think the downward teep is the safest. You could almost do a whole sparing session doing nothing but teeps, but I have been caught doing a lazy teep. However, if something did only karate or taekwondo, then I could see one having a hard time defending against low kicks.

@@langhamp8912 definitely. The body mechanics of a Karate or Taekwondo kick is much different from Muay Thai. You pretty much have to unlearn what you know from Karate in order to learn Muay Thai. I had a difficult time learning how to check kicks and how to throw a proper Muay Thai roundhouse. There’s not as much torque with Karate roundhouses and it’s more about snapping the kicks and retracting it back rather than following through like Muay Thai. The checks are different as well. In karate they might block a low roundhouse with a lower block with the forearm or a low kick with the foot before the apex of the roundhouse kick. Although the conditioning of the entire body is decent with karate using makiwara boards and other forms of bone conditioning. I don’t know if it compares to how Muay Thai conditions their shins, knees, and elbows. I personally wouldn’t want to test that if I know they know Muay Thai. I would more likely try to keep my distance and avoid close quarters with a Muay Thai practitioner. Even though I’ve been training Muay Thai for a while now. I know that it’s not as good as someone who’s trained their whole life. I definitely would be hesitant to throw a leg kick against them. Even though I have pretty good leg kicks. I think it’s the comfortability that I haven’t developed as a Karate fighter. But if I was fighting someone untrained to stop a leg kick. I’d probably keep throwing it after landing a few.

@@Chronnie I did Muay Thai when I was a young teenager, and then went back when I was in my early thirties, but never seriously and often just to stay in shape with like-minded people. Never went to a camp or such. And I never really conditioned by legs; it seemed if you knew how to check a kick by being very relaxed then that worked well enough. But also we usually used leg pads. In my opinion, the low kick is somewhat difficult to do especially if you load up and miss. You need to get somewhat close to ensure you don't miss so you cannot just spam it. I do think it's amusing that if you see a low kick coming (not difficult) then...just step back with your lead leg. Just step back and everything will be ok. But when I went back in my thirties to martial arts circa 2010's, it did not seem there was a distinctive Muay Thai, kickboxing, or taekwondo style anymore. By then, it was all merged together to form a fairly conservative style whereby if you missed then you wouldn't be ludicrously off-balance like what we saw with Rick Roufus. For example, turtling up with a soft lead leg as what we see Muay Thai does, then you're leaving yourself awfully vulnerable to being taken down.

@@langhamp8912 Yes. I see what you mean. Martial Arts has evolved since this fight. People are more MMA/Jeet Kune Do in this day and age and don’t rely on one style anymore. Muay Thai Stance does have a disadvantage in an MMA fight because of it’s higher center of gravity. It’s also not as good with lateral movements as some of the other styles because Muay Thai fighters usually fight square to their opponents with little lateral movement. But it is a good base style to have as it does have some wrestling and judo. It is very effective in the clinch which is one of the most important factors in an MMA fight or street fight. I did study Jeet Kune Do for a bit. Bruce Lee had the On-Guard Stance which makes a lot of sense and is balanced in many ways utilizing a Philly Shell Blocking to protect the body and a boxing/fencing stance that allows the footwork to be much lighter for movement. Of course this isn’t a good stance against a cage or being cornered but it does allow circling around an opponent to be easier. But, probably not as effective to throw Muay Thai Roundhouse kicks out of because of it’s sideways stance.

Yeah it was an error on his part to allow lowkicks. It would have been a very short fight if the Thai was allowed to use elbows and knees.

Didn't Francisco Filho stop him with low kicks too in K-1?

@@QuickStrikes84 yea that’s his only other loss to leg kicks, but it definitely happened a full decade later.

Totally agree.

YDKSAB lmao

Yep!!

What if it’s fancy and effective!

10000 times!

one kick 10 thousand times

Great at what, acting?

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@elpatron6537 surely, he's not talking about fighting, because Bruce Lee wasn't a fighter. You may as well say he was a great astronaut.

very true

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I'm not 100% certain, but I found a source that stated for this fight Roufus weighed in at over 200lbs and Chanpuek was fighting at 154.

It's beautiful, these dudes don't play. Just imagine getting kicked by a Thai Muay Thai fighters

Yup. A jumping spinning hook takes a lot of talent but you'll never see one in a boxing match because it's an ineffective attack.

Rick Rufus is a girlie girl

Thai fighters spend 20 years kicking wooden poles, practicing just one kick, to strengthen their femurs. they've spent more years on one technique

All in the hips an how u plant ur front foot either lefty or righty..

low kicks are all about timing

It's taken me around 8 of my 10 years of karate to finally "get", the basic tsuki (the jab) that I learned on day 1, 8 years for me to feel how that could be destructive, potentially. All those hits, punches or kicks, if they seem simple enough, they still take years to master, and they still have technique beyond "throw leg at leg", or "send hand".

He is one of the goats for sure. Not many striking coaches produced multiple mma champions. Even Jon Jones credits duke for a lot of his striking style

@@LawrenceKenshinyeah, but I think it’s a bit weird to credit him as the GOAT as if he was the best ever when he got destroyed. He’s a great coach now because of his decades of experience including this.

@@aquaticlibraryhe didn’t get destroyed. He dropped the Thai guy and dominated him. The Thais had to cheat to even the field.

@@LawrenceKenshin How about the Gentleman from AKA in San Jose, CA. He's produced a lot of MMA champions with his striking coaching.

​@@aquaticlibraryNobody was considering him a GOAT striking coach when he was a 22 year old kickboxer (when he got "destroyed"). There are good coaches that were good fighters, mid fighters, even some like Eric Nicksick coached multiple fighters (sean strickland, jamahal hill, Francis nganou) to championships despite having never fought at all, he was basically a football coach. The fact is that after getting destroyed by low kicks he went to Thailand and learned them to make sure it wouldn't happen again, making him arguably the first american style kickboxer to start blending techniques from muey Thai, and trailblazing the evolution of MMA striking, and for that alone he should be considered a GOAT. As for coaches like Trevor whittman, while he could be considered a GOAT at one point when he had 3 champions (Rose, Usman, and Gaethje as interim champion) he now has no champions. The fact that he couldn't coach Rose (one of the most talented strikers in wmma history) to outstrike Carla Esparza (a wrestler with pretty rough striking) in the most boring title fight in recent memory, should be enough to yank Trevor out of the goat discussion, at least until he redeems himself for letting that atrocious striking display happen

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Andy Hug used the spinning heel kick to the thigh

@@bigboi2724 that's what I was thinking🔥

@meicc398 what a mad lad Andy Hug invented his own unique move

@@bigboi2724 yeah, pretty interesting and powerful technique

Yup!

No kidding: they're helping you send them flying with a teep

I can only teep for so long before they start catching it 😁 but then I'll mix it up and throw them off lol

@@Smokkedandslammed working off a teep for offense is nice.

Yes, but back in this fight he was more like Rick Doofus.

Rick who ??

yeah but puling back and continuing the spin take almost exactly the same time

@@ComicusFreemanius no I doesn't and it's not always even possible.