This is one of the most badass fights in Ramon Dekkers' career. He faces off against Duane Ludwig in a K-1 super fight, and a few days out he tore his bicep. But he doesn't pull out, and opts to fight with only one good arm. He scores three epic knockdowns and goes on to win the fight decisively. Six years ago today, he passed away due to a heart attack, but his influence in combat sports will never be forgotten. Legends never die. If you'd like to learn more about striking history and techniques, consider checking out my new book preview featuring many legend studies: www.LegendaryStriking.com Instagram: instagram.com/strikingbreakdowns Free Saenchai eBook: lawrencekenshin.com/saenchai

Ludwig saw it as an honour to even face his master, i think he knew he wouldn't win, but to him it was just about the honor, not of challenging his master, but challenging himself, such humility is so rare these days.

Ludwig's striking level: master. Dekkers' striking level: Dekkers

Us Thai fighters love and respect Ramon Dekker. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Ramon and changpuek were the guys my cousin got me to watch when i started Muay thai @ 13 years old. I get really nostalgic/sad watching anything with Ramon, a real warrior .

Ramon Dekkers hands down my favorite Muay Thai fighter of all times. Dude was a beast. RIP 🙏

My favorite kickboxer, its tragic the way he died and it bums me out that he'll never be a guest on JRE.

Rest in Heavenly peace, Ramon. You are and always will be a true inspiration to me and many, many more for generations to come. What you accomplished, was truly admirable and showed true grit, God bless you 🙏.

You had me at Ramon Dekkers.

Rest in peace Ramon Dekkers. The most vicious fighter in any compat sports along with Mike Tyson. I wonder if he was born in modern era and became MMA fighter, he would had changed a different history of another compat world.

That’s classic footage right there! Mad respect to Ludwig for getting in there.

Dekkers was so badass. So explosive. I love Ludwig, too. Too bad he didn't have the athleticism to match how beautiful he fought technically.

Rip to sir ramon dekkers.Legendary fighter!

Jaay ! The best music for Ramon Dekkers. Thank you for this upload.

I don’t know if you noticed but when Dekkers started throwing the left hooks he shifted his hips in south paw. Impressive

what a soul this man has and a lion strong heart. I hope he is with angels now. rest in heaven with proud,dear Ramon

I love both fighters! Ludwig showed much respect as we can see - very smart fighter too! R.I.P Mr. Ramon DIAMOND Dekkers !! 💎

Awesome. That parry to the cross is what we practice a lot. We have traditional forms for this kind of exchange but, of course, we also have a practical application in real time. It's awesome to see full contact fighters who don't forget about their other limbs when they strike.

Awesome breakdown as always!👊

The Dutch kick boxing in the 90s was insane.

RIP to a legend, good video!!!

Too much respect from Ludwig to Ramon Dekkers.....

RIP, and max respect, Ramon Dekkers.

*This was TJ vs Henry. One trying to chain combos, while the other breaks the chain with hard shots while peddling forward to disrupt the space with hard short shots (in Henry's case, a push).*

RiP legend!!!rip Ramon Deckker!! LOVE YOU BROTHER

Zoveel respect...Ramon,...mis je!

Shine bright like a diamond.

They don’t make them like they did before..born legend🙏🙏r.i.p

only Respect for the great and late Ramon Dekkers

rest in piece, Dekkers!!!! sawadee

The 2 dislikes are Duane and TJ lol jp.. Maybe

GREAT choice of subject matter. Given the arcs of their respective careers, I always thought this was a fascinating fight in context.

Legend.

Bro got humbled lol Dekkers loved him the whole time and still does R.I.P.

Un tío muy duro y sabía lo que se hacía. Manos muy duras

~RAMON DEKKERS #1. DIAMOND ~HERO's Get Remembered, , , , , . . . .But LEGEND's Never DIE! = =

this guy was crazy, he had an ankle injury that could've made him not able to walk anytime if he made a mistake, and now he fought with one arm due to a bicep injury

Maeng Ho, Ramon Dekkers 🙏❤️

Dekkers ze best!!!

Rest in peace warrior !!!

Por qué hay 8 dislike? Éste video fue hecho con mucho respeto hacia ambos peleadores y lleno de mucha información valiosa.

The fact that Bang was smiling is nuts. I would have been shitting myself

RIP Ramon... one of the best that ever did it

What a fucking monster. R.I.P. Ramon

He is the man

Devastating left hand like coban

Ludwig looks so amateurish against a one-armed killer like Dekkers, the most respected Farang of all-time

Hi guys I need advice from fighters to fighter. I'm a southpaw I used to have a heavy left hand but I got injured. I saw on videos some fighters as yodsanklai, juanma lopez or Edwin Valero have a deadly right hook from southpaw. I'd like to know how to used it in muaythai and become my special move. Thanks

Can anyone be more badass than Ramon?

Made me Respect Duane more. Dekkers was Legendary.

Dude was 186 and 35 impressive hes a beast i jus looked him up r.i.p

❤️🙏🏽 💎

We missen je in Brabant Ramon 😥

💎💎💎💎

"Perfect nuclear hook"🤯🔥🔥🔥🔥

ludwig is the glass joe of mma

His Megaman arm cannon wasn't disabled

Lawrence, do you think a peekaboo fighter should strive for developing this type of jab or would the fact that the opponent can always see your lead hand (stuck to your chin) telegraph it too much? I'm sorry, I know instead of asking I could just test this out in the ring, but I'm currently on the night shift at work and there's nobody to spar with in the mornings at my gym.

RIP diamond

Lawrence, did Ludwig know a the time of the fight, about Dekkers bicep?

Respect for Duane for this fight. But coming up against the diamond/turbine was never going to turn out that well. At the same time u were not star struck, and gave it a pretty damn god go, with a couple of solid hits.

onze Diamant ✌

Young Duane tho #nohomo

What, the, f**k, left arm only. Badass. I also think though that Duane if he had rematch would have done much better, (although not beaten the GOAT)

Is that the same Duane Ludwig that fights Burmese boxing?

Duane looks so young here gosh

Duane looks like TJ. Eating all those shots with his face.

Dekkers was a beast, getting this guy with one arm not functional

Duane was a bit star-struck no doubt. He is a bit better than this fight would indicate. But at the same time Ramon seemed to withhold his KO for a while. Those leg kicks though, they is nasty as f*k, and the some.

The turbine from hell God of the sport His fights with Coban ♡♡♡

He died at 49? Anybody know how he passed? Rest In Power

Ramon low kick master ..😥😢

Duane looks 13

👍👍👍🇺🇦

Did Ludwig have any good fights? I don't remember him being impressive

I used to be a pretty big fan of Dekkers, watched his documentaries and watched his full fights. I wanted to know everything about the man. I wanted to buy his diamond logo shorts, ffs. The more you learn about him, the more he falls from grace. There are some really big lies surrounding his character, especially the "first foreigner to win fighter of the year" myth really stands out. It's everywhere on the internet, but it is in fact false. It never happened. I looked it up. I was quite honestly a bit shocked. It was just lies propagated by his camp. Then there is the "dekkers forced the thais to adapt to a new style" myth. That also didn't happen. The thais were curious, but they didn't adopt anything from his arsenal, really. And why would they? Dekkers lost more times than he won, when pitted against elite thai fighters. He even suffered a handful of outright embarrassing defeats. Then there's the "dekkers lost unfairly on decisions because thais would favour their own"... Ah, man. It breaks my heart to write this, but just watch the fights, brother. Dekkers lost fair and square, in as far as i can tell, every single one of his losses. If a thai had fought like Dekkers did in his losing fights, the thai would also have lost. There's just no getting around it. Then there's the coke, and the juicing, against all-natty thais. There are real reasons why his heart gave out at such a young age, but only a small number of people are willing to speak on it. I get it; we don't want to tarnish his name, but cheating is cheating, and it is dishonorable when thais only juice up on ginseng. Dekkers is a legend, he accomplished remarkable things, but the cult of personality surrounding him in the fight community has reached George Washington levels of bullshit, honestly. I still have some respect for his legacy, no one can take away from the fact that he was a beast that went all-in ringside, but you have to draw the line somewhere. And that line is drawn at the point where fact meets fiction. R.I.P Diamond, I hope it was all worth it.

Dude was for sure on many PICOGRAM'S! but really he's juiced but still though