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Kem goes for his third in a row. Back on the 15th May, Kem and Chun travelled once again to Uttaradit. Kem was looking for his third win in three visits to Uttaradit and the crowd was enthusiastically looking forward to the fight, the main bout of the evening.
Earlier on the card of fifteen fights, Chun fought fight #5. He was brought in as a last minute replacement for a boxer who fell ill and was giving away 4 kg and a head in height to his opponent. Despite these disadvantages Chun fought an excellent fight, getting to heights with his kick that seemed impossible. In the 3rd round Chun let go with a strong accurate right hook that sent his opponent to the floor for an eight count only to have his opponent send him half way through the ropes with a kick to the head in return. Chun survived the eight count and went on to finish the fight with a good show but ultimately his taller and heavier opponent won the fight on points.
Kem's fight was eagerly awaited by the crowd as word of his two previous visits, the defeat of two tough fighters out of Bangkok, had passed around the fight fans of Uttaradit. The fight started as usual with Kem's slow swaggering style keeping his opponent at bay with accurate teeps and throwing the occasional high kick, testing the waters! In the second round both fighters fought hard with Kem taking a heavy kick to the head, and he had to hang on for a moment to survive.
The third was the turning point for Kem when he managed to drop his opponent twice, once with his trade mark high kick and once out of the clinch with a hard low kick. Kem's opponent though proved to be very tough and despite another flurry of high kicks to the head in the fourth survived through to the final bell. Kem took the fight on points and went home nursing a big lump on the head from the kick he took in the second round.
For those of you who know Seemok, he will be fighting on the 31st May for a Ratchatderm Stadium Champions Belt. He has once again returned to train with his Camp in Bangkok and this time he has taken Boon with him and for the first time in Boons 8 years fighting Muay Thai he will be finding out all about the rigours of training at the top level. The promoter there is very impressed with Boon and has arranged a fight for him in Bangkok on the 10th of June.
The Camp is in full swing just now with several boxers training for up coming fights. On the 1st June at a small village, Sampatong, about a half hour drive from the Camp, we have Joey, from Canada, fighting his second bout since arriving 3 months ago and Masa, from Japan, also fighting for his second time.
On the 2nd June, at Mae Jo University in Chiangmai, we have Sam, from New Zealand, taking on her fourth fight against the first girl she fought and won against back in December. Jono, from England will be lookng to end his losing streak, he has had some tough fights with close decisions and is determined to take the next fight and has been putting in some good hard training over the past two weeks. Ahmed, coming back from injury and illness will taking on his fourth fight.
The big fight of the month should be in Pattaya on the 16th June when Eddie goes for a WMTC Junior Middleweight Title against a good Thai fighter, Mot Eck, who trains out of Sipolek Gym in Pattaya. As yet unconfirmed, we should have 3 or 4 other boxers fighting on the same night. As we find out I will update along with the results of the fights on the 1st and 2nd.
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Good luck to all in Muay Thai.
Andy Thomson - Lanna Muay Thai
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