Amazing. If someone can make a fight agaist Grigorian look easy it would be just Yodsanklai. Grigorian has a bomb for a right arm and Yod strategy was so simple, destroy that power arm completely with power kicks. It was painful to watch all that beating to his right arm.
Crazy how Marat's POWERFUL will withered with those devastating left kicks. He started with unstoppable ferocity, he was ready to crush anyone it seemed, but he didn't have an answer for Yodsanklai's weapon of mass destruction.
If only more kickboxers would just learn to teep and prioritize their low kick abilities as much as their jabs and hooks. Rob Kaman figured out the power of capable low kicks long ago but kickboxers still fall back on that Andy souwer/masato kickboxing model.
@@calska140 the southpaw roundhouse is literally the equalizer in muay thai. marat has a strong guard. very hard to catch him with clean shots. yod had the perfect gameplan. if you cant find a hole in the defensive wall. then you pound that wall til it breaks.
We all know Yod is a powerhouse kicker, but wats underrated in this fight is jus how tough marat is. 70+ kicks to the same place in his right hand and he was still standing there absorbing it by the end of the fight. Furthermore, he still went on the offensive and got a few good punches in.
I didn't know Yodsanklai was only 5'7. Thought he would be 5'10-6'0 but at the end when he was holding the trophy the 2 girls were both much larger than him. Legendary fighter though. Glad he got at least one big payday when he won the contender series.
Leaning heavily on boxing in a kickboxing match with yodsanklai. That's a dangerous proposition. Yod may not be a boxing born specialist but his hands are some of the scariest in MT. Plus he's got the rest of the MT toolset honed and trained to a very high degree that he can dismantle you with. Basically: want to beat yod? Do you have hand power and chin comparable to coban, Teeps and low kicks comparable to buakaw, movement and flexibility comparable to saenchai? No? Not even close? Just don't get in that ring, man.
One thing is for sure. You fight YOD and you wont have a right arm for a while. Very rude fighter not shaking hands with him when bell went at the end.
I think he was more than a little traumatized. They've been cultivating incredible hand to hand warriors in Thailand for a very long time. Muay Thai was meant for nothing less than war. Not a sport, not a dance, not an exhibition. But killing the enemy in battle in lieu of weapons.Traditional Thai Boxers have toughness and strength meant for a much tougher world. Just look at Nowveed vs Le Banner or Kaoklai's fights against giants. No one in kickboxing would do these matches and they would lose handily if they did.
Marat Grigorian's right hand was kicked burned so he didn't have any strength to give a punch. He didn't have any strength to shake hand with Yod...ha ha ha Yod is the best and has a powerful left kick ever. If this fight was allowed to use Muay Thai rules, Marat Grigorian might get more hurt and TKO. for sure.
Fairtex ,and Saenchai, got alot in comen. But Saenchai, is more a checkplayer ,psychologe, set his opponent on the wrong leg is more a player,and lets his oponent, do what he wants,so calculate
Good fight from both warriors, but I'm amazed Grigorian didn't try to check or catch even one of those left mid kicks from Yod. Almost as bad as Kobayashi vs. Samkor geez...
Sittichai is dominating Glory in a spectacular fashion with the riundhouse kick, Yod as well, it's amazingly simple and destructive tool. As long as kickboxers try to defend the Thai roundhouse kick with their arms they are doomed to lose. Even in my weak sparring games, when I kick a guy 5-10 times in the arm he complains he can barely punch with it.
Yodsanklai kick's are very powerful but I think buakaw kicks a little harder. Yodsanklai punches 10x harder than Buakaw though. John Wayne Parr said that Buakaw's punches hurt but yodsanklai's punches were like a giant ripping a tree out of the ground and hitting him with it
Lopez Bunch I m also a lowkicker and that works in the beginning but trust me middle kicks are far more effective if executed properly. Thai masters of the middle kick are so good that you might be able counter in the beginning as marat but once pain kicks in after a few of them, you also get pushed away by them, bringing you in a distance where your legs havent got enough reach to instant counter. But lowkicks work well enough ahainst foreigners so I stick to those.
@@Naak-lz4rh Thai Boxers have mostly incorporated better boxing skills into their art. But western kickboxers have not bothered to learn from Muay Thai and place higher priority on stronger kicking skills. It's baffling. Oh well. All that means is any Muay Thai fighter can stand on the outside and just low/mid kick you into submission. Kinda sad.
Marat is known for his hands, usually yod is pretty chill on the first round, but he didn't want Marat to find rythm so he kicked the shit out of his rear arm early on and throughout the fight lmao 😂!!! Marat was lucky it wasn't full Muay Thai rules.
They already scheduled for them to fight each other ,but Yod was injured then it was canceled but remember Chomhot Kiat adisak defeated Yodsaenklai and then Yodsaenklai loss to Buakaw by a ko i think if this two were face each other i think Buakaw beats Yod because ,that left Tomahawk would not landed as hard as it landed on the foreigner fighters
People are speaking of Yod beating marat like something phenomenal, NOOO my friends, yes marat is very tough very agressive but Yod is tougher and had tougher fights throuh his career against legends, marat is an elite fighter but not yet ay that level of "legend". Guys check yodslankai vs kyshenko, you will know how much yod is tough eventhough he lost that fight.
