The Fighting Genius Who Made Saenchai 

Please share with your friends if you enjoyed the legend of Somrak. It will help us out a lot in keeping this channel alive. Somrak is the uncrowned king of kings in Muay Thai. But he would not be denied. To alleviate his curse, he rose to superstardom in Olympic Boxing as the first ever gold medalist athlete for Thailand. This is the legend of a man who gifted us Saenchai... showmanship and spectacular feats is in his DNA. Fight fans, enjoy the legend of Somrak Khamsing. How to Fight Giants VIP Waitlist: www.strikingacademy.com/giant

It's crazy that he fought at 154lbs at the end of his career against a future kickboxing champion in Davit Kiria and toy with him. And won... In kickboxing rules. He's amazing.

On that time no one can beat him in Muay thai. So he decided to trian in amateaur boxing for Asian games and Oympic games and he did it. He won the gold medal at the Asian games in Hiroshima 1994, Asian games in Bangkok 1998 and Olympic games in Atlanta 1996. Such a great legend and hero of Thailand boxers.

I’m a boxing fan getting into Muay Thai and I can’t believe I’ve never heard of this man that won Olympic gold in a discipline he didn’t practice. Amazing

Interesting that all of the elite MT fighters in the ring, actually smile, they are genuinely enjoying it. No fear, no worry on winning or losing, just right there in the moment.

I remember the time when he won the olympic medal. I was a kid watching tv and I know everyone in the country was watching the same thing on tv. When he won, I heard screaming of joy from all directions in my neighborhood. That moment was epic. The national anthem was sang out loud all around my neighborhood and I believed this happened all over the country. The next morning all the kids were playing boxing at school.

Somrak Kamsing most famous catch words in Thailand,' Mai dai mo', literally means not bragging. Very humble guy who love to joke a lot. Say if he becomes a Muay Thai champ, he would not have went outward to take up boxing, Seems like he was destined 2b a Olympic champion. He is a very unique fighter n his fighting IQ is superb n he is very entertaining. We Thais love him very much.

So cute how he fit the belt on Saenchai and took a good look at it. Olympic hero for Thailand I'm sure. Boxing gold medal!! LEGEND!! Bravo on giving Somrak his due respect!

Some say that his skill is comparable to Samart Payukarun. If both of them on the ring in the same period, It got to be a legendary fight. Somrak is well known as the smart+counter style, he reduce the damage from his opponent attack by his footwork and he can catch the right moment to counter. Yup and his legacy is Saenchai another most well known Fighter.

You seriously create some of the most amazing, emotional, and educating content about combat. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, and putting your time into your content. I love Saenchai, and this was really really sweet to see. His emotion winning his medal in boxing was priceless.

It’s a good thing JCVD never had that proposed match with him and Somrak...love JCVD but Somrak is on a completely different level!

Thai Stadium Politics tried to deny him his recognition... but he just went global and made history as a first Thai Olympic Gold Medalist 🥇... WOW 😮 ... respect 🙏🙏

Love that u have the masters from the golden era of muay thai on ur mind... I'm watching this while training, now... could listen to these all day

I'm Thai and when I think about Somrak's muay thai technic the first thing I think is how he slowly exhausted the opponent. He defend the punch by keep pushing it down so the oppopent has to rise his arm up everytime and that will build the stress to the arm bit by bit. When he got clinch, he will use his leg to block both knees and jump up to make the oppopent carry all his weight to make him exhausted.

I love your videos. Always makes me want to train again. I trained with Peter Sugarfoot Cunningham 4 days a week from the age of 12-18 and then slowly phased out. Learned a lot from him. I love muay thai and these videos also make me want to go to Thailand for a year and train at a gym. I know kick boxing, but I would love to learn true muay thai. I dont care much to fight but I want to learn the art.

Another video of this Striking Breakdowns’ God. I appreciate some much the work that you’re doing. The time and passion you do to this it’s so dope. So, others generations could watch this fortune 👌🏼

He was also amazing in "a prayer before dawn" movie! What a legend!

I remember him, before MANNY PACQUIAO there's Sumlock Kamsing..even i was young by that time..he's an asian games gold medalist in boxing..i hate him because he's so good in the sport but as the time i tried to follow his career in boxing, he continued Thai Boxing were he thrived,, I thought he'll be a great champ and will be recognized in the world (sayang)..by the way i'm from Philippines..

I remember back in the days how he completely outclassed Kamel jemel who was good and very dangerous with his boxing ,but somrak was at another level.i wish he had fought in a later era where he could have face more foreigners .joky gym really used to develop great fighters

นี่ละที่รอมานาน ราชันไร้มงกุฎ ยอดมวยที่แชมป์เปี้ยนสายหน้าหนีไม่อยากต่อยด้วย

Opponent: Fuuuuh... I'm fighting for my life! Somrak: This is so much fun I can't help smiling.

I saw Somrak fighting for the first time on his fight again Kamel Jemel. I never been so amazed by dicovered a new muay thai fighter in my life. He made so many things I never saw before. He was really incredible, pure genius

Hell yeah. I love this guy now. Amazing video

Somrak is one of the best, even he isn't well known in western, but you can ask any Thai person in Thailand, 99.99% knew who Somrak is, he's legendary.

Somrak very popular in thailand. But in world wide just a few knew him. He is biggest muaythai fighter in his weight at the time. Somrak and Samart is all muaythai fighters in thailand hero today. His smile when he dodged is his signature that made the ring more entertaining to watch.

Khun Somrak... Perfectly embodies the late Golden Era, and the Jockey Gym fighters... What a LEGEND!!

When you're too good that no one wants to fight you.

lol after re-watching a lot I just realized that 0:52 the man who stood behind Somrak is Samart Payakaroon (the rainbow shirt)

Unclown king? Sure, no one dare to fight him. Veeraphol Sahaprom said he cancel his fight twice because he acknowladge that he can't hit Somruk. And make him look bad.

just discovered that samart was standing right behind somrak in 0:53

Always great content !!! thank you for sharing

Samart and Somrak are my two absolute favorite Muay Thai fighters.

just the idea that he couldve and shouldve face mayweather in the final is crazy what a matchup that would be

My highest Respect ….. Truly a Legend.

His footwork in that boxing match was solid asl. It’s trippy seeing Thai fighters who transition to boxing, they look completely different when they decide to box. Thais are truly the most versatile strikers

A beautiful and inspiring story. Thanks for the video

He’s never has stitches on his face. When he was “unemployed” as no Thai fighters wanted to fight him. There was a National boxing game. Big provinces with big money got all good boxers so he offered himself to fight for a small province. Despite no training and drinking all night 😂 he won the fight and all the way to the gold medal. Unfortunately after his gold Olympic medal, he lost motivation, lack of training, partied hard😅 He just made it for his 2nd Olympic but lost… He’s alway cocky and funny. Motto of the story hard work beat genius.

Great work as usual! Somrak is an outsnading counterpuncher. Rodtang breakdown please?

I live in the Thai village he came from. If nobody knows the village if you say his name they know where yr talking about. A true legend over here!

damn, imagine you are so good that no gambler dares to bet against you so you can't get a title shot, it's so cool =)))

As a Thai person i watch interviews and following Many muay thai fighters of Golden era. Theres a short video of Veeraphol aka "death mask" interview for his top 5 favourite fighters. Out of the 5 fighters was Somrak. Veeraphol said there were two match up with somrak, and he cancelled it both times. He said that fighing somrak will make him "sia muay"(เสียมวย). "Sia muay" means making you look like amateurs, makes your form broken, frustrating to fight against and gives you headache. After fighting him it doesn't leave them as a fighter on the inside. There are no subtitle in the video but here it is ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jhme5dNJiDs.html

Somrak is really a legend. Sad that many foreigners don’t know about him. He’s known to toy his opponents. He was an orca in the ring.

Somrak is my favourite Thai fighter, but let's be honest. It should have been him vs Floyd for the Gold medal match. Floyd was robbed

Somruck was a fantastic fighter, both him and Saenchai were students of Pipah Jockey Gym from when they were kids. You can see him in the background when Saenchai was receiving the belt.

One of my favorite fighters

สมรักษ์ กลางวันชกมวยสมัครเล่น กลางคืนชกมวยไทย ในวันเดียวกันสมรักษ์ ยังทำมาแล้ว👍👍

ประสบการณ์สำคัญมากสำหรับมวยไทย มวยไทยจะเก่งได้เพราะประสบการณ์ในสังเวียน มวยไทยที่เก่งๆ สังเกตุดู ว่าเขาผ่านการชกมาเท่าไร เช่น 40 ครั้ง 120 ครั้ง ดูจากตรงนี้พอช่วยได้บ้างว่าใครเก่งกว่าใคร ปกติผู้จัดในเวทีมาตราฐาน เขาไม่ให้ชกกัน มันดูตลก และเสื่อมศรัทธาต่อนักมวย แต่ในวงการพนันอะไรก็เกิดขึ้นได้

Thanks for the vídeo, at this level, muay thai/boxing is pure art ❤️

2:01 How to use shoulder in fighting. Very beautiful.

Man what a beast. I wish Muay Thai was more popular in the US.

One of the best defensive muaythai. Nobody wanna challenge him, cause they will lose their bet(because of his defensive and counter skill and gym reputation he represent)​. Unfortunatey, we don't have more video in his prime. ไม่ได้โม้ (No bullshit)​that what he said.

Somrak had a chit-chat with Samart about the day when he was a rookie. That's really funny. He said the gambler offered him one million baht to surrender in that match. He returned the money to the gambler and said you bet this on me. You will never lose it. This video is on Samart's channel ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S1Sfvra6lQo.html

Wow i only came to know of him after this video, what a technician.

Samart Payakaroon is my favorite. I’ve never seen Somrak praised before

Love this story as it’s one of the few examples of the universe making things right seeing as they ripped him off in Muay Thai so he went onto Win the Olympics. Any videos on him in your archives fighting or his documentary?

Not only him, this whole video is on another level .. amazing video Lawrence .. u made me feel so good and its 5am here .. after god i owe u this morning 👊🏼✨♥️

My new hero!! Thanks!!

Great video A BiG Thank you......... Enjoyed and Liked

We Were Robbed Of Somrak vs Mayweather

Another really good video. I love it. 👍❤

I freaking love this channel

I knew him the old school muaythai so owesome tecnik Martial arts from Thailand and so mentor to seanchai to makes he really good skill tecnik went he get fight with oppenent seanchai the best this era

Thanks for this video ! And thanks to those legends who still make us dreamin !!!

These great fighters with humility, kindness and humbleness. Great human beings.

Wow. A true legend ....

Thai fighters are on different levels of physical discipline, intellectual understanding, and spiritual dedication; tough to beat all that.

_His protege _*_(saenchai)_*_ fights & taunts exactly like him_

its like watching the characters in the game doing those flashy combos. The most complete standup fighter of all time no doubt.

Thanks for this info...never knew about him before

It is so dope you posted that bracket @ 3:06, just shows the quality of Kamsing's striking if he dominated the competition that much with some of the names on there.

Vc esqueceu de citar sua rivalidade com Ramon Dekkers, as lutas q eles tiveram foram lendárias e na minha opinião foram os dois maiores nakmuay da era de ouro.

he had gold medal olympic boxing?? and then becoming one of the muay thai legend? amazing

Never beat all muay thai champion coz they are avoid Somrak.

Somrak was more talented than Saenchai, but he was just too much of a showman.

3:07 we almost had a boxing match between this legend and Floyd Mayweather, .... wow . Would have been crazy looking baco

I could be mistaken, but I believe that his very last fight was an exhibition fight against a Muay Thai fighter in which his opponent fought under regular MT rules but Somrak was restricted to using only punches and elbows...... and he still won.

I love these videos! Thanks for the knowledge and work!

May he lives long !

Great video. Thank you for doing these forgotten warriors justice

I love this man he is brilliant fighter!!

Imagine him vs Mayweather that fight should have happened. Somruk is one of the best and avoided fighters in Muay Thai 🙏

The last match the rule is : Somrak cannot use his leg to kick or to check kick. He can use only punch and elbow. If not he lose.

Juan Fontaniel is the greatest treasure for Thailand boxing we've ever had. And the greatest treasure we've ever lost.

Un artista. Destaca su Style...

Great video as usual!

Absolutely amazing fighter. I love his style 👍👊💪

it would be better to put his name in the title to give him more exposure

Amazing analysis!

Holy shit i forgot Mayweather was in that Olympics!!

4:40 it looks like he thought about a throwing a knee hahha

Hi lawrence should do a somjit video to he is a gold medal himself

Only the best and true Muay Thai fighters are born in Thailand. Thai pride to all my Thais out there. 🥊🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭

dang, senchai was so young.....

your channel is a gem

Some people are just beyond gifted at kicking people’s ass.

He plays movies with Jet Li in Fearless

There is nothing special about Muay Thai. These people start training at a very young age and become professionals at a very young age. Fighting is their career cause that's the only way that they stay away from poverty. If you train only a couple of hours a week, your Muay Thai will suck and you will lose to other martial arts too.

เลิศศิลาบอกว่า เขาร้องไห้หลายครั้งเวลาลองเชิงกับสมลักษณ์ เขาสู้ไม่ได้เลย

I always said Saenchai had the best boxing, now I see why

ที่ไม่เคยเป็นแชมป์เพราะแชมเปี้ยนไม่อยากชกด้วย ชกด้วยก็แพ้ ชกไปก็เสียมวย เลี่ยงได้เลี่ยง