Dear all,

May your hair, your teeth, your face-lift, your abs and your stocks not fall; and may your blood pressure, your triglycerides, your cholesterol, your white blood count and your mortgage interest not rise.

Train hard and have fun doing it!

Happy New Year!

To All,
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it and happy holidays to those who dont.

I wish success to all the fighters,trainers, camps and families in the new year.

Your in Muay Thai and best hoilday wishes from Ireland.

Qualifications are taking part all over the world. Read here about the

Contender Asia South Aftrica - Bakhulule Baai,

Contender Asia Madrid Qualifier - Rafi Zouheir (Spain),

Contender Asia Thailand Qualifier - Khem Fairtex and

Contender Asia Australia Qualifier - Eli 'Mad Dog'.

The rest of the results can be found here Contender Asia Fans.com

A very interesting GP, quite a few KOs and a dirty final

Badr Hari VS Peter Aerts  Read more »»

Awesome fights!!! Great show guys!!! The amateurs had even a KO ! Nice high kick.
UPDATE
Here are the official results, thanks to Terence!

Happened on November 6th.

The results:
Wang Kang (China) vs Yoshitomi Matsumoto (Japan), 60 kg
Winner: Wang by 5th round TKO (3 knock downs in round 5)

Zhang De Zheng (China) vs King-Chung Ng (Hong Kong), 63 kg
Winner: Ng by unanimous decision

Jason Wong (Hong Kong) vs Yuji Anezaki (Japan), 58 kg
Winner: Wong by unanimous decision

Zach (Singapore) vs Roel Rink (Holland)
Winner: Zach by split decision

Sofian Seboussi (France) vs Rambo Kingboxing (Thailand)
Winner: Rambo by split decision

Pak-Wing Heung (Hong Kong) vs Zidov Dominik (Croatia/ Switzerland)  Read more »»

It appears the Malaysian Tourism Authority won the bid for Season Two of Contender Asia.

How about that? I hope they'll film it in JB

Unbelievable fights!!!! Congrats to all the fighters, great show!
I was really impressed with under card fights, the Thai refs and judges were too, they said "your fighters have heart"
As far as organization goes, much better than the last contender one - correct choice of location and size, big enough yet small enough to pack in atmosphere without making it look empty. Sunday the place filled up almost completely. It was a successful event, we really hope FWA will continue organizing the S1 and the rest of the gyms will take part.
Congrats to FWA, good job!

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Despite the f-1, the madness in town and the arbitrary restrictions imposed on the gyms forcing them not to attend the event, quite a sizable number of fans turned up for the first S1 championship in Singapore.

The first S1 belt went to Ng Choon Hao of Lana Muay Thai, he won by points against Neo Jit Wee of FWA. For the second belt Richmond Leong from the same Lana MT fought Mathias Gallo of Italy, Rich brought the belt home.

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I will post updates here, easier to read than in the comments list.

2 weight categories: Lightweight and Middleweight.

16 boxers in each category in the qualifications on Sept 27th (lighweight) and 28th (middleweight), then the finals 8 men tournament on Oct 25th and 26th. Place: Tampines Safra.

Prize: the S1 belt and $5000 !!!
Updates: New Paper article
Championship details
Factsheet

The fighters are not locked in yet, all the gyms still have time to participate.

NEWS FROM THAILAND

WMC, IFMA and MuayThai Institute have closed a deal to join in a partnership with Thai Global Network (TGN) to show Muaythai events weekly to an estimated viewership of 350 million people worldwide in 170 countries. This is another important milestone in Muaythai, as this partners TGN with all 118 member countries who will have the chance to show their highlight events on a weekly basis to every corner of the globe. The events will be aired prime time in Asia every Tuesday night from 20:15 p.m. – 22:15 p.m (Thai time). Stay tuned for events from all 5 continents and let the world see the beauty and excitement of Muaythai.

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Ok, so every Tuesday night, there are fights at the MTI at 21:15 Singapore time. UPDATE: Wednesday too!
The administrator at MTI has forwarded me the following link http://truemusic2.truelife.com/home/player/player_livetv.php?guid=20. From what gaijinu (thanks, btw) has managed to figure out:  Read more »»

Our muaythai.sg members Grake and Kurenai_19 are present at the scene and they have a very sad news to report: Zach dislocated his shoulder and lost his match by TKO.

Also Zidov lost to the Iranian Abbas Ahmadi.

Grake just SMS-ed in the full results:

1st match: Abbas Ahmadi (Iran) won by points against Zidov
2nd match: WMC Female inter title: Tiana "Tiger" Caverley (AUS) won by TKO against Olivia Jackson (KSA)
3rd match: TCA 2 selection part 1 Super 4 fight Bernard Radin vs Tengku Sharizal, Tengku won by points  Read more »»

INTERNATIONAL MUAYTHAI SUPERFIGHTS 2008

Singapore’s Kim Khan Zaki to face Brazilian Champion Leonardo at the International MuayThai Superfights in Malaysia on July 5th.

Contender Asia star Kim Khan Zaki or “ Zach” of Singapore will meet Brazilian Champion Leonardo "Amendoim" Monteiro in the "International MuayThai Superfights” here in Malaysia on July 5th at Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam, Selangor.
The fight will be part of an extraordinary ‘World MuayThai Council (WMC) Inter-Continental Championship’ fight card that includes other Contender Asia Stars-Dzhabar ‘The Genghis Khan’ Askerov and Zidov ‘Akuma’ Dominik pitting against Singha Siri, the Southern Thailand Champion and Iranian hardman Abbas Ahmadi respectively.  Read more »»

Are:

1st place: Dennis Toh Wei Sheng won a pair of VIP tickets, poster and a T-shirt
2nd place: Siti Suhaila Binte Bahari won a T-shirt and a poster

Congratulations!!!

Thank you very much for your emails, we were absolutely impressed by the huge interest shown by the muay thai SG fans.

Dennis, go up there and scream as hard as you can so we can hear you from here:

Contender Asia stars Dzhabar Askerov of the UAE, Zidov Dominik of Switzerland and Kim Khan Zaki “Zach” of Singapore will be amongst the star-studded fight card in the upcoming "International MuayThai Superfights 2008” as they fight for Inter-Continental titles in Malaysia on Saturday July 5th at Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam.

It will be a match-up of colossal proportions as respective fighters bringing their wealth of experience and illustrious careers to the ring.

Iranian Abbas ‘Hardman’ Ahmadi, who boasts a fight record of 42 wins, including 14 KOs will face off with Zidov ‘Akuma’ Domink . Zidov considered ‘the bad boy fighter’ has become one of the most recognizable faces in Malaysia since the success of The Contender Asia reality series.

So can they put on a classic fight? Will there be an upset on the cards? Come on down to witness it.

Programme Highlights:

Undercard Fight
M'sian Super 4 Contender Asia Qualifier
WMC World Female Title Fight
WMC Inter-Continental Championships
The Contender Asia Season 2, Malaysian qualifier, super 4

Action starts 7pm sharp.  Read more »»

It's been more than 2 months since the last local fights, excluding the TCA finale and the hot chicks fights at Zouk. It's getting booooooring, anybody there?!??

Hearing this, ppl in charge? Get to work and do something pleeeeeeeeeeeease

Thank you!

I just watched it!!!! It's AWESOME A must see!!!!!!!!!! Nicharee "Jeeja" Vismistananda has spent the last four years training in martial arts and some movie buffs are touting her as Thailand's very own action heroine. And she's hot This film is probably one of the most anticipated Thai martial arts film since Tony Jaa kicked and elbowed his way on to the screen in “Ong Bak”.

Need to give credit also to the supporting staff, they worked like hell on this one. Also they used a lot of ice packs. All the fight scenes are real - as real as they can be, at the end you can see a few mild accidents... poor guys

The director is saying: "Women can't compete with males when it comes to stunts and action. Besides, the bar has been raised now that we have a big star like Jaa. That's why we chose to do something different rather than try and match up to Jaa's standard".
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