Muay Thai Singapore

Here's a postcard with Santa doing some pad work from Hellfighter.

[acidfree:1159 size=281] Singapore is sending 3 muay thai fighters to the SEA Games 2007: Brenda Shee, Louis Wong and Wong Lei Biao. The team manager is Terence Chea, he will be assisted by Lana Ng. The already famous (for the ones who were at the contender fights) Johnny Chan is the only Singaporean muay thai referee who will join the team.
Yesterday the small but proud muay thai delegation had their orientation meeting at Terence's gym. Mr. Mervyn Tan, the AMAS' general secretary, who also was present at the meeting said this is the first time ever when muay thai athletes are officially representing Singapore abroad.
Louis just came back from Bankgkok where he trained in preparation for the games. Brenda trained at Punch academy, also with Bia, one of the thai trainers in the contender. Lei Biao trained with Lana at TCC. They flew this morning to BKK, then they'll reach Korat by bus.

It's been a while since there were any updates on the show. Seems the postproduction company was busy-busy :-)

The games finished on Saturday. No Singaporean Muay Thai athlets were present, it seems.

The organisers are calling muay thai - Muay - plain and simple and this is what they write (not so bright) about it in the sport presentation on the official website:

Every athlete of Muay only wears trunks, so this sport is more popular for among male athletes.
:hysterical:

Results: http://www.maigoc2007.com/php/item_result.php?lan=en&s=5
Pictures: http://www.maigoc2007.com/Eng/picsub/53.shtml
Rankings: http://www.maigoc2007.com/php/rank_list.php?lan=en&s=5

[acidfree:1027 size=300 popup=1]When the body is the ultimate weapon

Showing started today, 1st of November at Cathay Cineplexes.

From: http://imdb.com/title/tt1090782/

Beyond my expectation for this little gem, 6 September 2007 9/10 Author: ilovetoseethemovie from Thailand

At first, I thought this film was connected around martial action with some revenge among protagonists in its usual kind. However, after having finished watching it, this film is far beyond my expectation for this kind of film I have seen in years since I find my accessibility to this film quite unique.

Although sequences of "Chaiya" boxing are well-choreographed and living up to acrobatic movement by its standard type of fighting, its plot is also satisfactory with subtle and multi-layered storyline, that makes some predictable ending to be easily ignored.

UPDATE 3: See http://muaythai.sg/more_contender_asia_clips#comment-2922
UPDATE2: Found them somewhere else. They'll remove them soon so watch them fast :-)
The fighters of the contender asia:

Jerry Schafer, supervising producer and director for The Contender Asia, made this comment on the latest "The Making Of The Contender Asia" episode available at: http://www.helloworld.com/thecontenderasia.

[acidfree:982 size=300]By Terence Voon for The Straits Times

Two more sports groups have been given National Sports Associations status, bringing the number to 60.

The Amateur Muay Thai Association Singapore (Amas) and Amateur Ice Hockey Association Singapore (AIHA) were granted provisional NSA status by the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) last month, for a year.[...]
For Amas, the decision did not come as a surprise. The association received the green light earlier this month to send four of its fighters to December's South-east Asia Games.

To qualify for the biennial event, an association must have NSA status.

'We are glad that Muay Thai has finally been recognised,' said Amas general secretary Mervyn Tan.

So long... We were thrilled to have you here.
Every Wednesday and Saturday we went to the house and support and cheer for you all. You are formidable athletes, do come back here some day!

Am I right guys? I mean, forget about the oversold tickets and overbooked seats, the fights were awesome!!!
1st undercard was Paul from Punch A. vs new guy from a new gym, then 2nd was Taufiq vs the other dude from the same new gym with a very long name.

[acidfree:938 size=300]UPDATE: Go here for the leaked clips: Contender Asia clips
Live From Master Toddy's Muay Thai Academy, The helloworld Studios, Plus Various Locations around Las Vegas, Nevada USA comes "The Making Of The Contender Asia" with the host Kenny Cole and his guests.

http://www.helloworld.com/thecontenderasia
They broadcasted 3 episodes so far, also you can find some brand new photos there.

To go directly to the shows click here:
http://www.helloworld.com/members_myworld.aspx?ID=THECONTENDERASIA&target=show

Joy BXG won again!!! His low kicks destroyed his oppponet's leg and brought him the victory.
So guys, what do you think about the fights? The russian guy, I believe his name is Vladimir (there was no fight card ](*,) ) was a tough one, very technical, elbowed and kneed his japanese opponent and win clearly.

Congrats to the fighters and the refs Details later!!!!

This is the place where you can show your support for your favourite contender and spread and/or collect rumors. If you're here only to copy and paste all we ask is to provide a link back from your page.

If you're lucky enough (like me :P ) and you saw the fighters while they're in the show, remember what you signed, you cannot tell anything you see or hear there.

I'll start first:

Ok, there is some fights going on this Saturday in front of Plaza Singapura, starting at 12.30. Everybody show up and cheer for all the novices, amateurs and local pros, no tickets are sold so u can just drop by and see the action - for free!

Come check it out and give your support, like many times stated also on this forum, we need to show people that Muaythai is attracting BIG and noisy crowd!

Paul Slowinski won by TKO in the 4th round.
http://muaythai.sg/paul_slowinski_vs_faisal_zakariya

Zach won by TKO as well, in the 1st round. He is the 4th fighter in THE CONTENDER ASIA after Yodsanklai, Arslan Magomedov and John Wayne Parr.
http://muaythai.sg/zach_vs_ky_pinky_fists_fury

Correy gave us the only KO of the evening with a nicely executed cross.

Brenda won by points
http://muaythai.sg/brenda_vs_thai_girl

Here you can watch the first girls match http://muaythai.sg/first_girls_fight

A few photos: http://muaythai.sg/fists_fury_photos

Congrats to all the fighters - guys and girls!

Paul Slowinski (K-1 Oceanic and Euro GP Champion, WMC 4 Time Heavyweight Champion) will defend his WMC World Heavyweight title against the African Champion Faisal Zakariya in Singapore on the 28th of July. Paul is on top form at the moment, can Faisal take the title and belt away from him?