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BKFC Asia has booked a showdown between two legends, targeted for March 2023. All-time kickboxing great Buakaw Banchamek will face off against Muay Thai legend Saenchai Saepong in a bare-knuckle boxing match. Saenchai is a multi-time Muay Thai stadium world champion with an incredible record of 314-41-5. Buakaw has faced some of the greatest kickboxers […]
BKFC Asia has booked a showdown between two legends, targeted for March 2023. All-time kickboxing great Buakaw Banchamek will face off against Muay Thai legend Saenchai Saepong in a bare-knuckle boxing match.
Saenchai is a multi-time Muay Thai stadium world champion with an incredible record of 314-41-5. Buakaw has faced some of the greatest kickboxers in history including Nieky Holzken, John Wayne Parr, Giorgio Petrosyan, and Masato Kobayashi among many others. This fighter held world titles in Muay Thai and Kickboxing, including two championship wins at the prestigious K-1 MAX World Grand Prix.
The Thai-born athlete is recently coming off a bare-knuckle win as he earned KO victory in round one of September 2022 at BKFC Thailand 3.
BKFC Asia CEO Nick Chapman offered a breakdown of this legendary matchup during an interview with LowKickMMA’s Tim Wheaton, he explained:
“Saenchai has the best fight IQ I’ve ever seen. He’s a wizard … Buakaw is a beast. Buakaw has power, strength, his toughness is next level.”
However, the size difference is notable. BKFC will be having the larger Thai-born fighter cut weight for this match. And to help even the odds, clinch time will be reduced. Chapman continued:
“Buakaw is slightly bigger so he’s got that slight advantage. So Saenchai was concerned about the size. So I said okay. Well, we’re going to make Buakaw cut to 68.5 [kg], [Saenchai] will come up half a kilo because walks around at 68 … We’re reducing the clinch. They’re only allowed two-seconds and then split so Buakaw can’t lean on him and wear him down … Zero gloves, zero wraps, completely bare-knuckle.”
The promotion was also concerned that Buakaw and Saenchai may be too friends with each other. The two legends were offered a friendly exhibition match but they declined. Both said, they want a fight and will be aiming for knockout wins.
See the full interview with BKFC Asia CEO below:
While Buakaw vs Saenchai will be under boxing rules, Chapman explains that there are future plans in 2023 to expand into bare-knuckle Muay Thai fighting. The BKFC Asia CEO is unable to reveal very much, but he did illustrate while speaking to LowKickMMA:
“It is something we’re discussing with the big boss David Feldman. Because look, bare-knuckle fighting championship, it’s not bare-knuckle boxing, not bare-knuckle kickboxing, not bare-knuckle Muay Thai, it’s bare-knuckle fighting. Which means we’re opening up to a much wider audience … We’re going to launch a new platform; BKFC Bare-Knuckle Muay Thai.”
Preparing for his Octagon return next year, former two-weight UFC champion, Conor McGregor has shared photos of himself training at Straight Blast Gym Naas – appearing massive in stature as he prepares for a UFC comeback. McGregor, a former undisputed lightweight and featherweight champion under the promotion’s banner, has been sidelined since July of last […]
Preparing for his Octagon return next year, former two-weight UFC champion, Conor McGregor has shared photos of himself training at Straight Blast Gym Naas – appearing massive in stature as he prepares for a UFC comeback.
McGregor, a former undisputed lightweight and featherweight champion under the promotion’s banner, has been sidelined since July of last year, headlining UFC 264 against former interim lightweight titleholder, Dustin Poirier.
The 34-year-old suffered a first round doctor’s stoppage TKO loss at the event, after he fractured his left tibia and fibula at the end of the first frame.
Undergoing a surgical procedure to address the gruesome injury, the Crumlin native has recently wrapped up filming in the Dominican Republic, as he prepares to lead the remake of action movie, Roadhouse – alongside Jake Gyllenhaal.
Announcing plans to return to training and fighting multiple times before the release of his Hollywood blockbuster debut, McGregor must first spend a period of 6 months in the USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) testing pool before he makes a UFC return, unless he obtains an exemption to compete first.
Sharing snaps of his return to Naas facility, Straight Blast Gym, McGregor – who confirmed how he would be returning at the welterweight limit of 170lbs, appears to have packed on considerable mass in his time away from the Octagon.
“The size of Conor McGregor,” Chisanga Malata tweeted accompanied by a picture of Conor McGregor and Moldovan wrestling coach, Sergey Pikulskiy.
The size of Conor McGregor
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— Chisanga Malata (@Chisanga_Malata) November 4, 2022
Without a victory in his last two Octagon appearances, knockout ace, McGregor’s most recent professional win came in the form of a 40-second high kick and strikes knockout triumph over UFC veteran and former title chaser, Donald Cerrone in January 2020.
Weighing up a potential fight against the likes of Islam Makhachev, Jorge Masvidal, Kamaru Usman, Tony Ferguson, and Michael Chandler in his time away from active competition, an official opponent for the Dubliner’s anticipated return has yet to be confirmed by the organization.
Earlier this year, Australian bare-knuckle fighter Tai Emery created one of the biggest viral moments in BKFC history. She earned an incredible first-round knockout win and to celebrate she jumped on the ropes and flashed the audience. BKFC Asia CEO Nick Chapman explained that he got in a lot of trouble for this. The BKFC […]
Earlier this year, Australian bare-knuckle fighter Tai Emery created one of the biggest viral moments in BKFC history. She earned an incredible first-round knockout win and to celebrate she jumped on the ropes and flashed the audience.
BKFC Asia CEO Nick Chapman explained that he got in a lot of trouble for this. The BKFC founder and CEO David Feldman and the Thai Sports Authority both got Chapman in hot water. BKFC was forced to give a statement of apology and pay a fine. The fine, according to Chapman, he would gladly pay again.
In an exclusive interview with Tim Wheaton of LowKickMMA, Chapman said:
“Tai Emery is an absolute legend … She just expressed herself in the way she felt at the time.”
Nick Chapman also revealed the name and date of Tai Emery’s next opponent. The BKFC Asia CEO announced to LowKickMMA that Emery will be facing Po Denman on December 10.
Chapman said:
“What I will tell you the woman she’s fighting on the next event is a bare-knuckle veteran … She is the only woman to ever knock out a man in a legitimate bare-knuckle fight. She fought a guy and knocked him out … That is going to be one badass fight. So Tai, as you know, she can fight.”
See the full interview with Nick Chapman the BKFC Asia CEO below:
Thailand’s Po Denman is a dangerous opponent who is currently on a nine-fight win streak in boxing. She will be making it ten in a row but standing in her way will be the knockout queen Tai Emery.
Emery has lived a highly interesting life. Currently, this Australian-born athlete is living in Thailand and competing in bare-knuckle boxing, but previous to this she held jobs as an electrician, thermographer, and Lingerie Football Player. She loves BKFC because of the skin-to-skin contact it offers. While speaking in an interview with Calf Kick Sports, she explained:
“With BKFC it is so raw … I guess wearing gloves it takes something away. Like, there’s something so raw when all of a sudden I don’t have to have gloves … I think yeah having that grip and just like skin-to-skin contact is such a crazy, crazy thing.”
Ariel Helwani has weighed-in on the recent controversy regarding Kyrie Irving’s apparent endorsement of a strongly anti-Semitic film. The NBA star has established himself as an outspoken and occasionally controversial figure during his basketball caree…
Ariel Helwani has weighed-in on the recent controversy regarding Kyrie Irving’s apparent endorsement of a strongly anti-Semitic film. The NBA star has established himself as an outspoken and occasionally controversial figure during his basketball career, and most recently Irving made headlines for posting a link to the 2018 film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black…
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Ariel Helwani has weighed-in on the recent controversy regarding Kyrie Irving’s apparent endorsement of a strongly anti-Semitic film. The NBA star has established himself as an outspoken and occasionally controversial figure during his basketball caree…
Ariel Helwani has weighed-in on the recent controversy regarding Kyrie Irving’s apparent endorsement of a strongly anti-Semitic film. The NBA star has established himself as an outspoken and occasionally controversial figure during his basketball career, and most recently Irving made headlines for posting a link to the 2018 film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black…
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