The rules favor the cocky taekwondo blackbelt, and yet he still got destroyed by the Muay Thai legend. Why did this happen? In this episode, we explore when a Taekwondo blackbelt champion challenged a great Muay Thai champion, Changpuek Kiatsongrit.

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  1. I got my Taekwondo black belt in 1983 while working in S. Korea but always found it nearly useless in a fight, were my boxing training was much more useful. I'd advise anyone who's interested in trying MMA or just self defence to go down the Muay thai or Ju Jitsu route.

  2. I totally agree with your video, TK looks good against TK fighters but against styles that base there training on body conditioning it is next to useless unless of course you are caught by a solid head kick, I am now not in my prime but still go through my basics of Kyokushinkia of which body conditioning is very basic as is basic punch and kick strikes, I am not saying that as with most styles of martial arts if you go back to there origins they are much stronger than now, TK has been watered down to fit the Olympics, in doing so it has lost its origins, my first sensei when in my teens told our beginners class if you can't defend yourself in a telephone box, then forget doing martial arts, todays TK would be useless in a telephone box.

  3. I was an amateur boxer as a teenager, and I tried various martial arts in the early 80s when they were all the rage, after you learnt how to see a kick coming, which is easy because they all require 2 movements, nothing still beats boxing.

    I will never forget the wing chun classes I attended a few of, none of them could catch my punches to do their 'swipe, grab, pull and punch' routine, and one frustrated black belt said to me seriously "We don't punch like that!"… I walked out laughing.

    Go up against any highly trained martial arts guy, and 2 things happen, 1/ they have never experienced feigning, so the moment you flinch or throw a 1/4 punch, they full react it with their 'moves', and leave themselves completely open,

    and 2/ when you hit them in the face for the first time ever in their lives, even just a love tap, all their years of training falls out the window. Their faces go bright red, they lose control, and worst of all, to protect their face, they tilt their heads backwards leaving their jaw completely exposed. That of course takes all the power out of their punches as well. Try it, tilt your head back and try punching …

    If you're going to do martial arts, go do jujitsu, or other styles that have holds.

  4. Muay Thai is a Chad martial art as a indian we also have a Muay Thai like art called Musti Yuddha it's literally Muay Thai but it's dirtier it has eye gouches and shii

  5. Tae Kwon Do: I can kick you 1000 ways 1000 times.
    Muay Thai: all I need is 1 kick.

    I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once. I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times. – Bruce Lee

  6. Muay Thai fighters throw every strike with malicious intent. They WANT to hurt their opponents every single time they expend energy. This leads to Muay Thai fighters also being able to take a lot of punishment, too. The most terrifying combination in a street fight would be a Muay Thai fighter who also knows how to wrestle, so he can stuff any takedown attempts and just beat the living daylights of you. Fuck that.

  7. Taekwondo is a competition fighting style. Muay Thai was taught to kill an opponent if you lost your weapon in war.

    Hmm, I wonder how this is going to go?

    I think Chang went easy on this guy. How many times does the taekwondo guy just turn his back and take his time turning around? In a real MMA match, he wouldn't have gotten away with that once, much less a dozen times in a match.

  8. So many take wrong things about Taekwondo as fighting legend, but really, Taekwondo is an art of selflessness most of the styles, but Muay Thai and such as MMA are really trained to defeat their opponents.

  9. It still depends on the person..if you train teakwondo like a fanatic, day and night and you become hard as a teak-tree while having a great technique then you'll win no matter what.

  10. This is so RETRO. In 1970 at Madison Square Garden Aaron Banks held his mixed martial arts matches to determine the best martial art. It was opined by sensei's that it was the practitioner and not the martial art which determined the best art.

  11. Weird, I've done Taekwondo (ITF) in the past and we always held our arms up high to protect us from getting kicked or punched in the head. So why does this Taekwondo fighter keep his arms low?

    Usually when I got tired and noticed I didn't hold my arms high enough anymore, I basically knew something bad was about to happen lol.

    Anyways, I have sparred with Muy Thai fighters and the main thing that got me was they're always moving around from left to right and back again, and they are much better boxers.

    So yeah, they were much better fighters. But holding your arms low would've been a serious problem in Taekwondo as well.

  12. Muay Thai fighter is good, but we have to agree, tai Kwan do fighter is not accurate at all. His spinning back kick, are kick nothing is hitting it's target..

  13. There are bars in Thailand where they do exhibition fights for the foreigners, they're not much and they take it very easy on each other, not anything like the tournament fights. One night, an English dude, pretty drunk, tried to get in the ring and he obviously had some moves, probably studied some martial art, I mean he was a dickhead but I still wouldn't have messed with him. He clearly fancied himself against the exhibition fighters. Huge mistake, they did everything to avoid fighting him until he slapped the referee, then everyone backed away and the smallest of the fighters came forward and proceeded to destroy the poor bastard. The Thai kid was about 2/3rds his height, and half his weight, and the English guy looked in pretty good shape. He got knocked down three times and while I thought "oh great, the gobshite is going to get his arse handed to him" after the second knock down I really hoped he would get some sense and just leave. The third one did it though, eyes rolling in the head, probably a concussion, and a night in jail for his troubles, and everyone in the bar cheering, I didn't like it though, he could have been really hurt and while he deserved to be put in his place, he didn't deserve a brain injury or worse for what he did. Those Mui Thai guys, even the western ones, are some of the hardest bastards you will ever meet.

  14. I’ll give the TKD dude credit for lasting the match after taking serious punishment. Guaranteed he was black and blue the following day.

  15. Idiot low kicks are easy to do, of course the Taekwondo guy should have thrown low kicks and knee strikes, this commentary is one sided and bs, not all TKD black belts are so foolish, we can punch and low kick good as anyone,

  16. That thai dude kicks really fucking hard though, it's like one kick of his is equivalent to 4 or 5 from the other guy in terms of damage.

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