BRUTAL vicious ELBOWS for 49 seconds
Muay Thai sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, is a Thai martial art and full-contact combat sport that uses stand-up striking, sweeps, and various clinching techniques. This discipline is known as the "Art of eight limbs", as it is characterised by the combined use of fists, elbows, knees and shins.
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The Kicking Machine” Superlek Kiatmoo9 continued his glorious ride to the Mount Rushmore of Muay Thai with a scintillating sub-minute knockout of Jonathan “The General” Haggerty in the main event of ONE 168: Denver.
The ONE Flyweight Kickboxing World Champion arrived inside the packed Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, game to prove why he’s widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound striker in the world today. And he couldn’t have written the script any better.
He captured the Englishman’s ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai World Title to join an elite list of two-sport World Champions at the organization’s second on-ground spectacle in the U.S., which aired live in North American primetime on Friday, September 6.
It wasn’t all one-way traffic, though, as the Kiatmoo9 Gym athlete was forced to deal with a heavy onslaught from Haggerty. The two-sport king came in guns blazing, working behind his left straights and sweeping low kicks.
Rodtang Jitmuangnon is a Thai professional Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer. He currently competes in ONE Championship and is the reigning ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion.