boutBuakaw at K-1 Max, 2004
บัวขาว ใน K-1 Max 2547 · buakhao nai K-1 Max
Won the tournament with two of the eight limbs switched off.
K-1: no elbows, clinch broken
What it is
Buakaw Banchamek won the K-1 World Max tournament in Japan in 2004, beating John Wayne Parr and Masato, and won it again in 2006.
The long version
K-1 rules are kickboxing rules: no elbows, and the clinch is broken. A muay thai fighter entering that tournament gives up the elbow and the knee-in-the-clinch — half of what makes the sport what it is — and Buakaw won it twice on the remainder.
Inference — which is why the world's picture of muay thai is a man throwing hard round kicks and not a man holding another man's head. The version that travelled was the version television could sell, and television could not sell the clinch.
Connected to
- Buakaw Banchamek Who won it.
- The clinch What was taken out.
- The elbow And what else.
- ONE Championship The next version of the same deal.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Buakaw Banchamek — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Buakaw Banchamek — Wikipedia (en)
- Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there