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Muay Thai

Recently One Championship has seen a few high profile Thais losing to Westerners. Superbon lost to Chingiz Allazov and Nong-O lost to Jonathan Haggerty. The strange cult of martial arts fans on the internet cheered the idea that Muay Thai was slipping and in fact, not so great after all, ignoring that Allazov and Haggerty are both themselves, Muay Thai fighters, who just happen to be European.

The real question is are Thai fighters declining? Is the rest of the world finally catching up to Thailand? The answer is quite simple, no.

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