Just watched the whole fight. Dang, that is a brutal sport. Reminds me of the early days of the UFC, when there were absolutely no rules at all. You could legally kick the head of a downed opponent, and head butt. Lethwei is Sparta level combat.
It's rare to see that sort of combat method these days. Have you seen how he looks slow and tired all the time? He doesn't look like he's even attacking most of the time, as if he barely was capable to fight, as if he was drunk or completely tired, and he doesn't even look like much physically speaking, he looks almost like straight out of a north korean camp, barely any muscle left, malnourished for months
Reality is that he's fucking dangerous on stand up
Everything in timing, technique, feints, endurance. Whether he's fresh or completely burnt out, his style remains the same, the method doesn't change, unlike a lot of good fighters who can't use the same set of techniques when they are fresh or tired, such as spinning back kicks and such, consuming lots of power
And he strikes pretty hard but again it doesn't looks like it. And it's perfect that way; his attacks don't look like attacks
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