Well Tony,
Thank you for that detailed account.I disagree with you At no time did Samkor land a telling shot Dave was completly unmarked and unfazed through out the fight. David had a far Higher work rate.He conrolled the fight was balanced and the aggressor his boxing skills and elbows opened samkor up and had a telling effect (in particular the uppercut and spear elbow).


David neutralized samkor There was no advantage to either fighter in the clinch . David landed numerous Effective elbows the cut was deep and I seen a lot of fights stopped on less.

samkor was trying to lure david in to him in the final round knowing he was having no success . David stuck to the fight plan and maintained the distance and incresed the pressure and tempo to dominate the fight.

So we are strongly divided on how we score Muay Thai.

My Proffesional fighters that live and breath Muay Thai all day every day watching stadium fights and are schooled in the knowledge that you must understand the rules to win the fight are reading the wrong rule book sorry I do not except that I believe one of us is wrong so who is it?


This a objective so let us forget personalites and look at principles, we are both using the same critera (I think for scoring ).I consider elbows opening a deep cut effective I consider superior ring craft (the use of lateral motion and body movement to nullify a opponent effective, ). Not being off balanced or controlled effective , Forcing the pace effective . landing several jumping elbows and sneaking in spear elbows to control and dominate the fight, David`s low kicks where use to disrupt and nullify samkors kicks effective!


If this was two Thai fighters in BKK stadium I am certain David hands would have gone up (as I would have seen the odds in his favour by the gamblers ringside ).

I cannot speak for anyone else ,However many other full time proffesionals trainers expressed similar views to myself.

This is my view hard to be objective to be honest so anyone else ringside?