To NOI,

Thank you very much for such a huge collection of rare photos. I have still been in the process of recovering the old photos from the Japanese kickboxing cene, unfortunately one of my brothers sold some of the magazines for quick cash. I am now contacting some of the old gym mates to get some help from them to collect historical photos. It seems like people in Japan nowadays treat the old days as a distant past and very few keeps track of the earlier days.
By the way ,do you have more of Sensak Muangsurin? As far as I'm concerned, he only fought in Japan twice. The first one was a war against Yoshimitsu Tamashiro. Muangsurin raptured Tamashiro's internal organs with the devastating knee, so much for the guy known for his punching power. The second was after he captured the boxing crown. He defended his title against then ex-champion Guts Ishimatsu. Muangsurin was too much for Ishimatsu, who was lighter and over-the-hill. Anyway, keep up the good work and thank you very much.


To Mr. Mike Miles,

Thank you very much for your input for the Wilson/Prasamit bout in '83. I too was told that Wilson was forced to lose weight. But now what, he actually made the Thai to bleed from the nose, which I find hard to believe. As for the shortening the scheduled rounds, I think Wilson was under the impression that the fight would be 3-minute, 7-rounds, similar to what the late Howard Jackson and Sam Montgomery experienced in Japan. As for all the harrassings he received, that is something virtually every non-Thai fighter had to face one way or another, especially when he was considered a threat to the Thais. Genshu Igari fought many times in Lumpinee stadium. One of the worst he experienced was that his opponent was substituted to a left-handed fighter just hour before the fight. When Toshio Fujiwara was trying to establish himself as a ranked fighter, he was constantly treated two guards standing in front of his hotel room all night up to the next morning. Thus he had a hard time to get sufficient sleep. The other times he was offered poisoned lemons for snack. Even the Dutch legend Rob Kaman suffered some harrassings like getting forced to dress quick and show up in the ring ealier than the wahat was originally scheduled. Thus, Kaman could not get enough time to warm up. Compare the days these earlier legends fought, the current fighters are having easier time since, according to the opinion of Kenji Kurosaki, the Thai officials are getting softened up in order to make the sport of muay thai more internationally appealing.

By the way, the Wilson/Prasanmit fight took place in the Radjamnern stadium, not Lumpinee. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Wing chun master Stephan T.K.Chan must know some info about the Wilson/Prasobchai fight in Hong Kong.