I am getting confused again about this Muaythai scoring, I know that by sticking my neck out and asking the following questions that I am setting myself up for ridicule. But I am struggling with a few things, so at the risk of sounding stupid ......

We are constantly being told that boxing and low kicks do not score in muaythai and that if a fighter only does these techniques, he is not doing ‘real’ muaythai.

Well I think Anuwat is a bit of a legend, but he has won a lot of his fights with punches!

Anuwat has twice been voted as fighter of the year in Thailand, but....... if he punches a lot and that is not a ‘real’ muaythai technique, how or why was he voted fighter of the year twice??

I have just watched the Anuwat fight against Liam Harrison http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTAxNDQ1NDIw.html

(Great respects to Liam Harrison for all his fantastic achievements!)

It was a great fight but ...... Anuwat wasn’t using ‘real muaythai’ techniques!!!! He was ONLY boxing and low kicking, 2 techniques that we are being told do NOT score. Surely someone as experienced as Anuwat, a Thai who fights regularly in the Stadiums, would know this (if it’s true).

Why if low kicks and punches do not score, why would Anuwat use these two ‘non scoring’ techniques?? Seems a very strange tactic.

If the fight had not been stopped, would Anuwat have lost the fight, because he was only boxing and low kicking and these are not good Muay Thai techniques?

Of course if all eight techniques in the ‘science of eight limbs’ scored, then it would make sense to use his boxing and low kicks, if that is what he is good at and they are working. When you read the rules, they say that all techniques score and after watching someone like Anuwat use them so well I am once again confused about what is really true.

If they are effective, do low kicks and punches score? And if they don’t why did Anuwat use this tactic in this fight, why has he won so many fights with punches and why was he voted the best boxer in Thailand twice?