Whose Muay Thai impresses you most in MMA?

[Jimmy Boogaloo]

I thought Mark Glover's Thai was fucking incredible against One-Two Pastou.

[Dave78]

Rob McCullough has a nice style to watch, very technically good

[steve_langford]

can we get some vids posted guys? Im keen to watch some of these guys in action

[groundskeeperwillie]

gotta be jose aldo

[ocuana]

Indeed my serious answer would second razor rob. His muay thai is fantastic. Few years back, might have said yves edwards. Love that fella.

[Jim_Williams]

What is 'True Muay Thai'?

Just because the Dutch tend to use there hands more doesnt make it a different style.
Pacqiaou(?) and Mayweather have completely different styles but both are boxers.

[blanker]

What is 'True Muay Thai'?

Just because the Dutch tend to use there hands more doesnt make it a different style.
Pacqiaou(?) and Mayweather have completely different styles but both are boxers.

dutch style kickboxing was as much Kyokushin karate mixed with boxing as it was muay thai, or so i am told. traditionally muay thai dosnt have alot of punchs at all apart from streight punchs and swings and if you watch some of the old fights its just two guys standing in the middle of the ring trading blows until one drops. Today there alot closer as thay have adapted to each other.

[briant_gumble]

actually whilst daley is 'dutch rules really now' his early fights in cage rage for me had the best adaptation of true MT - still think he throws the best proper thai elbows in the game ....

silvas is good, etims also v good....

jon jones has phil nurses style through and through....put him in a pair of thai shorts and hes a lanky version of phil !

best thai though (non ufc) ramba m16 somdet....even in his MMA he throughs killer bodykicks....

He rarely throws the power roundhouse though usually just the left kick.

If your going to go with people like that then malaipet should be up there although I think he's mainly cross trained in groundfighting not TDD.

Josh thomson is probably not the chief MT guy in mma but he used lots of nice strikes in his first fight with gilbert melendez that you rarely see like front kicks to the body and head.

[briant_gumble]

What is 'True Muay Thai'?

Just because the Dutch tend to use there hands more doesnt make it a different style.
Pacqiaou(?) and Mayweather have completely different styles but both are boxers.

I kind of agree this can get nauseatingly semantic.

I'd say if you look at the way yod hits the pads at 15 seconds in you can see he doesn't focus on keeping a tight boxing guard or anything like that just focuses on thumping the pads as hard as he physically can;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUAUoHtsc48

If he had cross-trained boxing like many K-1 fighters and buakaw did for max then returning his hand to his face and keeping a tight boxing guard might be higher on his list of priorities.

The results speak for themselves because yod knocks a lot of guys out with his hands.

[Iconoclast]

Those leg kicks were destroying Lawler until... well, you know.

Manhoefs leg kicks in that fight immediately made me want to take Muay Thai seriously.