Chapter 67: Muay Thai Tournament Begins
August 18th.
4 p.m.
Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok.
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, where the Muay Thai Championship will be held today, and the most famous gyms from all over the country will send their most outstanding Muay Thai fighters to participate in this Muay Thai extravaganza and compete for Muay Thai titles at all levels.
We at Lumpinee Stadium are very honored to be able to host this event, during this Muay Thai Tournament, we will provide the best competition conditions for all Muay Thai masters who come to participate in the competition, and will also provide the best and most comfortable viewing environment for all spectators who come to watch the competition, and I hope everyone can enjoy the happiness brought by the national art of Muay Thai during this competition."
Under the passionate instigation of the host, all the spectators who came to watch the match stood up and began to applaud the holding of this Muay Thai competition.
The host of the Lumpinee Stadium did his best to get the atmosphere in place, trying to get the crowd into the atmosphere of the fight as quickly as possible.
In the backstage preparation area, Chen Sheng has already started to warm up, he only has one match today, the game is around six o'clock, if this one wins, the next game will start tomorrow afternoon or evening.
The game adopts a single round-robin elimination system, which means that a battle is won or lost, and if you lose a game, you will be eliminated directly, and there is no chance of redemption.
The number of participants is relatively large, and there are three sub-venues in Bangkok at the same time, and the knockout matches of this Muay Thai tournament are also being held, Lumpinee Stadium is the main venue, and Chen Sheng is divided into the main venue, so that there is no need to go back and forth.
This is also the treatment of these famous boxing gyms in Popham, the boxers who come out of these boxing gyms are naturally valued by the boxing stadium, and the audience also buys the accounts of these famous boxing gyms, and when betting, they will also look at the background of the boxers.
Soon, the host in the front ring was sensational, successfully igniting the emotions of the audience, and the atmosphere gradually became more and more hot, which also meant that the match was getting closer and closer.
The host in the ring has already begun to introduce the rules of the Muay Thai tournament, and the audience includes fighting fans and gamblers who often watch Muay Thai matches, as well as tourists who are in contact with Muay Thai for the first time, so the host took the trouble to explain the rules of the game carefully, until the audience was a little unbearable and began to whistle.
After the rules were introduced, the host quickly introduced several Muay Thai judges who were involved in the enforcement over the past few days, as well as the media that was in charge of the televised broadcast of the Muay Thai bout.
After all this was done, in anticipation, the live session finally kicked off the curtain of today's big show: the Muay Thai competition.
"Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome the first match of the Muay Thai tournament to the two lightweight fighters, starting with the blue boxer, Charon from the Tiger Gym in Songkhla. Sancabricha"
With a burst of music, the lightweight fighter from Songkhla came out of the passageway, stepped to the rhythm of the music, quickly stepped into the ring, and then saluted the surrounding audience with his hands folded.
"Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome another lightweight fighter in this bout, the Red Side fighter, who is Sugree from Naika Gym in Bangkok. Maurer"
The Bangkok-based fighter also walked into the gym to the accompaniment of music, and it was clear that the crowd was more familiar with the red boxer, and when he entered, the crowd burst into applause, and many of the audience were still chanting his name and cheering him on.
Sugree. Maurer stepped into the ring in two steps and stood in the center of the ring with his hands folded to greet the audience.
Immediately afterwards, the hall sounded a battle song, and the two fighters in the ring began to dance on the ring at the same time, which made those who came to watch the Muay Thai match for the first time feel fresh, many people picked up their cameras and mobile phones, and took crazy pictures of the two fighters who were praying sincerely in the ring, and the click of the flash resounded throughout the audience for a while.
After the apprenticeship, with the referee's order, the first lightweight match officially began, and the Muay Thai competition officially began.
Chen Sheng, who was warming up in the background, was already sweating all over his body at this time, and his body was basically moving, and now he only needs to maintain this state and be ready to play at any time.
He was taking a towel to wipe the sweat from his body when he heard the bell ringing in his ears for the start of the game, and the movements of his hands immediately stopped, and his eyes began to shift to the TV screen.
I saw that the TV screen waved down the referee's hand between the two fighters, and the two lightweight fighters in the ring fought together in the center of the ring in an instant.
Both fighters are lightweights, so they seem to be particularly fast in the ring, and when the two make contact, they go on a lightning-fast course of offense and defense, which is simply dizzying.
Although this match has nothing to do with Chen Sheng, Chen Sheng is still watching with relish in the preparation area, and while watching, he is still discussing with Frank the strength of the two in the ring and the characteristics of each other's offense and defense.
The rest of the fighters in the preparation area were a little surprised to see Chen Sheng and Frank's relaxed state, coupled with the very unfamiliar faces of the two, almost all Muay Thai fighters thought that these two were just here to have a good time, and they were withdrawn after a round of play, so everyone didn't care about them, and they were still nervously preparing for their upcoming matches.
Even several heavyweight Muay Thai fighters sneered at Chen Sheng and Frank, completely ignoring them, thinking that cleaning up Chen Sheng was a piece of cake, and there was no need to worry about how strong he was.
A few of them are still thinking that if their first-round opponent is Chen Sheng, maybe they can pass the first round and advance to the second round without bloodshed.
Especially when they know that Chen Sheng is a boxer from China, many people's judgment of Chen Sheng is even more "will lose".
Chinese martial arts are very powerful, and many people have to admit it, but in the Muay Thai fighting arena, there are still few successful precedents for Chinese people who learn martial arts, so many fighters learned that Chen Sheng was from China, and their thoughts about fighting him were even stronger.
They all thought that this time they might pick up a soft persimmon and easily pass the competition and enter the second round, but who knows, when they realize that they have met a devil who has just come out of hell, they don't know how much they will regret their thoughts now.
The bout in the ring went fast, with the first bout coming to an end quickly with a slightly unexpected result that came out as the winner of Charun from Songkhla Province. Sancabricha.
Sugree from Naika Boxing Gym in Bangkok. Maurer, at the beginning of the fifth round, was caught by the opponent in a gap, a very fierce elbow, smashed straight on the side of Maurer's face, strong force, almost in the moment of smashing, has smashed Maurer to the ground, completely lost the ability to resist.
After the referee counted the seconds, Maurer still didn't stand up and was knocked out by his opponent.
The referee then announced that Sancabricha had won by knockout and successfully advanced to the next round, and Sancabricha in the ring held his arms high and kept celebrating in the ring, which was a good start to the Muay Thai tournament and a good start for the rest of the competition.
Sancabricha's victory immediately caused a lot of sighs in the gym, and many people bet on Maurer, which will naturally lose a lot.
Of course, there are still some people who bet on Sancabricha, and at this time it must be the one who makes money, and everyone has a smile on their faces.
The first bout was followed by a middleweight bout, the 64kg bout, which was between a fighter from Phuket Province and a fighter from Chiang Rai Province.
The appearance ceremony of these two fighters was very simple, and their popularity in Bangkok was very low, so the audience did not pay much attention to them, and the applause was sparse.
It's just that after the start of the game, everyone found that the strength of these two fighters is also very good, and the battle was quite fierce at the beginning, although they did not give their best in the first three rounds, but wonderful fighting scenes often appeared, so that all the audience at the scene saw their strength.
Fans who soon had an understanding of the strength of the two and were keen on gambling began to bet on the spot, even more enthusiastic than the first two fighters, after all, the situation of these two fighters was unfamiliar to everyone, but it increased the fun of gambling.
When the bout entered the fourth and fifth rounds of the real all-out fight, both fighters in the ring began to exert their strength, quickly showing their full strength in front of the audience.
Sure enough, there is not a single weak fighter who can participate in such a high-level event, and the strength of these two fighters is very strong, and the competition in the ring is becoming more and more intense.
The audience, who was not very optimistic about this match before, was quickly attracted by the fierce battle situation in the ring, and began to cooperate with the attack movements of the two fighters in the ring, constantly shouting and cheering.
The huge shout of "Hi-Hi-", combined with the quick defense of the two fighters in the ring, immediately made the atmosphere in the gym completely high.
Many fighters who are preparing for the fight in the background are also watching the live game on TV, and many of them have been excited by the fierce battle in the ring, and they have begun to punch or kick in the backstage preparation area, eagerly looking forward to the moment when they will appear.
The bout in the ring continued until the end of the fifth round, with the fighter from Chiang Rai province taking the win with points.
Two more bouts followed, one in the heavyweight division and one in the middleweight division.
The heavyweight division was a boxer from Bangkok against a fighter from Tao Gongfu.
The Bangkok Tiger Gym native was significantly superior to his opponent in the ring, and shortly after the fourth round of the bout, he used a high kick that landed him directly in the jaw and knocked him down in the ring to end the bout.
The middleweight match is a fighter from Chen Sheng's Popam Gym, against a French fighter from another famous gym in Bangkok, the game was very intense from the beginning, the two sides launched a fierce attack the moment the referee announced the start of the game, the boxer of the Popam Gym has a stronger overall strength, and the French boxer has a very high level of boxing, and the two sides are back and forth in the ring, and the fight is very intense.
And while the middleweight bout is underway, Chen Sheng is already preparing to play in the background.
Today he is the fifth group of fighters, and since there are fewer fighters competing in the heavyweight division, there are fewer fights in the relative heavyweight division.
The organizers of the tournament arranged the heavyweight matches in a more important period, Chen Sheng's match, just in the afternoon when the game gradually entered the climax stage, and in the afternoon when the game was about to end, there was a heavyweight match.
Heavyweight bouts are usually contested by foreign fighters, and the scene is intense at the beginning, and it is very popular with the audience, especially those who are watching Muay Thai for the first time.
In the more concentrated divisions such as middleweight, heavyweight, and lightweight, there will be a lot of fights and more choices for the audience.
By the end of the third round, the Thai fighter from Popam was already in the upper hand in the ring, and the Frenchman was elbowed to his opponent in the nose and began to bleed incessantly, and the scene became a lot more bloody.
And all the spectators in the audience were cheering for their own fighters with the same hatred at this time, and the huge and rhythmic shouts of "Hi-Hi-" accompanied by the Thai fighters' attacks continued to impact the entire gym like a tide.
There are also a few foreign tourists who are still cheering on the French.
At this time, Chen Sheng was fully equipped and ready to appear at any time.
Watching the fierce competition on TV, Chen Sheng himself became more and more excited, and he couldn't wait to stand in the ring, have a good fight with his opponent, and test the Muay Thai he had learned during this time.
The result of the bout in the ring was decided at the start of the fourth round, when the Frenchman was hit in the face with a right knee with a hoop in a tangled fight, and the contest ended with the Thai fighter's victory.
Seeing that the match on TV was over, Chen Sheng immediately tightened his cloak, and accompanied by Frank, with a high fighting spirit, he took a firm stride towards the entrance of the ring. (To be continued.) )