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Originally Posted by Producer1
Spoonking, hogwash? If you say so. You're the great authority on all things Khmer boxing, what would I know about it? It may be that if they won regularly they'd be getting into better promotions than Ancient Battle. It could be that the reason they aren't winning regularly overseas is exactly the reason I gave about local ring ettiquette.
And the loss to Keough was for Oriental Rules, not MT.
As for fighting regularly overseas. Name them. Let's see, Kosal and Auth travel regularly, Chantha used to. Seiha and Sophan have been once or twice. Bird Kamm has been to France and Belgium, as has Somkahn and Sophea. Oh, and the big man was tempted south a couple of times last year when he should have just admitted he was retired and stayed out of the ring. So the reality is Kosal, Auth and Eh have travelled "regularly" to fight o/s in the last two years. And I haven't been talking about any of them.
But it certainly isn't hogwash when I say local promoters don't have the money. On that score I think it's possible I might know better than you do.
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I agree about local Khmer promoters, in fact i think this is the cause of the relative skill disparity atm. However, I think its nonsense, that you say that the only reason Khmers are losing o/s is ring etiquette. Is it ring etiquette to be decisively outpointed? is ring etiquette to get knocked out? I don't think so, I see what you mean about not going for a KO, but that does not entail, letting a fighter outpoint/stop you.
P.S Seiha and Sophan have fought more than 'once or twice' o/s. Also though the loss to Keogh was oriental rules, the KO loss to Finlayson was MT rules.
