JONG SANAN FAIRTEX vs CECIL HAGINS - Pro Kickboxing - video Dailymotion

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Rds. 1 & 3 of this ISKA Light Middleweight Title Bout

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00:00The classic Muay Thai style, very slow the first round, picking it up, and then probably peaking in rounds three and four.

00:08Higgins may know that drill, he might not.

00:11He fights primarily here in the U.S. out of Albuquerque.

00:15Their style is even, full bore from bell to bell.

00:19John Sunong Fairtex now fighting out of San Francisco, enjoying the local support.

00:35Large contingent of his fans and family here in the audience.

00:41No damage from that roundhouse.

00:43Crowd very much behind him.

00:45They'll cheer for anything he throws that comes close.

00:49Flicking that huge left foot up to the head of Higgins.

00:58Higgins blocked it, but he knows it is a weapon.

01:05Very big thighs on John Sunong for someone who only weighs 157 pounds.

01:11You see that a lot with the Thailand fighters as well.

01:14They developed those thighs to be able to wing those roundhouses.

01:27Tremendous speed is the one we just saw also for power in their knee strikes.

01:30In addition, it also protects them from being hurt on a kick from their opponent.

01:37That's right.

01:38They take a lot of abuse on the outside of the thigh.

01:41They build up a big muscle pad there.

01:43They're able to take that abuse for the whole five rounds.

01:45Higgins stalking John Sunong now.

01:53Looks like he wants to get something going.

01:56John Sunong keeps breaking his rhythm.

01:58And you see the pattern being set by Fairtex.

02:03Snapping away at that left thigh of Higgins.

02:07Three strong kicks just in the last 30 seconds.

02:14Snapped that kick out of the way, did Fairtex.

02:19Ten seconds left in the round.

02:22Fairtex looking like he just wants to keep him away with front kicks.

02:25A good start to our main event scheduled for five rounds.

02:31Come on back to San Jose, California.

02:33We've got a good one.

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03:05Yeah.

03:05Did he knee you when you were done?

03:07Yeah.

03:08It seems like you're right.

03:12Yeah, this was called a slip by the referee.

03:14But actually, you know, he went down as a result of a technique, which was a late kick.

03:19So that's a questionable call.

03:21Now, you did see the knee slip in there, but it was held back.

03:24In fact, the referee maybe just didn't see that he went down from the force of the blow.

03:29And this is the punishment you were talking about before, Mike, the low kicks.

03:32You could see Higgins actually limping out there.

03:36And that's a sure sign they're having an effect.

03:39And this is more of the same from Jong-Soon Han.

03:42Right.

03:42Look at that.

03:42That turned him around.

03:43That was not...

03:44Look, he's complaining of a groin kick.

03:46That did not look like a groin kick to me.

03:50Maybe just buying some time with a referee or trying to...

03:53Well, he's going for the Oscar nomination, but that's all right.

03:55That's part of the fight game.

04:00Just battering kicks by Jong-Soon Han.

04:02Right.

04:03He basically...

04:04He landed those thigh kicks, and then he went to the other side.

04:08He's working on both sides of the legs.

04:10Very, very skilled, low-kick fighter.

04:13Now, those kind of kicks are not only going to cause a lot of pain to Cecil Higgins,

04:19but they're going to take away his ability to plant on those legs and execute his own techniques.

04:23Absolutely.

04:24It's very hard to throw a punch when somebody's kicking your legs out from under you.

04:29Bill Packer in the corner with Cecil Higgins.

04:31I'm trying to give him some advice to get something going here in round three.

04:35Yeah, he's definitely down now.

04:37The first round was even unofficially on my scorecard.

04:39The second round, definitely a big round from Fairtex.

04:48Jong-Soon Han, as most Muay Thai fighters do,

04:51they take the name of their gym as their adopted last names.

04:54In this case, the Fairtex gym, well-known world over,

04:58producing some of the best Muay Thai kickboxers in the sport.

05:06Well, I guess that would be his fighting name then, wouldn't it?

05:08Fairtex, I guess, is his fighting name.

05:10Okay, now that may look like an accidental fall,

05:21but in fact planned by Jong-Soon Han.

05:23Yeah, I don't think that's legalism.

05:24I'd have to grab the foot like that, hold it, and then drive him back.

05:27I believe he treaded the line there of the rules.

05:30Kit Hagen to have to get up off the canvas.

05:32Continuing to work, having that thigh,

05:34and putting some knee strikes in there now.

05:44No knockdown.

05:50Tremendous leg kick, taking out both legs.

05:54He got a standing eight count for that,

05:57so that would be a good clean knockdown.

06:01Anytime there's a blow to the legs,

06:03that causes the fighter to go down,

06:04the referee makes a subjective decision

06:06how hurt the fighter is,

06:08whether a standing eight count or a knockdown should be called.

06:18Knee strike followed by a leg kick.

06:21Hagen's trying to get out of dodge on that one,

06:23was able to escape most of the leg kick.

06:26Yeah, but he's really, really suffering now.

06:30That's a knockdown.

06:31Each kick has a multiple effect.

06:34It just keeps adding up and adding up.

06:36I mean, and these kicks hurt even worse tomorrow than they do now,

06:40but his ability to kick is going to be affected

06:42as well as his ability to punch.

06:44Oh, and again, and that's going to be it.

06:51Referee is not going to allow Cecil Higgins to continue

06:54to have his legs battered mercilessly

06:57as he has in round three by Johnson on Fairtex.

07:01Well, I'm very surprised that Higgins was not able to block

07:04and check some of those low kicks

07:06because once it became obvious that was the game plan,

07:10was to work his lower body, he should have been blocking.

07:11He should have been blocking and checking.

07:23I mean, a lot of people don't value the leg kick,

07:25but you'll see here the force that can be generated

07:29to a kick to the upper thigh

07:31can literally knock a man off his feet.

07:33And that's by a man who only weighs 125 pounds.

07:38Well, he goes to the head and then back downstairs.

07:42There it is.

07:43Oh, those are hurting me.

07:45I don't know.

07:45Completely spins Cecil Higgins around

07:47and takes him down to the canvas,

07:48ending the bout in favor of Johnson on Fairtex.

07:53Let's now go up to our ring announcer, Jerry Hoffman.

07:56Ladies and gentlemen,

08:00at the 2-11 mark of round number three,

08:04referee John Shirley elects to stop the fight

08:07as Cecil Higgins was sustaining too much punishment.

08:11So by virtue of a technical knockout,

08:16the winner and new ISKA light middleweight champion,

08:23Nwong Sohan Fairtex.

08:30An impressive display of Muay Thai

08:34from one of the greatest of its practitioners.

08:36Fairtex bringing over his talents from Thailand

08:41and now receiving the ISKA belt

08:44from ISKA commissioner Robert Mason.

08:51John Sinan just too much for Cecil Higgins.

08:54Higgins just was not prepared

08:56with his style of kickboxing of Muay Thai here in America

09:00to take on somebody at John Sinan's level.

09:03Any time you bring this kind of talent over

09:07to the United States,

09:08it is going to improve the Muay Thai kickboxing

09:10here in the States.

09:12John Sinan Fairtex with a win tonight.

09:14Also congratulations to Chinoo Lee

09:17and Adam Rogers,

09:18who won their bouts as well tonight.

09:20We want to thank Don the Dragon Wilson

09:22for sitting in on our broadcast.

09:25I'm Lon McCarran.

09:26For Mike Sawyer, thanks for joining us.

09:28We'll see you again on ISKA kickboxing.

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