About
The Champions Club is a prestige international Superfights event where fans can experience worldclass professional K-1 Rules & WMC Muaythai Superfights & International Title bouts.
The Champions Club provides a unique platform for "Champion" stand-up fight combatants from any federation to compete internationally under K-1 Rules against the best and to provide fight fans with the highest quality matchmaking possible. Launched in 2007 in Bamberg Germany, The Champions Club premiere was a huge success, the main event crowning Canadian Muaythai fighter Clifton Brown as the new 2007 WMC Muaythai World Super Lightheavyweight Champion.
Check www.the-championsclub.com regularly for event updates & news.
Muaythai, The Art of the Eight Limbs.
Also known as Thai Boxing or The Art of the Eight Limbs is the Thai name for a form of hard martial art practiced in several Southeast Asian countries including Thailand. It is known as Pradal Serey in Cambodia, Tomoi in Malaysia, Muay Lao in Laos and as a similar style called Lethwei in Burma. With over 400.000 registered professional and active boxers in Thailand, the different styles of kickboxing in Southeast Asia are analogous to the different types of Kung Fu in China or Silat in the Malay peninsula. The Thai military uses a modified form of Muaythai called Lerdrit. Muay Thai has a long history in Thailand and is the country's national sport.
Traditional Muay Thai practiced today varies slightly from the ancient art Muay Boran and uses kicks and punches in a ring with gloves similar to those used in Western boxing. In ringsport Muaythai the hands, shins, elbows, knees and the stand-up clinch are all used extensively. A master practitioner of Muaythai thus has the ability to execute strikes using eight "points of contact," as opposed to "two points" (fists) in Western boxing and "four points" (fists, feet) used in the primarily sport-oriented forms of martial arts.
Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muay_thai for more.
