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#4. ONE Championship Muay Thai slickster Lerdsila Chumpairtour vs. Muay Thai GOAT Samart Payakaroon
This one is for hardcore Muay Thai fans. ONE Championship flyweight Muay Thai standout Lerdsila Chumpairtour is often considered the 'Mayweather of Muay Thai'. His inhuman reflexes and defensive tactics are nothing like we've ever seen in Muay Thai. It's like watching a movie. Check out any highlight reel video of Chumpairtour on YouTube and prepare to be amazed by his legendary slick movement.
Similarly, if Chumpairtour is the 'Mayweather of Muay Thai', then Samart Payakaroon is the Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson of the sport. Fighters, past and present, cite Samart as the greatest Muay Thai fighter of all time. His in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals was as close to perfection as anyone could get.
His management of distance, complemented by his perfect timing and sniper-like precision, made Samart so smooth to watch. Watching Samart dismantle his opponents was almost like watching a ballerina dazzle the crowd with technique and grace.
Watch this analysis video by Lawrence Kenshin on YouTube about the legend of the former Muay Thai and boxing world champion:
Watching these two technically proficient and smooth legends outdo each other in the ring is every ONE Championship Muay Thai lover's dream. It wouldn't just be highly entertaining, it would be something worth studying, as well.
#3. ONE Championship heavyweight champion Arjan Bhullar vs. MMA legend Mark Kerr
The Richter scale would not be able to calculate the magnitude of the earthquake a battle between these wrestling behemoths would produce. A fight between ONE Championship heavyweight king Arjan Singh Bhullar and MMA legend Mark 'The Smashing Machine' Kerr would be larger than life. It's the closest we can get to a real-life battle of the titans.
Though largely known now as the subject of the heartbreaking HBO documentary 'The Smashing Machine', Mark Kerr was a force of nature in his heyday. Legend has it that former UFC champion Mark Coleman started writing the handbook for ground-and-pound. If that's true, then Kerr continued and finished it. The former NCAA wrestling champion and former ADCC submission wrestling champion is a different world of pain on the ground. His absolutely dominant top game and concussive ground-and-pound made Kerr the No.1 pound-for-pound fighter of his time.
Watch this highlight video on YouTube by user Dhamil on the greatness of 'The Smashing Machine':
ONE Championship king Arjan Bhullar, on his end, is a former Olympic wrestler and former multi-time world wrestling champion as well. The ONE Championship heavyweight king's mix of fast-paced freestyle and awkward folkstyle wrestling might bewilder Kerr. Bhullar, being a modern-day MMA fighter, also has a more holistic MMA game with better stand-up than the specialist Kerr. Once Kerr gets a hold of the ONE Championship title holder and puts him on his back, however, it becomes a wildly different story. It doesn't matter where you're from or what era you're fighting in, if a prime Mark Kerr is on top of you, you're in for a long night.
