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Buakaw Por.Puramuk[Working Routine]
Style: Muay Thai
Record: 2004 k-1 Max Champion
Description:
Written beore he won the k-1 MAX in 2004.
Quote:
Bangkok, Thailand: Thailand’s latest contestant in the K-1 Max finals is their strongest yet. In a Spartan isolated training camp, Buakao Por Pramuk is pushing his body to the limits, to prepare to take on the world’s best middleweight fighters. With a lot of people pouring scorn on his chances due to his normal fighting weight being a lot lower, Buakao is quietly confident and determined to prove the doubters wrong. Buakao is only 22 years old and in his fighting prime. He has also never even been put down by a punch, let alone knocked out.
Since he started his fighting career at the very young age of 8, he has already fought over 300 times, starting in his home province of Surin, in the northeast of Thailand and then in Bangkok after he moved to Por Pramuk gym at the age of 15.
He has collected several belts to his name since fighting in Bangkok. First he won the Omnoi Stadium featherweight title, after that he took the featherweight champion of Thailand title. Buakao won another Omnoi Stadium title belt, this time at lightweight, which he still holds today. In December 2002, Buakao won the Toyota Marathon 140 pound tournament at Lumpini Stadium, beating the highly regarded Kobayashi of Japan in the final. This was a tournament similar to the K-1 set up with 3 round fights and no elbows allowed until the final.
With some big wins against some big names, including KO wins over Thongchai PorBurapha and Nonthachai Kiatwanlop, Buakao has struggled to find a fighter capable of giving him a real challenge in Thailand at the moment.
Por Pramuk Gym is set in an idyllic location on the bank of the Bangpakong River, in Chacherngsao province approximately 100 kilometers east of Bangkok. It’s reached after a 5 kilometer drive from the nearest main road, through coconut and mango groves. It’s the perfect location to develop top class fighters; fresh air all around and far away from distractions and temptations.
Buakao follows a very arduous training regime that sees him get up at 6:00 AM for a 12 kilometer run which is then followed by pad and bag work and conditioning exercises.
The rest of the morning and early afternoon is time for more sleep to let the body recover for the afternoon session. The afternoon training starts with another long run of 8 kilometers. As soon as the boxers are back from the run, they grab the nearest punch bag and throw a set of 200 knees on the bag. This is followed by a pad session with their trainer. Buakao does one round on the pads, but it is 20 minutes long with just 2 very short breaks to get a drink of water.
He holds a very fast pace throughout the 20 minutes, forcing the pad man back, with his lightning fast heavy round kicks. After the pad session its time for him to hit the bags again, this time its 2 rounds of 10 minutes duration with sets of push ups between the rounds and at the end. Buakao also has an international boxing coach there, to take him on the hand pads, and work on his boxing defense. He approaches everything he does in the gym, with a single minded dedication and sets a relentless pace throughout. Following on from the boxing session its back into the ring for a 45 minute session of clinch and knee work. With his stable mates Chokdee Por Pramuk and Namsaknoi Yuthgarngamthon, both boxers taking it in turns to work with Buakao.
After the clinch work there is still time for another set of 200 knees on the bag, followed by 100 kicks with each leg. Then it’s just the conditioning work to do including 100 pull ups and 300 sit ups.
Buakao’s approach to the K-1 max finals has been one of determined, relentless hard work. He is in incredible shape and raring to go. There is an air of confidence around the Por Pramuk camp, Buakao in a reserved modest way and his gym owner in a more outgoing way, who feels there is no one in the tournament that they fear. His boss didn’t rate the dangers of the punching power of Kraus and Zambedis and the only fighter he thought could pose any real problems was John Wayne Parr due to his size, but still feels Buakao has more than enough in his arsenal to deal with the challenge.
It will soon be seen if Buakao has the skills and the ability to overcome his only short coming in the tournament, his smaller size to the rest of the contestants. But one thing for sure is that whoever he meets in the ring will be in for a hell of a fight.
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