Thread: Benny the Jet vs Prayout Sittiboonlert

Originally Posted by george stando

This fight has been controversial and contested for some time:

YouTube - Benny The Yet loses to a muay thai fighter

Thanks for that George,good find,Ive alwys wanted to see that fight,I spoke to Prayout Sittiboonlert in 1995 or 6 in Bangkok and he told me Benny had a great spinning kick very strong and that he caught Benny with the elbow and won the fight,I wasnt sure if he meant the elbow won the fight for him or just that he won the fight and used the elbow.

By the way guess where I met Prayout Sittiboonlert and what he was doing as a job?.

Interesting info, firecobra I wasnt aware of the whole situation about benny until recently so I was trying to catch up. By the way, where did you meet Prayout and what was he doing? Did he still train or was a trainer?

Thanks for posting the fight.
Do you know how many times Benny fought a Thai? I read an old interview of him in Budo magazine (10 years ago or so) saying that he just couldn't handle low kicks, they were too much for him to take and so as a response he tried to spin kick every time he saw the low kicks coming. I don't know if that was the fight he was referring to.

Just got this from wikipedia:

Urquidez fought in three bouts which were eventually ruled no-contest (NC). The first, in Los Angeles in March 1977, was a nine-round NC (WKA) against Thai boxer Narongnoi Kiatbandit. The second and most controversial fight was against another Thai fighter, Prayuth (sometimes spelled Prayoud) Sittiboonlert in August 1978 in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese and Thai officials state this was a bout and a loss for Urquidez, who had difficulty with the Thai's aggressive knee and clinch strategy.

Originally Posted by george stando

Interesting info, firecobra I wasnt aware of the whole situation about benny until recently so I was trying to catch up. By the way, where did you meet Prayout and what was he doing? Did he still train or was a trainer?

Hi George,

I met him in Sukumvhit soi 96 or 98(cant remember) I had been training in Sor Thanikul and my friend introduced me to him,he was a Taxi Driver!.

Thats a great story. Sor Thanikul was a great camp. Its gone now right? I had an old friend who used to train there when he was young. They had alot of fighters as he showed me the videofootage.

Originally Posted by george stando

Thats a great story. Sor Thanikul was a great camp. Its gone now right? I had an old friend who used to train there when he was young. They had alot of fighters as he showed me the videofootage.

Yeah George its gone now.

I trained their twice ineither 95/6 or 96/7 man Im getting old!.

Just found out recently that Sor Supawan was in Sukumvhit Soi 101 and Kharuhat was there at that time.dam missed him!.

It looked like a tremendous camp, so much activity. The trainers were really good as well. My friend said he really liked it at sor thanikul.

Originally Posted by george stando

It looked like a tremendous camp, so much activity. The trainers were really good as well. My friend said he really liked it at sor thanikul.

My friend trained there for years George and he really liked it,I went 2 x and didnt have much other camp experience to judge against so cant say either way,I did enjoy the training of course and I was lucky to do some good sparring,they have of course had some great boxers over the years,shame it closed down.

As a footnote did you know that it is the Sor Tanikul camp that is shown on the movie Kickboxer with Jean Claude Van Damme?.

I have to check the movie out again, i didnt know they used that camp in the movie. I have some old video footage which i like that i watch from time to time. Big successful camp in its day.

Originally Posted by george stando

I have to check the movie out again, i didnt know they used that camp in the movie. I have some old video footage which i like that i watch from time to time. Big successful camp in its day.

The camp looked diferent on the movie from when I was there,I was told it had been changed or moved I cant remember which one.

Think you are right. Think it was moved.

Originally Posted by george stando

Think you are right. Think it was moved.

Thanks George.