trevor smandich

[Prodigy-Child]

i personally believe that trevor "tnt" smandich is one of the best thai boxers out there. i was watching one of his fights on tsn. it was a whole canada against the world thing and he fought a dutch guy and the dutch guy's corner threw in the towel because smandich was just killing him. i personally think that the fighters outta calagary, canada are the best. there was a big fight card about 5 months ago between canada and the states and the canadians just cleaned them out. no offence to all you americans out there. alot of the calagary fighters have also cleaned out many thai's as well. mike miles has really shaped his fighters into the top contenders and for now they are untouchable!

[Danny boy]

They haven't had much luck against the Aussies,Nick Ring was beat by Scott Bannan and Nick was one of Mikes top boys.and Canada's Melvern Murry way done by a couple of Aussies aswell(I think Alex Tui and Steven Vick,I 'm not sure which)

 

The Thai's who fight outside of Thailand are different from the ones who are stadium champions,a different class.It's good to see that guys like Mike Miles promoting the real thing.There is one Canadian who I think has heaps of go,Mike McDonald but I think he should compete at cruiserweight not heavyweight ,alot of those guys on the K-1 circuit are bigmothers and he does look small compared to them.By far the best Kickfighter to come out of Canada would have to be Peter "Sugarfoot"Cunningham,that guy was magic.

 

Cheers.

[Zaknafein]

Nicks fight against Scott Bannon was one of his first fights, he was really inexperienced at the time. Since then, he has come a long way.

 

Also, Jason Fenton is also an awesome fighter from Calgary.

 

 

 

btw, im being taught in Mike Miles' National Kickboxing, so I know these people, and I finding it to be a great experience.

[Iron Arahat]

Mike Miles is training some good guys, but you have to remeber that Miles is also promoting the fights. Miles is also the WKA representative for Canada. He has alot invested in the fights that take place in Calgary.

 

There are alot of sanctioning bodies, as well as title belts flying around out there.

 

Trevor Smandych also lost his only fight in the IMATF Championships to Ridouan. This we seldom hear about. It's just good promotion.

 

Most guys in North America still are not the calibre of the Thai athletes.

 

Miles guys are human...nobody is untouchable.

[iamrushman]

welcome to this forum IRON ARAHAT.....

 

 

[shelbelle]

Hello. I am a female athlete who started her competitive training and fighting on the West Coast of

 

Canada and have since moved into Alberta. My love is the ring arts and I am studying and learning as

 

much as I can about them in Canada. I wanted to contribute some information. Nick Ring did lose to Scott

 

Bannan. Nick had around a dozen fights before this encounter (the majority of his bouts had been under

 

low kick rules) and his regular fighting weight at this time was 175 lbs. He had to lose 10 pounds to meet

 

Mr. Bannan. Contrary to what has been said, Nick was not one of Kru Mike Miles top boys at the time of

 

the bout, though he certainly did develop into one after the encounter. The bout with Mr. Bannan saw

 

Nick’s fight skills improve substantially afterwards. Mr. Bannan has made special mention of (complete

 

with high praise) for his bout with Nick in many interviews. I know Kru Mike has mentioned that he is

 

thankful to Mr. Bannan for the learning experience Nick received in their bout. Canadian athletes have

 

fought and defeated Australian athletes. Dalton, Murphy, Olsen ... there are more, but what is the point?

 

Athletes win and athletes lose no matter what country they hail from (including Thailand). :lol:

[shelbelle]

Though Kru Mike represents the WKA in North America, the majority of his bouts are sanctioned by

 

many other sanctioning bodies. This includes the WMC, WKA, IKF, IKKC, ... and we have fought for the

 

IAMTF, IFMA, ISKA, WKO... the list goes on. They are all legitimate sanctioning bodies. It might be

 

viewed as good promotion, but in reality, Kru Mike just keeps his athletes (including me) active. Nothing

 

more and nothing less. Promoters should sanction under some legitmate organization, should they not?

 

I only mention this for information but consider several other prominent Canadian promoters, one sanctions events and hands out titles, but

 

under no sanctioning body. Several others sanction events under their own ‘Canadian’ organization and

 

hand out Continental, Intercontinental and World Titles. A legitimate sanctioned title and event or a made

 

up title and event, as a competitor, I know where my choice would be.

[shelbelle]

It has been mentioned that Trevor Smandych has “lost his only fight in the IMATF Championships. This you seldom hear about.” I assume it to mean the IAMTF, not the IMATF. Trevor has fought around a dozen times in Thailand with 8 of them being in IAMTF events (not once like stated). He has fought in 3 of their Championships and won a Bronze Medal in one of them. He received several tournament awards from the IAMTF including a trophy for the ‘Best Round Kick (dtae) Knockout’. Unlike many competitors

 

in the IAMTF event, Trevor was a true amateur when he competed in these events. Many respected Thai, European, Oriental, Australian, and American athletes (many professional world champions) have lost in

 

the IAMTF tournament situation. These athletes seem to get a lot of respect and press in the professional fight world and their careers have not been hindered by their IAMTF losses. In regards to losses of any of his athletes, Kru Mike has been anything but secretive. Check out Kru Mike’s website in his ‘past events’ pages and you can see that wins and losses by his athletes are all reported. All you have to do is read. It is available to all. If you read, Trevor has lost to

 

some very good international athletes but he has also beaten some very respected Moroccan, Dutch, German, Thai, etc. athletes as well.

[shelbelle]

Whew! Sorry for being so long winded. Does any promoter run an event to lose money? A promoter wants to have ‘good promotion’ of their event. Promotion sells tickets, tickets mean money and money means being able to bring in competition from around the world, and having the luxury of being able to continue to promote events. Events mean

 

work for the athletes and I sure appreciate it. Kru Mike does just that and everyone from his novice athletes to his heavily experienced athletes get international competition and experience consistently from around the world. We get a lot of work. He has been promoting for several decades and has learned the in’s and out’s. Most promoters want to be successful.

[shelbelle]

This is it for today! I know, I know, a typical women who can babble on... but I can also punch too! Many athletes from around the world and across Canada fight in Calgary (with some fighting for titles). Athletes competing for titles are not all from Kru Mike’s gym. I know how many promotions Kru Mike

 

does a year and I know how hard he works to find opponents for just me, so I can tell you, he would welcome submissions from interested athletes. I know he has been trying to contact several Kickboxing, Muay Thai, and San Shou practitioners in Alberta for the last week to compete on one of his upcoming

 

events. For example (and I assure all this is not meant as an insult), I am sure that Kru Mike would welcome a submission from IRON ARAFAT to compete. In prior posts you seem to understand some Muay Thai and it is known (by reading other discussion boards) that you have fought in San Shou competition (as recent as June in Vancouver). If ‘title belts are flying around out in Calgary’ (which can

 

be interpreted as a negative statement. I might be stretching it to mean questioning the credibility of the title holders, if I am doing this, I am very sorry), why not talk to Kru Mike and challenge one of his title holders.

 

Knowing Kru Mike, I am pretty confident he would oblige. He has a fight event on the 29th of September in Calgary, and the Canadian Golden Gloves are in October. Kru Mike has never said his athletes are ‘untouchable’, we all compete to get better and improve our skills. Titles are nice, but ring work is better

 

(in my eyes and I know Kru Mike agrees on this).

 

Hugs, kisses and a lot of clinch work,

 

Shelbelle