Buakaw Banchamek holding the Pads for Rika TinyDoll Ishige at Banchamek Gym
“ริกะ อิชิเกะ” นักสู้ Mixed martial arts (MMA) สาวลูกครึ่งไทย – ญี่ปุ่น วัย 27 ปี เป็นที่จับตามองของวงการต่อสู้ทั่วโลก เจ้าของฉายา Tinydoll หรือ Smiling Assassin เกิดและโตที่ประเทศไทย โดยเธอเริ่มหันมาสนใจศิลปะการต่อสู้มาตั้งแต่ในช่วงมัธยมต้น เริ่มจากไอคิโด้ และคาราเต้ ล่าสุดเธอคือหญิงไทยคนแรก บนสังเวียน “One Championship”
ที่ใหญ่ที่สุด 1 ใน 3 ของโลก แต่งานนี้ ไม่ธรรมดา เมื่อหนุ่ม “เปอร์-สุวิกรม อัมระนันทน์” เอาจริง ขอลองของดี เป็นคู่ต่อสู้ ของ “ริกะ อิชิเกะ” กลางรายการเปอร์สเปกทิฟ จะรอดหรือจะร่วง?
สิ่งที่น่าแปลกใจ ทำไมผู้หญิงอย่าง “ริกะ อิชิเกะ” ถึงหันมาสนใจและกลายเป็นนักสู้ MMA ซึ่งเป็นกีฬาที่ผู้หญิงส่วนใหญ่ไม่ค่อยให้ความสนใจ
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport that allows both striking and grappling, both standing and on the ground, using techniques from other combat sports and martial arts. The first documented use of the term mixed martial arts was in a review of UFC 1 by television critic Howard Rosenberg in 1993. The term gained popularity when newfullcontact.com, then one of the largest websites covering the sport, hosted and republished the article. The question of who actually coined the term is subject to debate.
During the early 20th century, various mixed-style contests took place throughout Japan, Taiwan and in the countries of the Four Asian Tigers. In 1980 CV Productions, Inc. created the first regulated MMA league in the United States, named Tough Guy Contest, later renamed Battle of the Superfighters. The company sanctioned ten tournaments in Pennsylvania. However, in 1983 the Pennsylvania State Senate passed a bill prohibiting the sport.
In 1993 the Gracie family brought vale tudo, developed in Brazil from the 1920s, to the United States by founding the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) MMA promotion company.
Originally promoted as a competition to find the most effective martial arts for real unarmed combat, competitors from different fighting styles were pitted against one another in contests with relatively few rules. Later, individual fighters employed multiple martial arts into their style. MMA promoters were pressured to adopt additional rules to increase competitors' safety, to comply with sport regulations and to broaden mainstream acceptance of the sport. Following these changes, the sport has seen increased popularity with a pay-per-view business that rivals boxing and professional wrestling.
History
The Pancrastinae: A Greek statue of the pancratium, an event showcased at the Roman Colosseum and used by Alexander the Great in battle. Even as late as the Early Middle Ages, statues were put up in Rome and other cities to honour remarkable pankratiasts of Rome.
A scene of Ancient Greek pankratiasts fighting. Originally found on a Panathenaic amphora, Lamberg Collection.
Over 6,000 years ago the earliest form of a mixed martial art was invented in ancient China by Han Chinese military generals and soldiers called Shuai jiao. It is an ancient style of Wrestling and Kung-Fu that incorporated grappling techniques that are the earliest ancient precursors of modern jujitsu and judo combined with kicking, punching, throwing, joint locks, finger locks, leg sweeps, leg locks and close range trapping techniques used by elite ancient Han Chinese military forces to kill enemy soldiers on the battlefield.
In Ancient Greece there was a sport called pankration, which featured a combination of grappling and striking skills similar to those found in modern MMA. Pankration was formed by a combination of the already established wrestling and boxing traditions and, in Olympic terms, first featured in the 33rd Olympiad, 648 B.C. All strikes and holds were allowed with the exception of biting and gouging, which were banned. Fighters, also known as pankratiasts, fought until a fighter submitted; there were no rounds.] According to E. Norman Gardiner, 'No branch of athletics was more popular than the pankration.' From its origins in Ancient Greece, pankration was later passed on to the Romans.
The mid-19th century saw the prominence of the new sport savate in the combat sports circle. At that time, French fighters wanted to test out the sport against the traditional combat styles of its time. In 1852, a contest was held in France between French savateurs and English bare-knuckle boxers in which French fighter Rambaud alias la Resistance fought English fighter Dickinson and won using his kicks. However, the English team still won the four other match-ups during the contest. Since then other similar contest also occurred by the late 19th to mid-20th century between French Savateurs and other combat styles. Examples include a 1905 fight between a French savateur George Dubois and a judo practitioner Re-nierand which resulted in the latter winning by submission, as well as the highly publicized 1957 fight between French savateur and professional boxer Jacques Cayron and a young Japanese karateka named Mochizuki Hiroo which ended when Cayron knocked Hiroo out with a hook.
No-holds-barred fighting reportedly took place in the late 1880s when wrestlers representing style of Catch wrestling and many others met in tournaments and music-hall challenge matches throughout Europe. In the USA, the first major encounter between a boxer and a wrestler in modern times took place in 1887 when John L. Sullivan, then heavyweight world boxing champion, entered the ring with his trainer, wrestling champion William Muldoon, and was slammed to the mat in two minutes. The next publicized encounter occurred in the late 1890s when future heavyweight boxing champion Bob Fitzsimmons took on European wrestling champion Ernest Roeber. In September 1901, Frank "Paddy" Slavin, who had been a contender for Sullivan's boxing title, knocked out future world wrestling champion Frank Gotch in Dawson City, Canada. The judo-practitioner Ren-nierand who gained fame after defeating George Dubois, would fight again in another similar contest against Ukrainian Catch wrestler Ivan Poddubny and lost.
Another early example of mixed martial arts was Bartitsu, which Edward William Barton-Wright founded in London in 1899. Combining catch wrestling, judo, boxing, savate, jujutsu and canne de combat (French stick fighting), Bartitsu was the first martial art known to have combined Asian and European fighting styles, and which saw MMA-style contests throughout England, pitting European Catch wrestlers and Japanese Judoka champions against representatives of various European wrestling styles.
The history of modern MMA competition can be traced to mixed style contests throughout Europe, Japan, and the Pacific Rim during the early 1900s; In Japan these contests were known as merikan, from the Japanese slang for "American [fighting]". Merikan contests were fought under a variety of rules, including points decision, best of three throws or knockdowns, and victory via knockout or submission.
As the popularity of professional wrestling, which were contested under various Catch wrestling rules at the time, waned after World War I when the sport split into two genres: "shoot", in which the fighters actually competed, and "show", which evolved into modern professional wrestling.
In 1936, heavyweight boxing contender Kingfish Levinsky and veteran Catch wrestler Ray Steele competed in a mixed match, which Steele won in 35 seconds.
In 1963, a catch wrestler and judoka "Judo" Gene Lebell fought professional boxer Milo Savage in a no-holds-barred match. Lebell won by Harai Goshi to rear naked choke, leaving Savage unconscious. This was the first televised bout of mixed-style fighting in North America. The hometown crowd was so enraged that they began to boo and throw chairs at Lebell.
During the late 1960s to early 1970s, the concept of combining the elements of multiple martial arts was popularized in the west by Bruce Lee via his system of Jeet Kune Do. Lee believed that "the best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt to any style, to be formless, to adopt an individual's own style and not following the system of styles." In 2004, UFC President Dana White would call Lee the "father of mixed martial arts" stating: "If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the perfect style was no style. You take a little something from everything. You take the good things from every different discipline, use what works, and you throw the rest away". A contemporary of Bruce Lee, Wing Chun practitioner Wong Shun Leung, gained prominence fighting in over 60-100 illegal beimo fights against other Chinese martial artist of various styles. In his career, Wong also fought and won against Western fighters and other combat styles such as his match against a Russian boxer named Giko,[ his televised fight against a fencer, and his well-documented fight against Taiwanese Kung-Fu master Wu Ming Jeet. Like Bruce Lee, Wong also combined boxing and kickboxing into his kung fu.
There were "Karate vs. Muay Thai fights" February 12, 1963. The three karate fighters from Oyama dojo (kyokushin later) went to the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Thailand, and fought against three Muay Thai fighters. The three kyokushin karate fighters' names are Tadashi Nakamura, Kenji Kurosaki and Akio Fujihira (also known as Noboru Osawa). The Muay Thai team were composed of only one authentic Thai fighter. Japan won by 2–1: Tadashi Nakamura and Akio Fujihira both KOed opponents by punch while Kenji Kurosaki, who fought the Thai, was KOed by elbow. This should be noted that the only Japanese loser Kenji Kurosaki was then a kyokushin instructor rather than a contender and temporarily designated as a substitute for the absent chosen fighter. On June of the same year, karateka and future kickboxer Tadashi Sawamura faced against top Thai fighter Samarn Sor Adisorn, in which Sawamura was knocked down 16 times and defeated. Sawamura would use what he learned in that fight to incorporate in the evolving kickboxing tournaments.
Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki took place in Japan in 1976. The classic match-up between professional boxer vs professional wrestler turned sour as both fighters refused to engage in the other's style, and after a 15-round stalemate, it was declared a draw. However Ali had sustained a substantial amount of damage to his legs, as Inoki slide-kicked him continuously for the duration of the bout, causing him to be hospitalized for the next three days.
In 1988 Rick Roufus challenged Changpuek Kiatsongrit to a non-title Muay Thai vs. kickboxing super fight. Rick Roufus was at the time an undefeated Kickboxer and held both the KICK Super Middleweight World title and the PKC Middleweight U.S title. Changpuek Kiatsongrit was finding it increasingly difficult to get fights in Thailand as his weight (70 kg) was not typical for Thailand, where competitive bouts at tend to be at the lower weights. Roufus knocked Changpuek down twice with punches in the first round, breaking Changpuek's jaw, but lost by technical knockout in the fourth round due to the culmination of low kicks to the legs that he was unprepared for. This match was the first popular fight which showcased the power of such low kicks to a predominantly Western audience.
Sombat Banchamek (Thai: สมบัติ บัญชาเมฆ, born May 8, 1982) AKA Buakaw Banchamek (Thai: บัวขาว บัญชาเมฆ, Buakaw meaning "white lotus") is a Thai welterweight Muay Thai kickboxer, who formerly fought out of Por. Pramuk Gym, in Bangkok, Thailand, under the ring name Buakaw Por. Pramuk (Thai: บัวขาว ป.ประมุข). He is the former two-time Omnoi Stadium champion, Lumpini Stadium Toyota Marathon champion, Thailand Featherweight champion and two time K-1 World MAX champion. As of 1 August 2017, he is ranked the #5 lightweight in the world by CombatPress.com.
Buakaw Banchamek
About The Artist
Watana Kreethong : วธน กรีทอง
In 1992, I got a bachelor’s degree from the faculty of painting, sculpting and graphic arts, Silpakorn University. Two years before that I got a scholarship for an exchange program in Japan. It was The Friendship Program for the 21st Century fromJICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency).
I used to think that every artist should make at least one masterpiece which is outstanding enough to create a new trend of art. Thinking too hard, I was reluctant to make it. I decided to flee to work in a different career using labor and abilities to determine the rates of payment since I was afraid of poverty.
Then I decided to start my life anew. Like boxing, I dizzily walked out from the corner and raised my guard like a boxer. I realized I didn’t have to stay in the boxing ring any longer and I can work without the salary. I could draw anything I want with simple techniques continuously. As the nature is always changing,I don’t have to think about it. I just record my stories through paintings and then the paintings will reveal my stories to others.
JY: Let’s talk about your exhibitions during the past recent years.
WK: From 2014 onwards, I had some international watercolor art exhibitions in Thailand and abroad.
2014
- WWET World Watermedia Exposition Thailand
- Thailand watercolor to globalThailand
2015 - 2016
- VIZart International Watercolor Biennale 2015, Albania 2016
- Pensando en grande, Large Size, International Watercolor Exhibition 2016, Mexico
- 1st Fabriano IN Acquarello Convention, Italy
- The International Watercolor Society International Watercolor Triennial – Varna 2016, Bulgaria
- The International Watercolor Society,The 1st IWS International Watercolor Biennale In Vancouver 2016, Canada
- Hua Hin BluPort International Watercolor Art Biennale 2016,Thailand
- The International Watercolor Society, Love United. The 1st International Watercolor Biennale Hongkong
- The International Watercolor Festival cum Plein Air workshop 3-10 November 2016, Nepal
- Master of Watercolor –Elite 2015-2016 Tirana, Albania
2017
- The 2nd Tirana International Watercolor Biennale. April 2017,Tirana, Albania
- 2nd Fabriano IN Acquarello Convention, Italy
ในปีพ.ศ. 2535 ผมได้รับวุฒิปริญญาตรีจากคณะจิตรกรรม ประติมากรรม และภาพพิมพ์ สองปีก่อนหน้านั้นผมได้รับทุนโครงการแลกเปลี่ยน ไปที่ประเทศญี่ปุ่น ชื่อของทุนการศึกษานี้คือ The Friendship Program for the21st Century จัดโดย JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency)
ผมอาจเคยคิดว่าศิลปะคือการมีมาสเตอร์พีซสักชิ้น ชิ้นนั้นต้องมีสิ่งตื่นตาจนสร้าง กระแสศิลปะใหม่เกิดขึ้น คิดให้ยาก เลยไม่กล้าลงมือ ผมหนีไปอยู่ในงานที่มี ค่าจ้างค่าแรงประเมินความสามารถเป็นอัตราค่าแรง เพราะผมกลัวความจน
ผมใช้ชีวิตจนต้องเริ่มใหม่ ผมเดินออกมาจากมุม แบบเมาหมัด จนผมเริ่มตั้งการ์ด เป็น ผมไม่ต้องอยู่บนเวทีให้เจ็บตัวนี่ ผมไม่ต้องมีงานที่ต้องมีค่าจ้างก็ได้นี่ ผมวาด รูปที่ผมอยากวาดด้วยเทคนิคพื้นฐานง่ายๆ วาดไปเรื่อยๆ ธรรมชาติมันเปลี่ยนแปลง ของมัน ผมไม่ต้องคิดแทนมัน เราคือส่วนเดียวกัน แค่บันทึกมัน ผลงานจะเล่า เรื่องราวเอง
จานีน: อยากให้พูดถึงงานนิทรรศการศิลปะของคุณในหลายๆ ปีที่ผ่านมา
วธน: ตั้งแต่ปีพ.ศ. 2557 เป็นต้นมาผมได้เข้าร่วมงานนิทรรศการศิลปะสีน้ำ
นานาชาติทั้งในประเทศไทยและต่างประเทศดังต่อไปนี้
พ.ศ. 2557
- WWET World Watermedia Exposition ประเทศไทย
- Thailand watercolor to global ประเทศไทย
พ.ศ. 2558
- VIZart International Watercolor Biennale 2015 ประเทศอัลบาเนีย
พ.ศ.2559
- Pensando en grande", Large Size, International Watercolor Exhibition
2016 ประเทศเม็กซิโก
- The1st Fabriano In Acquarello Convention ประเทศอิตาลี
- The International Watercolor Society International Watercolor Triennial
Varna 2016 ประเทศบัลแกเรีย
- The International Watercolor Society,The 1st IWS International
Watercolor Biennale In Vancouver 2016 ประเทศแคนาดา
- Hua Hin BluPort International Watercolor Art Biennale 2016 ประเทศไทย
- The International Watercolor Society,Love United.The 1st International
Watercolor Biennale ประเทศฮ่องกง
- The International Watercolor Festival cum Plein Air workshop 3-10
November 2016 ประเทศเนปาล
- Master of Watercolor – Elite 2015-2016 Tirana ประเทศอัลบาเนีย
พ.ศ. 2560
- The 2nd Tirana International Watercolor Biennale April 2017,Tirana
ประเทศอัลบาเนีย
- The 2nd Fabriano In Acquarello Convention ประเทศอิตาลี
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