Claim to fame: • World champion Super Heavy Weight WKL (World Kickboxing League) 2009 • 2007 Brazilian Muaythai champion • 2006 Brazilian Vale Tudo tournament champion • 2004 Vitória EXtreme Fight MMA Grand Prix champion • 2004 K-1 Brazil Challenge champion • 2004 WKN Brazilian Muay Thai champion • 2003 World M-1 Kickboxing GP in Venezia third place • 2nd place in K-1 Brazil Grand Prix 2003 (São Paulo-SP) • 2003 K-1 World Grand Prix Preliminary Brazil runner up[3] • 2003-05 Brazilian Muay Thai Confederation champion
Why him: He knows what he wants and never ever gives up his dream!
His tattoos:Maiorino has numerous tattoos on his body. Most of them are dragons in various forms such as tribal, in black and white and in colors.
So far, these are what we spotted… 1. Right Arm -Japanese letters -Ancient warrior -Female portrait 2. Left Arm -Thai letters mean “Good Luck” -Tribal dragons 3. Back: - Dragon 4. Torso -Dragon (on the right side) -Dragon (on the left side) -Asian warrior (on the left side) 5. Right Leg -Dragon 6. Left Leg -Cross
Check out pictures of his spectacular inked artworks below!
How was your weekend? It's getting rainy here in Bangkok... For Martial Monday today we have a profile of The Contender Asia’s fighter: John Wayne Parr...the man below!
Btw, the tattoo on his chest says "Bunchoo" a name of his gym.
Parr started Muay Thai at 11. Even though at that time he began with other martial art, not Muay Thai (he started with Taekwondo), he started to learn martial art when the age even younger than many of Thai Muay Thai champions. He is a 32 years old Aussie from Queensland, Australia.
During his first start learning martial arts in his teenage years, he started to practice in his home town in Queensland with one of the top promoters Blair Moore. Then at the age of 20, Parr made very significant achievements: he got an Australian Title and a South Pacific Title
In the year 1995, Parr started learning Muay Thai when he moved to Thailand and joined several Muay Thai camps both in Bangkok and Pattaya for a few years where he also gained experienced with 30 fights and winning two world titles. Parr then moved back to Australia again to open his own gym. Apart from that, Parr is very well known as one of the best Muay Thai instructors for the camp Boonchu. He is also ranked in the top ten of WMC World ranking (World Muay Thai Council)
Here are all titles and awards of Parr's
2008 International Kickboxer Magazine Belt
2008 WKBA World Champion Defense
2008 WMC Contender Asia Runner up
2007 WMC Middleweight World Champion
2005 WKBA World Champion
2004 S-1 World Middleweight Tournament Champion
2001 Australian Boxing Middleweight Champion
2001 Kings Cup Champion
2000 IMF Kings Cup World Middleweight Champion
2000 ISKA World Middleweight Champion
1999 Winner Kings Cup
1999 WMC Australian Jr. Middleweight Champion
1997 Best Farang Fighter in Thailand.
1994 WKA South Pacific Super Lightweight Champion
1992 WKA Australian Super Lightweight Champion
John Wayne Parr and the Contender Asia
Parr is probably one of the strongest fighters in this tournament. Since he is very skilled and experienced in Muay Thai for many years as well as being in a very healthy condition, his opponents will have a very difficult game when fighting with him. Also, the most interesting aspect of Parr is the leadership that we could see during the tournament, and this is a very good practice of being great a “fighter” and “teacher” (as he also teaches many of student in Boonchu gym in Australia). Even though he did not win the title in the Contender Asia, he is still one of the best Muay Thai fighters that many people could remember, especially in the aspect of Nak Muay Farang (Foreign Muay Thai fighter) who gets massive achievements in both Thailand and overseas.
Youtube Review
This fight is probably almost 10 years back but it is a very interesting fight. It is his fight with Orono Por Muang Ubon. Orono, at that time is one of the greatest fighters who is almost unbeatable. The exciting moments started from the first two rounds when Parr was gaining advantage and he made really effective punch attacks, mean while Orono seemed to lose his control in terms of both defense and strike back.
The last 3 rounds were more exciting when Orono tired to attack since he knew that he had to, otherwise he would lose. However, Parr even offered better “leg kicks” throughout and this is the key strategy for him to win this fight.
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Sawassdeekrub! My name is TUFFguy. I'm one of the TUFFSPORTcrew. My specialty is Martial Arts and Muaythai in general. I have been told that I look quite like Sagat from Streetfighters... what do you say?
"Muaythai" is what we, Thai people, call our own martial art.
In the ancient times, no advanced weapons had been invented, so Thailand had to encounter and fight with various intruders to protect the land.
Muaythai is the art of using human's toughest organs such as head, fists, elbows, knees and feet (if you’re doing the math: it’s the art of 9 limbs) as weapons to injure enemies.
Not only tough guys like me can practise this self-defense art, everyone can learn Muaythai. The most important thing is how teachers or "Kru Muays" consider accepting someone to be a student.
Why? At that time, Thai soldiers were trained Muaythai to protect communities and defense themselves in the battle. Today, the goal of learning Muaythai is still the same, which is "to learn the self-defense". "Kru Muay" have to make sure that if someone want to learn Muaythai, they want to learn "the art of defense" not to bully others.
To tell you the truth, learning Muaythai is not only about learning the art of fighting, you have to learn our "cultures and norms” and concern about the "ritual" and "superstition" of Muaythai. And of course, I’m sure you know that any culture could not be taught and learnt simply just by reading books or watching videos.
How was your weekend? We had a blast on Friday: we went to Khaosarn Road and asked the lucky tourists there to model for us, they got one apparel: t-shirt or short for free!
Plus they got to take photos with our Muaythai fighters. Photos and videos are coming up soon!
We hope you're doing well! Only a day before our Kaosarn Road trip! We're exicited! It's almost Friday so let's take a small break and get productive before the weekend...
As mentioned earlier, we're going to Kaosarn Roadthis Friday for our marketing campaign. What's gonna happen there? It's still a surprise! But it involves some actions like these...
We're going to Kaosarn Roadthis Friday for our marketing campaign. What's gonna happen there? It's still a surprise! But it involves some actions like these...
Hello / Sawassdeekrub / Hola / Selam / Salut / Hejsan! (insert greeting in your language)
First, let us introduce ourselves. We are called TUFFSPORT, a company residing in Thailand. Sport is one of our interests. Muaythai and martial arts are some of them.
Figure 1.1 TUFFSPORT Interests
Well, to follow our content, you don’t need to be professional fighters, just regular people who enjoy fighting sports in general. Now, you may wonder why we start to utilize the social / online media. “Wait, is this a cliche of another company trying to sell their products via social / online network to me again?” Is it like that? Just hear us out before you jump into any conclusion…
Let’s see… based on figure 1.1 above: Our interests are sports, arts, traveling, etc This means if you find our craft appealing, feel free to join us. If you don’t, hey it’s OK. We’re not going force you to. But please bear in mind that joining us will provide you additional benefits and privileges such as
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P.S. By the way, Angelina Jolie mentioned she trained Muaythai and found it “long and beautiful” in her new movie, Salt here. Just so you know.
