How to fight shorter opponents

1/Prioritise your lead side.

Your jabs and teeps will always land before your opponents. Disrupt their rhythm on entering, and set your own pace.

2/Keep your distance.

Step back out after you strike, move off to an angle when your opponent pressures, move laterally around the ring.

(This goes for all fighters, but especially for those with a reach advantage)

3/Remember your knees.

A shorter fighter’s objective is to get close. And if they do> grab them and knee.

(Nabil executes this perfectly at 2:30)

Tall Muay Thai fighters to watch:

• Dieselnoi

• Petchmorakot

• Luke Lessei

• Nabil Anane

• Singdam Kiatmuu9

• Chujaroen

• Rangkhao

• Tawanchai