Sean Douglas TigerPitt Phuket

**Deevolution** · Posted On: 4/22/2008 4:42pm

Anyone know the deal with this guy? He claims to have the only legit camp in Phuket. According to him, all of the other camps are filled with frauds.

http://www.tigerpitt.com

Chalong Chi fight team captain
Nationality: American
Age: 34
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 135lbs
Fighting name: Hungry Tiger
Amateur fight record: Over 100 competitions
Pro fight record: 24-4
Accomplishments: Black belt in Okinawa Te Jets(bare knuckle karate), Tae Kwon Do, Pro fighter Muay Thai, Sanshou, and knockdown karate
Developed "Take A Stance" women's self defense course
Held Muay Thai seminars in Midwest and east coast America
Has fought internationally in U.S.A., Thailand, Japan, Korea, Canada, Singapore
Ranked #2 in Sanshou in the I.K.F.
Fighting 12 times in Thailand including fights on channel 11 and historical Lumpinee stadium 10-2 record in Thailand
Featured on Japanese, Korean, and Chinese T.V.
Attended K-1 U.S.A. tryouts
U.S. Marine Corps, 1993-1997 , Hand to hand combat instructor
Trained numerous champions in various styles
Trainer of F.B.I. D.E.A. S.A.S. Navy Seals and various police teams
Trained at historical Kronk Boxing Gym in Detroit Mi.
Dec 2006, KOTC Singapore title fight
KOTC World Super Fight Champion at 60 Kg

**johnny3443** · Posted On: 4/22/2008 5:27pm

Originally Posted by Deevolution

Anyone know the deal with this guy? He claims to have the only legit camp in Phuket. According to him, all of the other camps are filled with frauds.

http://www.tigerpitt.com

Chalong Chi fight team captain
Nationality: American
Age: 34
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 135lbs
Fighting name: Hungry Tiger
Amateur fight record: Over 100 competitions
Pro fight record: 24-4
Accomplishments: Black belt in Okinawa Te Jets(bare knuckle karate), Tae Kwon Do, Pro fighter Muay Thai, Sanshou, and knockdown karate
Developed "Take A Stance" women's self defense course
Held Muay Thai seminars in Midwest and east coast America
Has fought internationally in U.S.A., Thailand, Japan, Korea, Canada, Singapore
Ranked #2 in Sanshou in the I.K.F.
Fighting 12 times in Thailand including fights on channel 11 and historical Lumpinee stadium 10-2 record in Thailand
Featured on Japanese, Korean, and Chinese T.V.
Attended K-1 U.S.A. tryouts
U.S. Marine Corps, 1993-1997 , Hand to hand combat instructor
Trained numerous champions in various styles
Trainer of F.B.I. D.E.A. S.A.S. Navy Seals and various police teams
Trained at historical Kronk Boxing Gym in Detroit Mi.
Dec 2006, KOTC Singapore title fight
KOTC World Super Fight Champion at 60 Kg

Frauds? in what way?
This place has a forum you can ask questions about other gyms.
http://www.rawaimuaythai.com/

**Deevolution** · Posted On: 4/22/2008 5:31pm

He stated that the other gyms in Phuket put their students into worked fights and some of the trainers have fabricated records.

**It is Fake** · Posted On: 4/22/2008 5:40pm

What are your specific claims of fraud? Outline what is fraudulent in his credentials, services or his claims.

Going through the website he is advertising he is the best gym.

**oni** · Posted On: 4/23/2008 3:46pm

met sean briefly when i was at rawai muay thai in 2005. seemed like a really nice guy. was a good martial artist. left before he set up his own camp/gym.

**jamesg1980** · Posted On: 5/25/2008 1:04am

He really said that?

If this is true its absolutely unbelievable.

There's loads of muay thai gyms in phuket and tigerpitt used to be one of the better ones (its shut down now) but how can he possibly claim all the other gyms are filled with frauds and he has the only legit gym on the island?

Now THAT really is BS.

**Tenchu** · Posted On: 5/25/2008 5:11am

He might be some BS worth investigating... But there aint much left to investigate, really. LOL.

Chalong Chai is located literally about 200m from Tiger Muay Thai - that is the gym I train at and am at now.

Chalong Chai has officially closed down in that location, but they may reopen elsewhere. I dont know. The ring there has just been sold to my gym, and been put up, and the bags and other equiptment are coming over as well. Simply, their gym sucked too much, and they lost their customers to Tiger. Whichever gym decided to build on the same street as another was an idiot, but I dont know who was there first, but in the end Tiger won.

About fight rigging, I am not certain, but am told he is the one rigging.

Hmn, I will post you the PM I got from the owner of Tiger Muay Thai when I enquired about the gym closing down, then you guys know what I know:

Sawasdee Bow,
Sorry, name post got me confused.
I hope you and wife are doing better.
Yes, they closed after a failed attempt at competing with TMT. I agreed to buy the ring and bags. They have closed and posted news on website. The foreigner that owned it, supposedly, was also accused of setting up fights and paying people to lose. Soon the land will be bungalows for TMT guests.

Cheers

Will

I could not see any post on their web site, but. I dunno.

The place would not have gotten customers come back after the first stay, anyway. It had only 1 ring, several bags, and really no room for training larger numbers of students... It was too small.

**Tenchu** · Posted On: 5/25/2008 5:16am

Originally Posted by It is Fake

What are your specific claims of fraud? Outline what is fraudulent in his credentials, services or his claims.

Going through the website he is advertising he is the best gym.

Well his gym sucked. I find most gyms in Thailand are not what they seem on the net. I have only been impressed overly by 1 yet, and that is Tiger Muay Thai. Another good gym I have seen, but not trained at, yet they have good rep and good facilities, coz I been there, is Sinbi Muay Thai, also in Phuket.

Other gyms might have good trainers, but most lack facilities or room or something. Some gyms do not have good trainers. Muay Thai Institute in Bangkok trainers were shockers. I left there. I did not want to be trained by old drunks, even if they did have good fight records from back in their day, their day has been and gone.

**jamesg1980** · Posted On: 5/25/2008 8:23am

' Sawasdee Bow,
Sorry, name post got me confused.
I hope you and wife are doing better.
Yes, they closed after a failed attempt at competing with TMT. I agreed to buy the ring and bags. They have closed and posted news on website. The foreigner that owned it, supposedly, was also accused of setting up fights and paying people to lose. Soon the land will be bungalows for TMT guests.

Cheers

Will '

Yes he has been accused of setting up fights and paying people to lose - by you.

Just as you have been accused of setting up fights and paying people to lose - by him.

It didn't close 'cos of TMT it closed cos 'the foreigner that owned it' Sean Douglas (who used to be one of the owners of TMT, hence all the aggro) left the country and split up with his wife who was the co-owner.

Prior to the gym shutting down it had about 9 students training, as Sean claimed he never allowed more than 9 students there at a time anyway, I don't think it was doing too badly.

Chalong chai was a good place to train.

TMT probably is a good place to train (ive never trained there so i can't comment)

So why go to so much trouble to slag each other off?

It seems kind of sad.

**nik82** · Posted On: 5/25/2008 10:54am

i have trained at Tiger Muay Thai, and Rawai, and I can say hands down that Tiger is the better of the two(and not just in Muay Thai) indeed the best gym I have ever trained at, so good I haven't been able to find a gym at home that is as good. i continue to be dissapointed everywhere i go lol. (thanks will)

If this guy said that, he was smokin' something.

=Niki