What is 8IGHT STRIKES? Charlie Herdman explains a new fight sport on FightingDad
All three of the week's uploads went to the stand-up promotion, from a face-off between Ellis Shepherd and Nathan Leeson to a Scottish puncher facing Divine Aigbekean.
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What is 8IGHT STRIKES? 👊🏼
"What is 8IGHT STRIKES? 👊🏼" is an interview, and the man doing the explaining is Charlie Herdman. On FightingDad, he lays out a new stand-up combat sport that the description says is built for pure entertainment, rolling the best parts of striking into one rule set. The tags hint at the flavor: small gloves, Muay Thai and a nod to bare knuckle boxing.
The channel stayed with that promotion all week. A second upload puts Ellis Shepherd and Nathan Leeson head to head for a face-off and interview before their meeting at an Under 8ight Strikes event, with the description asking viewers to pick a winner. A third previews Aigbekean against Houston, with Marc billed as the hardest man in Scotland and Divine on the other side.
All three are still finding their crowd, each with somewhere around a thousand views or fewer. The real traffic comes from elsewhere: "The GIANT Got KNOCKED OUT 🔥," twelve days old and past 630,000 views, in which a much bigger fighter ends up face down on the mat after a single punch. A spinning head kick knockout from last month and a boxing combination taught by coach Sajid Abid trail far behind it.
Overall the channel ran a little cooler than usual, and its subscriber count held still. Among the combat sports channels close to its size, FULL SEND MMA and FTC Boxing were running well above their usual pace, while UFC FIGHT PASS and Free MMA Gyms were quieter. For FightingDad, the giant's knockout is doing most of the work while the new 8IGHT STRIKES series finds its feet.
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Muay Thai, one of the styles in the 8IGHT STRIKES mix, is the national sport of which country?
Muay Thai developed in Thailand, where it is widely regarded as the national sport.
