Yaar listen up. My brain is still a bit mushy from the dengue, but I swear I’ve seen some things. Weeks on dal khichdi and YouTube the algorithm just knew I needed more chaos and then BAM! Nabil Anan. This kid this absolute lanky menace, is something else. Forget your polished sports reports this is a chai-shop rant pure and unfiltered, like those grainy VHS tapes of Muay Thai I watched growing up back when my uncle would charge us 5 rupees a pop to watch “secret” fights he got from Bangkok. Good times. Though the VHS player always ate the tape halfway through a good low kick.
This “Ayroman” or “paranormal drummer” as some weird translation on one video called him, Nabil Anan. Born 2004 Pattaya, Algerian-Thai. Start with taekwondo at six then karate then by eleven bam! Muay Thai. Venom Gym the name itself sounds like something out of a comic book. He’s tall right Like 193cm at 60kg. Dude looks like a string bean but don’t let that fool you. My nani use to say, “The thinnest stick can poke the deepest hole.” She was talking about her knitting needles but it fits Nabil perfectly.
At 16, he’s apparently launching “long-range qi from his ears” which I don’t know what that means exactly, but watching his fights it feels accurate. He reaches out and just… touches people. And if they dare get close Knees and elbows a whole damn assortment. He’s all “storm pirouettes” and “eliminating positions in the rhythm of his metabolism.” Absolute madman. WBC champ in two divisions before UAN even sniffed him.
So UAN, they sign him in 2023. This is where it gets spicy. Did they ease him in HA! “Eastern matchmaking” my foot. They threw him right into Superlek Kiatmoo9 the “Kick Machine” who does these “elbow dances” and is like top 10 pound-for-pound. Superlek was champion. A proper shark. Nabil this fresh nineteen-year-old recruit in his straw hat, he just wants the “big score.”
That first Superlek fight man. Nabil was countering low kicks slicing with elbows. But Superlek he switched to the “naked torso” strategy which I think means body shots and Nabil took his first L. Early defeat. “Wisdom beyond his years” he says. Good on him. Most of us just whine when we lose a street fight in Street Fighter II.
Three months later he’s back. “Wounded body strengthened the old-fashioned way.” Whatever that means. He fights this “formidable puncher on the crob Faertex.” I think they mean Kongthoranee Fairtex but “crob Faertex” sounds like a creature from a horror film. This guy was on a four-fight winning streak. Nabil’s got this “deuce”—a jab-cross I guess?—that’s so fast so precise, you don’t even see it coming. He “awakened the Dagestani” in the guy whatever that means for a Thai fighter, and then just put him away. “Aiming crown reached its destination.” Boom. Another chin curled.
Then Muangthai Sainchai “King of Elbows” Lumpinee champ for 15 years took “two hundred souls.” Sounds like a bad movie villain no Nabil pestered him with the jab, “verified twos,” pushed him away. Muangthai kept trying to get inside but Nabil just had diving elbows and high kicks waiting. He “casually sat him down on the surface with his knee.” Done.
He turns twenty celebrates in a “Khinkalnaya” (Georgian dumpling place if you’re wondering, weirdest birthday choice for a Thai fighter, but good on him) and moves up to featherweight.
Enter “Ulabdam.” This stocky bouncer “left one in tune with his last name.” (Kulabdam, Black Rose. Left hand like a black rose Deadly I guess. My YouTube recommendations are getting even weirder these days, showing me how to make black rose tea not even kidding). He was fighter of the year in 2017. This old-school dude wanted to knock the “anime fan” out. He tried to catch Nabil’s leg hook it, shake him like a tree. But “Kulabdan did not take into account the absurd range of Anan’s knees.” That’s the key right there.
Nabil mixes body shots with knees just clawing for initiative. Kulabdam responded but he was “sagging in the Thai bindings” probably means the clinch. Kulabdam this tank, got out of a knockdown still on autopilot, but Nabil just kept going with his main weapon. He “forced to scrape another crowd favorite off the mat.” And they call him “Slenderman” now. I’m telling you this kid is a phenomenon.
Next, Felipe Lobo who had a “fight of the year” with the champ. Nabil, knocking out the front leg combined low kicks with a sniper right. Then he just beat him in pure boxing for three rounds. Best strike of the evening right on the gong. This is how you “storm into the title race in style.”
Then he faces “Sola U” the “Man of Steel,” some “head-butting Berman style of boxing” dude from China with 68 KOs in 71 wins. Seventy-one! Nabil “the pineapple” (another nickname I guess Or a translation error?), he kept his “social distance.” Threw from different stances. Hammers precise series. Second round he lets Bermanz get closer then uses elbows and knees “on the conveyor belt.” Just helpless this master getting beaten with fists. Third round “Straw Hat” (another one!) changes gears remembers his karate, “practiced ki.” Five wins in a row.
He’s earned his shot at Superlek again. But wait! January 2025 Nabil overtakes Nick Carrillo, but Superlek gets injured. So it’s Nabil vs. Carrillo for an interim belt. Carrillo the “King of the North,” huge Scotsman, “carried a bagpipe instead of a bagpipe.” (Backpack surely). This guy hadn’t let anyone hear the final gong in UAN. Favorite too.
Nabil he “tuned his antennas.” A “telescopic cross from another time zone.” He gets into “frank exchanges” throws a knee, then pulls a “stray kick from his pocket question.” The Scot gets up “meets his end in the spirit of a brave heart.” One round. Gone. Nabil takes the interim title throws it over his shoulder thanks his parents. That’s pure gold. He says it was the most significant fight not for the belt but for the “chance for revenge.”
And then, the real rematch. Superlek “kick machine,” champ in both kickboxing and Muay Thai. Beat Takeru Hagerty, freaking Rodtang. Number one P4P. They book it for One 172. Five-round unification.
BUT! Superlek misses weight. What the hell man Loses his belt fight becomes non-title, three rounds. This is where my chai nearly spilled. But Nabil Didn’t diminish his “desire to get even.”
Superlek comes in “storming the tower in swooping attacks.” But Nabil he’s different now. Improved hands switching from defense to attack like a flick of a light switch. For the first time in 168 fights Superlek hits the floor! Refuses to acknowledge it bless his stubborn heart. Nabil’s “juggling all types of offensive weapons.” Some weird translation says “Race frankly saved the swimming king,” which I think means the referee saved Superlek from a full onslaught.
Superlek just looking for an overhand now. But his “kick machine was inferior in its usual element” where the opponents bones use to cracked at the seams. Nabil’s kicks, like “a knee throw,” outsmarted him. That two-meter arm span those nimble legs. Superlek just couldn’t deal. A “real sensation.” Seven wins in UAN. His dream: “defeat the best super fighter Keat Makao.” And he did it.
Some people, they just say, “Oh, it’s his height.” Yeah sure. But how many lanky blokes just get snapped in half This “Krasava” uses his body smart. He’s bringing in new stuff all the time. He’s barely 21! He’s got room to grow maybe into heavier weights. Imagine that.
It’s not just genetics it’s that raw chaotic energy. That unpredictable rhythm. He’s not just a fighter he’s a phenomenon. I’m telling you this kid is gonna be a legend. Now if you’ll excuse me my electricity just went out, gotta finish this chai before it gets cold. And maybe find another YouTube compilation of “Ayroman’s” highlights, you know the algorithm. Always watching.