I think sittichai is taking the bigger risk here. He’s a kickboxer. Not a mt fighter. He hasn’t fought another Thai under these rules for years let alone someone like tawanchai.
Sittichai was preparing for a kb match vs Tayfun a orthodox Dutch stylist whilst Tawnchai was preparing for a southpaw Thai under these exact settings.
I wanna see a good experienced southpaw Thai vs Petrosyan and with petchpanomrung out of the picture and Rittewada lacking experience sittichai is the best opponent. Would of loved to seen them fight a few years ago but now is better than ever. Losing to superbon and then losing again to tawanchai will look bad and probably end the chances of that fight happening. And it’s not like those loses mean sittichai is now a bad fighter. It’s just the opponents he’s being matched up against which casuals don’t get. Put Petrosyan in there against tawanchai under mt rules and he’d probably lose. But instead he gets that Davit “make me look good” Kiria type of opponent.