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Muay Thai Place: Patong, Phuket, Thailand Tags: Thai Boxing |
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The night before last we went to see some Thai Boxing or Muay Thai at Bangala stadium in Patong. A word of advice. If you're going to do this, don't get there early. There's a truck that drives through the streets during the day promoting the fight with a recording of music and this guys voice saying "Thai Boxing, big fight, real fight, super real fight...etc..". Well they take that recording at play it in the arena at unbelievably high volume to promote the fight for an hour before it starts. So we got there half an hour early and had to listen to the super-real-fight soundtrack for half an hour. Sounds like I'm whining? Don't say I didn't warn ya. ;)
The boxing itself was pretty awesome. There were nine fights and they start off with the youngest fighters who are about 8 years old and the last fights are the experience fighters. There's a religious or spiritual ceremony before each fight where the fighters walk around the ring and go through a series of movements which is quite beautiful. The fighting is extremely agressive and there were three knockouts during the evening. The best knockout was a chinese fighter who I thought I heard the announcer say was cross-trained in kung fu. He knocked out his opponent with a kick to the head.
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