Do you watch muay thai?

[Harrisfan]

I like to watch it on tv. Good fights between farangs and Thais.

 

 

[Hummin]

Follow some few athletes in boxing in general, UFC and One Championship. 

 

One Championships have Muay Thai athletes to 

 

https://youtube.com/@onechampionship?si=DkDe0n9HIcjmmBpV

[proton]

Never it's boring, prefer Sumo

[zz4096]

No I don't, it's racist. I went to that stadium on Rama IV about 28 years ago, Ratchasomething. I went to the ticket booth and saw a sign in Thai with the numbers in Thai script. 200 baht. So I handed them 2 reds but they refused to take them.

 

Told me to fk off and go to another ticket office where the price was 1,000 baht. I was a backpacker with limited funds, not a two week millionare. That would feed me for a week. They can shove their Muay Thai where the sun don't shine.

[kevozman1]

4 minutes ago, zz4096 said:

No I don't, it's racist. I went to that stadium on Rama IV about 28 years ago, Ratchasomething. I went to the ticket booth and saw a sign in Thai with the numbers in Thai script. 200 baht. So I handed them 2 reds but they refused to take them.

 

Told me to fk off and go to another ticket office where the price was 1,000 baht. I was a backpacker with limited funds, not a two week millionare. That would feed me for a week. They can shove their Muay Thai where the sun don't shine.

 

Yes they are notoriously scammy at stadiums/events, happened to me years ago. It's a big reason why Muay Thai never took off, and now it's mostly known as something people incorporate into MMA gyms. Without trust people lose interest or don't invest, don't promote. It's the adage of most people in third world countries that they will take 1,000 dollars today rather than 10,000 in a year.

[kevozman1]

12 minutes ago, zz4096 said:

No I don't, it's racist. I went to that stadium on Rama IV about 28 years ago, Ratchasomething. I went to the ticket booth and saw a sign in Thai with the numbers in Thai script. 200 baht. So I handed them 2 reds but they refused to take them.

 

Told me to fk off and go to another ticket office where the price was 1,000 baht. I was a backpacker with limited funds, not a two week millionare. That would feed me for a week. They can shove their Muay Thai where the sun don't shine.

 

Although I will say back then.. and I may be being a little generous here.. that they wanted to give you a VIP seat. The stands back then were quite wild in Muay Thai, and a random foreigner could get some problems. Thesedays it's much more docile.

[Peter Crow]

No, no one should watch primitive, brutal manure.

 

All forms of boxing should be banned, they don't even het close to be sports, they are mere outlets for animal violence.

[bkk6060]

Yes, but only the women fights.

[zz4096]

5 hours ago, kevozman1 said:

 

Although I will say back then.. and I may be being a little generous here.. that they wanted to give you a VIP seat. The stands back then were quite wild in Muay Thai, and a random foreigner could get some problems. Thesedays it's much more docile.

 

Perhaps. I was new to Thailand at the time and although it was mostly good experiences I encountered just a little bit too much of the "you pay, you pay, you farang you have money big" attitude. It sticks in the craw.

 

At the time the Pacific Peso was only buying 22 baht so 1k was a lot of money. I was paying 80 baht per night for a hovel on Soi Rambuttri and large beer Changs (original recipe) were only 40 baht so it seemed like a king's ransom to me at the time. Anyway their loss, I went to Nana Plaza and eked out my meagre budget in the go-gos then took the bus back home for 3.50 baht 😂