Has Thai boxing fights on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. It’s not just the athletic kick-boxing that you get to see but the pre-fight ceremonies and the frantic betting. And it all comes with music from a small orchestra, which varies its program depending on the pace of the boxing.
Thai boxing has been around for 500 years. The ancient rulers were masters of the art and insisted that all their fighting forces were trained in hand-to-hand combat; it is still used in military training today. What you see today is tame compared to the old days, when the fists became weapons of mega-destruction. The hands were bandaged with string and sprinkled with fragments of glass, then submerged in a gooey substance that eventually set rock hard. Then the battle commenced. It could be one of the reasons the country was never colonized.
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