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Watch A Muay Thai Fight

They hold fights every night after 8:00 pm or so. The place gets pretty busy, so it’s smart to get there right on time. At first, there are two young boys (and I mean, young-young. Like, probably not legal in most other places in the world) who fight. Regardless of the fact that it is clearly staged, it was mildly uncomfortable watching what looks like two 12 year-olds “fighting”.  After their fight is over, it’s the audience’s turn! They ask two people from the audience to step into the ring and fight each other: the winner gets a free bucket of alcohol. Not the most enticing offer, but people did get up there. First we watched two guys fight and then two girls. I’m sure as the night goes on and peoples blood alcohol content rise, there are more volunteers and more dramatic matches.

4 July 2019