Mui Thai Boxing

Thursday, Feb 11th. I moved into an en-suit with a king size bed, 300 baht. Yeah, living in luxary baby! I'm still in the same guesthouse called Muan Baan on Moonmuang Rd, Soi 7. Its run by the family and the staff are very nice. I talk to the owner every time I see her. She's a very lovely lady and at 60 years old, works too hard.

I didn't start my day until 17:00. I was feeling really tired from the trek. My muscles really started to ache today. I wonder if the massage last night had anything to do with it.

I met up with Steve and Mike again and we went for dinner followed by mui Thai boxing. Tickets were 300 baht each for us because the owner of the spa across from my guesthouse knows the guy running the mui Thai place so we each got 100 baht off. I think this one that we watched is just a show put on for tourists because 99% of the audiance were foreigners. I want to see a real match, the ones that Thai people like to watch.

The first few matches were fought by 13 year old kids. There were one girls match and it turned out to be the best. They were really going at each other. Followed by a special fight with 4 people in the ring, fighting blind folded and they just swing at anything they can touch, including the ref. The last two fights were adult fighters.

I made a few bets on the matches. Nothing too big, 100 baht each. It's very informal. You pick the boxer that you think is going to win then if the other person disagrees, then you bet with them and the money is put on the table. By the end of the night, I was down by 100 baht.