Muay Thai.

Last night to counteract the unsuccessful trip to Grand Palace, we successfully went to see Thai boxing (Muay Thai) at Bangkok's largest and biggest stadium. We ended up paying the tourist price and getting ringside tickets, but it was pretty exciting seeing the matches so close up. Most of the matches were about stamina and a lot of knee and elbow hits to various parts of the body.

However, the main match (with the current champion? not sure what the lady told us) was much more exciting. The boxer in blue shorts was obviously leading with his continuous hits to red's body, but surprisingly red got a direct punch to blue's face completely unexpectedly (as it all had been so much in control previously)... and the red boxer just promptly went limp. He tried to get up again, but after two punches was in no condition to stand up. I felt faint watching him!

After the main match there was a chance to get photographed with the winner, which we obviously took as what's the point of paying tourist price if you don't take the full advantage of it?! Other highlights included realising that the music wqas provided by a team of four old guys; two with drums, one with a whistle and one with some short of shaking-tingling instrument! The music they made was described by Boyfriend as "two cobras fighting and ready to strike"!