Continued 1st chapter

After the war in 1921, it was built in the space of the football field of the Suan Khulab school, the first boxing stadium. It had a square ring with 26 by 26 meters. At Suan Khulab Boxing Stadium, spectators could sit or stand around the ring. At that time, was part of the equipment of athletes shorts, a coconut shell to protect the genitals, mongkom and paprachiat. They wrapped their hands in cotton yarns and the umpires wore a Thai uniform consisting of a royal shirt and white socks.
    
From that point on, the term muay-boran was used to define the nine-point technique where it was possible to use wrists, legs, elbows, knees and head to neutralize the opponent as quickly as possible, To the death often resorting to suffocation. The old technique of chupasart socializes and passes definitively to a sport called muay thai. A memorable combat of this time was between 50-year-old Muen Mad Man and Nai Pong Prabsabod of 22. Nai Pong Prabsabod was a tall young man just arrived from the town of Korat to avenge the death of his father who was the victim of an attack whose head was Muen Mad Man. In the ring in the second minute and much hatred in the middle, Muen Mad Man is knocked out by Nai Pong. Spectators who knew the motives of this meeting vibrated and invaded the battle space to celebrate with Nai Pong. This invasion was an alert to the authorities, in order to realize how muay thai was disorganized. The moods between the athletes and the supporters often led to the fights spreading out of the ring, generating a lot of violence. For this and other reasons, a regulatory committee was created that decided among many things that the ring should be at least four meters above the ground, be covered with compacted grass mats and surrounded by ropes with the diameter of an inch . There was no room left for each fighter to enter near his corner and the referee would wear a full uniform, suitable for arbitration. The intervals would be controlled by a timer with two clocks and a drum, which signaled the return to combat. The combats happened to have 11 assaults of three minutes each. The athletes would only retreat for break when the referee so understood, it would be forbidden to bite or attack while the opponent was down, at which point they would have to return to their corner and wait for the referee's decisions. Songs for the fights came to be played by Muen Samak Siangprachit's orchestra in every round.

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