Wtf is the minimum age to become a Thai prizefighter???

You ever feel exploited in your first jobs as a young man? I wonder how boxing compares to delivering newspapers and pizzas? As for the risks, I'm not sure they are any worse than say high school wrestling.

Part of the outrage I'm seeing here is that adults are profiting off of youths. Some people are concerned for the kids health and some people are more interested in the ethics of child labor. This has a bit of a feel of the whole college athletes not getting paid debate. It's sort of like, okay, let 'em box but don't let them get paid? Which is worse, the amateur exploitation or the professional exploitation?

 

no. i will only speak for myself now, but this is about culture.
if you and i start to make money from our respective childs fighting, then the question of morality starts and ends with you and I. now if our neighbors start to make money off of it also, then it becomes a culture among us. the morality question is no longer defining just the parents, but all of us enabling and promoting them also.

 

Try telling that to some o the mod ****s that are banning people for swearing yet do it them selves

 

Remember what happened when you went to Vietnam...........

If you feel so strongly about it get over there and get the campaign going, and take CST80 with you and start beating the drum around muay thai and boxing events.

 

What a cop out, he should be banned then like the rest

 

It's not nice to hear people talking bad about Thailand especially the ones who claim to have visited yet appear to know nothing about Thai society. Yes kids practice Muay thai, yes some people eat dogs and **** fighting is a Sunday afternoon tradition.

Now tell me how great and problem free your country is because people will focus on the small negatives and not the vast positives that this country brings to its people as a developing nation. You all sound like white trash.

 

Freedom, adults, first amendment, blah blah blah...

 

I am white trash. That's probably why I'm for this stuff. I got in fights all the time as a kid. It would have been nice if someone had put me into a nice boxing or karate program to discipline me and let me work out all of that negative energy. I probably fought a hundred times and I never made a dime. I just got suspended and expelled.

 

You are right there is a cultural divide at work in all this. It's not just between the US and Thailand. There are parts of America that don't understand how other parts of America work. I was taking a college class in California recently. I mentioned I'd been on my high school rifle team in Colorado to a guy. He mentioned that his high school had a school shooting drill on the first day of duck season; so all the kids went out to their trucks and got their shotguns. Everyone else just stared at us like we'd grown another head. You can't talk about eating a hamburger around some people here, and definitely don't tell them you like to hunt. They all clutch their pearls and act like you're some sort of savage barbarian.

If I had a kid, I'd rather he boxed than played soccer. But knowing kids today, he'd probably be twirling a baton trying out for the cheerleader team, or with his head stuck in a phone ignoring me.

 

when i was 13, my family would travel to my paternal grandmothers house for holidays with all my cousins. my cousins and i, all of us under 14, would have the adults drop us off at the river outside of town, with fishing rods and rifles, to spend a couple days camping on our own. i dont remember any of the adults being overly concerned that a gaggle of kids were out in the woods alone for days wielding firearms. they would show up a couple of days later for a bbq and eat anything we caught or killed.
looking back it seems so irresponsible, but at the time, it was not unusual to trust a 13yo to understand the dangers of handling a firearm and trusting him to be responsible. had one of us accidentally shot the other, my memories and views would probably be completely different.

 

Its acceptable to allow a kid to grow fat as **** quaffing burgers n fries, guzzling sodas, look at all the fatties going around in schools.

In all the Muay Thai gyms ive been in the kids are well looked after, go to school, train and eat very healthy, are matched against opponents of similar age and skill level, the parents are paid for the matches thier kid fights in.

Its a way of life out there, and much better than being blown up obese kid with numerous health problems physical and mental waiting down the road for them.

 

I see CTE in his future :/

 

Yeah and i also remember he was finished and shot well before he was 30

 

What is the difference between these kids competing and all American hero Daniel LaRusso?