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Originally Posted by patiwat
- Muay Thai fighters get interesting awards for fighting technique or for taking damage. During the big shows, there will be special awards for Mae Mai Muay Thai (????????????; old school Muay Thai) moves that are difficult to land, like reverse elbows (sok klab), spinning back kicks (jarakhay faad haang), roundhouse kicks to the neck (tae kaan khor). Fighters are also paid for bleeding, by the stitch.
- Muay Thai fighters often get paid in gold. At the ends of big fights, you'll see them get gold chains. The chains are measured in baht weights, with 1 baht being equal to about 15 grams. At the end of the Isuzu D-Max tournament, the winner got gold chains weighing 80 baht (that's over a kilogram!).
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The awards for the k.o's with those type of techniques dont realy happen that often and are usually pretty much limited to the t.v fights, you don't tend to see the fighters to do too much of that on the regular mid week stadium shows as the gamblers prefer to see the straight forward solid techniques. As for the paid to bleed, again this is only on certain t.v shows, where a certain brand of medicine will give the fighters money, about 500 baht a stitch. They will get a little bit on the regular shows, but this is more to cover medical expenses.
It isn't that often they get paid in gold, maybe two or 3 of the big tournaments the fighters will get it in the final fights