The Thailand group. A few notes on this picture: yes, in the upper left that is the finger of the beer vendor taking our picture. Yes, I finally got my linen shirt. Yes, I wish he had indicated that you could see up my shorts a bit.
No hot dogs or peanuts here, fruit is the accompaniment of choice with the beer.
A shot of the crowd. You would constantly see people running around with their fingers in the air, looking back into the crowd. I'm not sure what they were doing as betting is illegal...
Foreigners, like Doug here, were supposed to be sitting higher up. We ignored the sign.
To start, there is a small ritual where it appears as though the fighters are paying their respects to the ring spirits. I'm not sure, but that would be my guess.
On with the fight! I went 3-0 in picking fighters so I decided to place a small wager. My fighter was taken out on a stretcher, really. Guess I don't have a future in gambling for a living!
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