Laos, Muay Lao
Many of the Muay Lao fighters are surprisingly young. Outside the ring the young lightweight boxers with sometimes way too big boxing shorts look pretty harmless, but once they enter the ring the wiry and unbridled fighters show their full potential. A match consists of five three-minute rounds, this a very long time, and in order to save energy very often the fight in the first round looks more like a dance than a real fight. But with the sound of the bell to open up the second round all containment is gone and the iron will to win the fight takes over. Very often the fighters are starting to clinch. Opposed to western style boxing, where a clinch is not very much desired and mostly used to regain some energy, a clinch in Muay Lao is an important part of the fight: the boxer tries to throw the opponent to the ground to set a major point. At the same time a clinch is highly risky, because knee and elbow strikes in a clinch can weaken the opponent or lead in the best case to a sudden knockout. Very often one fighter in a clinch has a slight better position to land repeatedly one strike after the other, the audience loves that and supports each strike with a loud cheering.
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