i hope no one irish reads my post today :P being a new ong bak/tony jaa fan and all, i was checking out a bunch of sites and i happened to stumble across this piece of information on the muay thai section of the australian ong bak site (go check it out! the other links too!):
"In 1767, Thailand was at war with the Burmese and a champion [Thai] boxer Nai Kahnomtom was captured by the Burmese king Angwa. King Angwa called for a boxing match, the first Muay Thai match outside of Thailand and Nai Kahnomtom defeated all ten Burmese challengers in succession, with no rest at all between the ten fights.
"As a result, Nai Khanomtom was honored as The Father of Muay Thai and the day of the fight, March 17th is now officially named ‘Muay Thai day’ in Thailand."
what are the chances i'd discover that today?? so yah, i figured recognition of muay thai day ought to take precedence over st. patrick's day... on my blog, at least :)
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*grin* how bout this... knock me out and i'll go to the concert :P and as a bonus for being such a sport, i'll even give u ur own copy of ong bak... deal?? muahahahaha!
The website I promised you.
http://www.ats.edu/members/lists/geograph.html
lynn
what's all this talk about knocking ppl out? what ever happened to good ole fashioned blackmail or guilt trips? :D
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