 How's your health insurance?
Um, few people actually die right in the ring. This is in part because the Thais are very superstitious about dying in the ring. I saw a guy get knocked out cold at Lumpenee Stadium. What ensued shocked me. The guys came into the ring with a stretcher and basically threw him onto the stretcher and literally ran out of the ring. The poor guy's head got caught on one of the ropes and he nearly came off the stretcher before they caught him.
I was shocked the first time I saw that as well. I was watching a fight where one fighter threw a high round kick, his opponent leaned back hard into the ropes as the kick went by. As he rebounded off the ropes, the other fighter kept his momentum and came back around with a spinning elbow and caught him square in the side of the head. The guy dropped like a sack of spanky potatos and did not get back up. The ref gets down and grabs his head and starts shaking it trying to wake him up, blood is pouring out of the guys mouth. Next thing you know, two guys run into the ring, grab the guy and practically throw him onto the stretcher, and race back out looking like the two guys who race around to bring you that giant bowl of ice cream on a stretcher at Farrels Ice Cream parlor. The guy was bouncing all over the place and practically fell off. Quite scary.
William
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