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Yes I agree with you about muay thai, but boxing has many tools for self defense as well.
You can train for the ring or you can train for self defense and for the street.
Of course, as it has alredy been mentioned, muay thai has more tools in its arsenal.
The fights you mention in ancient Myanmar can have an echo in old British pugilism.
you can see that it was successfully employed by smaller fighters
to beat bigger and stonger ones, and the rules (or lack of) weren't as restrictive as those
of modern boxing.
Then of coures you can think of the ancient Greeks and Romans whose bare-knuckle tournaments
were even more brutal.
You can train for the ring or you can train for self defense and for the street.
Of course, as it has alredy been mentioned, muay thai has more tools in its arsenal.
The fights you mention in ancient Myanmar can have an echo in old British pugilism.
you can see that it was successfully employed by smaller fighters
to beat bigger and stonger ones, and the rules (or lack of) weren't as restrictive as those
of modern boxing.
Then of coures you can think of the ancient Greeks and Romans whose bare-knuckle tournaments
were even more brutal.
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