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The Sports Journalist
All quotes by Matt Lucas, TV commentator.
If asked to imagine a Muay Thai (Thai boxing) ring, the first image that comes to mind is probably something akin to the cheesy 1980s Jean-Claude Van Damme action flick Kickboxer—a rustic concrete square beneath a leaky tin roof in some rural backwater, the sounds of flesh pounding flesh and grunting accompanied by the squawks of chickens and the breeze through palms.
And indeed, in many parts of Thailand they’d be correct.
However, they do things bigger in Pattaya.
