issueWomen in the ring

ผู้หญิงบนเวที · phu ying bon wethi

The rule was about the ring itself, not about fighting.

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What it is

Women fight professionally in Thailand, at every provincial ring and on stadium cards. The restriction that made the sport famous for excluding them was about the raised ring at particular stadiums.

The long version

Tradition holds — the prohibition is not a rule about women fighting. It is a rule about a woman passing under the top rope of a consecrated ring, on the grounds that it would remove the ring's protection. At the stadiums that kept it, women entered over the top rope instead of under it, or did not enter.

This project does not have a current, dated statement of the rule at either Bangkok stadium, and does not print one it cannot name. What it can report is the record: Wikidata's census holds 248 Thai fighters and five of them are women — which is a measurement of who gets written about, not of who fights.

Nong Toom went through the middle of all of it in 1998 and the establishment took her up in months, because the gate went up.

Connected to

• Nong Toom Who went through it.
• Who the record remembers The five.
• The mongkhon The other consecrated object.

Named here by

• Nong Toom The rule she went around.
• Who the record remembers What the five sit next to.
• What this site does not have The rule not named.
• wethi The tradition it sits under.

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