ruleWhat a fighter is paid
ค่าตัว · kha tua
100,000 baht for a superstar in 2016. The gate that night was worth more.
What it is
Purse figures, and the cuts taken out of them before the fighter sees anything.
The long version
The English article gives three figures and they are worth holding together. In the 1980s and 1990s top fighters commanded up to 200,000 baht. In 2016 a payout to a superstar was about 100,000 baht, ranging as high as 540,000. And the purse is "sought as a means of support for the fighters and their families" after other parties have their cut — the camp, the trainer, the manager.
Set that against the 40 billion baht a year estimated to move through the betting, and against the note in the same article that the going rate to lose a fight on purpose is 60,000 to 150,000 baht.
Inference — a sport where throwing a fight pays the same as winning one is not being held together by its purses.
Connected to
- The gambling floor The money that is actually moving.
- Children in the ring Why a family puts a nine-year-old on a card.
- Isan Where most of the fighters come from.
Named here by
- The gambling floor What a fighter is paid against it.
- Isan The money.
- Children in the ring The money in question.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there