Retired fighters, what to do about them (Part 1/2)
This may not a very important issue for you who do not intend to be trained as a professional fighters. But for Professional Thai fighters, who fight almost entire of their live and what interesting to me is what do they do when they become a retired fighters. What interest me the most is what happening here in Thailand is that no matter how much money they earned during the time he was a fighter, but when he retired, I could not see anyone who have become rich or happy with the money that they earned. I personally do not know the reason why they have come like this so this what I mean it is really interesting to me. Now let’s see what usually happen to them after the retirement.
Dead, Disable
This is sad but true. Muay Thai gave them a lot of money when they fight, the more reputable they are, the more money they gain. But the fact is that more fights they have, the more usage and destruction of the body they will get. Many of famous Muay Thai fighter just died or disable by the disease that due to the severe of the body, especially the brain, what found in most case is brain cancer.
Coach
I personally do not know many of fighters who finally turned to coach when they retired. It is also really surprise to me because I should see very good fighters are also capable to be a good coach too. However, in fact, there are still some of them who work for many Muay Thai gym, but only being coach, not the gym owner.
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