Muay Thai Stuff’s Blog

As mentioned earlier in the previous article that it is really interesting for Thai fighters who finished their career a professional fighters and they seem not even have better live as when they are fighter, so it is interesting to discover why this happen and here are other job that they do after the retirement.

Business Jobs
This is very common type of career that many of fighters do when they retired. Even though it is really rare to see those who are very success but generally they spend some money on small family business. I can see the very interesting example of this case a bout one fighter who received more than 100,000 Baht per fight ($3,300) and he fought as closely as 100 fights throughout his Muay Thai life but he eventually just have a little money left when he was retired and had small business with his family.

Other jobs in Muay Thai
There are also some fighters who still involve in Muay Thai industry after retirement apart from being a coach such as announcer, commentator, second, referee and so on. But these kind of job still very low pay and they just have to struggle to make money for this.

The story behind this is what I have been told is that Muay Thai professional in Thailand is, in fact, about to make money for camps/promoters not fighters. There are more than 50 percent of the money that camps and promoter take out from the money that fighter received for his fight. Sometimes, the money left for him was as too little as lower than 40 per cent. However, this may not apply to a whole case, there are some camps who pay more to its fighters.

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.