Every fighter knows about cuts, broken noses and knockouts. Those are the injuries you see. The ones that matter most are the ones you don't: the sparring hits nobody counts, the shins and knees that slowly give out, the brain changes that show up years after the last fight.
In Thailand, children start fighting at eight. A Bangkok hospital study of 335 child boxers found an average IQ gap of about 10 points compared to non-boxers. In the US, a long-running study of professional fighters links more fights to smaller brain volume and slower thinking.
This isn't an argument against Muay Thai. It's a look at the bill before you sign it.
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