Muay Thai is a martial art that focuses on powerful strikes, close-quarters combat (also called clinch work), and conditioning. A martial art is a system of combat that comes from a specific culture.

Muay Thai is the national sport of Thailand, with a 700-year-old history, and as with most sports, a yin and yang. Known as the "science of eight limbs," muay Thai allows striking by fists, elbows, ...

The beads of perspiration glinting under the lights of the boxing stadium threatened to sting his eyes, but an expressionless Sayyid Al-Tahneem kept focus on his Thai opponent, whom he had just ...