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Thailand – National Sport

Thailand’s National Sport is Muay Thai.  It is also referred to as Thai Boxing.  In Muay Thai, Clinching is allowed, but only if the opponents are facing each other and one of them are “fighting” in the clinch.  Many of us usually call it hugging, but the technical name is clinching.

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