I've always assumed that Judo-like throws were excluded from Thailand's Muay Thai due to anti-Japanese sentiment after the WW2 occupation. But here is newsreel footage of a purported "Thai championship" fight in 1959, w/ a Judo-like throw. https://t.co/sXdimqWZ9O pic.twitter.com/1YtqukfXsv

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