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No, the organization doesn't really exist anymore. There's a new female-oriented promotion that is run by the Thai Fight people, but they've only had one event on the Queen's Birthday this year, up in the North of Thailand. 

 

That's too bad. I definitely had some issues with regard to how they thought female fighters should present themselves but it was great to see a promotion focusing on women and hosting all female cards.

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That's too bad. I definitely had some issues with regard to how they thought female fighters should present themselves but it was great to see a promotion focusing on women and hosting all female cards.

I like that they featured so many women from so many different places, but I wish there'd been more Thai women throughout the process. They brought in more the second time around and at different weights, which was cool.

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I like that they featured so many women from so many different places, but I wish there'd been more Thai women throughout the process. They brought in more the second time around and at different weights, which was cool.

 

Do you know who the artist for the soundtrack is? I really like the music.

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Do you know who the artist for the soundtrack is? I really like the music.

I somewhat recognize the voice but not enough to be able to help. Usually they use Carabao for everything. We call him "Thai Willie Nelson" but he's a bit more like Springsteen in terms of his working-class hero demographic.

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That's too bad about Muay Thai Angels. The beauty-focused aspect was definitely quirky but they still put on a great show.

The new promotions that are taking its place (as in, all-female and big budget cards) are keeping with the beauty aspect. On the King's Birthday this year there was lots of makeup and two of the highlight fights were made of A) a woman who is a model and posed for Thai Playboy (there's no nudity in Thai Playboy), she has now had 2 fights; and B) an airline stewardess (the guidelines for Thai air hostesses are pretty similar to pageantry) whose number of fights I have no clue of. They both fought with determination, although the fights were messy. But selling the fights through "sexy" and "pretty" and all that was the main goal.

Thanks to Emma for finding these videos in the first place.

Here's the Air Hostess, Porsche (red): 

And the model, Puifai (red): 

Neither of the opponents for the "pretty" fights (in Thai they call models and women whose job it is to be pretty, "Pretties") look very experienced, which is reasonable because neither are the "pretties," but the caliber of fights is certainly not in line with what World Muay Thai Angels was trying to accomplish.

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