Archived Gila Muay Thai - April, 1976 | Muay Thai Library (2 magazine fragements, jpegs)

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

These portions seem to be from two different issues of Gila Muay Thai in April of 1976. They were folded together with a third magazine, so the dates were not clear and it took some work to recognize the fragments (thank you Lev for helping). Putting them both here together. Of note, in them are the April 1976 Lumpinee rankings.

quality jpegs of the edition from Sylvie's beginning collection, if anyone can translate (machine or otherwise - you can upload jpegs to Google translate and it will give you English text translation), comments welcome on content. Insight into the era. You can follow this sub-forum and get email alerts for any new postings. If you share images from these captures please credit the Muay Thai Library Preserve The Legacy project and this forum. Any support for the project by subscription is seriously appreciated.

 

Gila Muay Thai Early April 1976 (partial)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gila Muay Thai Later April 1976 (partial)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

And Sagat vs Jintadet on May 6 1976 (credit Lev)

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

Two caps show that in 1976 Rajadamnern was surging in popularity, and Lumpinee struggling. This post mentions that Lumpinee's prospects should be looking better now that the young promoter SongChai has regularly started promoting there. SongChai would of course end up ushering in the great Golden Age of Muay Thai principally centered around his promotions at Lumpinee in the 1980s and 1990s.

thank you to Lev for the call out

machine translate:

"Chapter 2: “The Rise of Ratchadamnoen”

Yes... Now that we've mentioned Lumpini Stadium, we should also talk about Rajadamnern Stadium, especially the "promoters" of Rajadamnern, who were strong and generated the highest income for the stadium in 1975, breaking records from the past to the present.

The promoters of Rajadamnern were different from those of Lumpinee. During the time that "Sia Saelee" began to become famous in this industry as an assistant promoter of the Blue Corner fights, almost every promoter of the stadium surrendered under his "paws" because he had many boxers under his control. He invested his money to bring many boxers under his control. Even Napha Nakpathom, the great man of "Lord of the East" at present, had to submit and follow him like he was a subordinate!

This is because Sia is a “connector” between the promoters of Rajadamnern Stadium, since many people depend on him for cooperation in organizing boxing matches. Sia’s name is therefore heard throughout the industry, generating a lot of income for Rajadamnern Stadium last year.

Rajadamnern Stadium is like a mother stadium because promoters try to find fresh boxers to join the program, trying to find boxers with potential to join (read on page 20)"

"• Before leaving, Colonel Uthai predicted that the Lumpini stage was going to start to get better, and it seems to be true because now they have hired a skilled young man, Songchai Ratanasuban, as the new promoter.... As for the secret behind “Ko Hong” Phong Thawornwiwatbut being dragged into refusing to be the Lumpini promoter, Colonel Uthai knows who it is...."