Curiosity (Video): Samart Payakaroon highlights problems of Muay Thai in Bangkok

Samart Payakaroon, in this interview (at the end of the article), highlights the problems of Muay Thai in Bangkok, concentrating on the fact that the 4 or 5 owners of the big gyms and gamblers, influence too much the referee’s judgments and this regards also the promoters who are also gamblers themselves.
He highlights how the small camps are in big crisis and can’t make their athletes win against opponents of the big camps and so are forced to sell them to them.
He contests the new law, that was born to protect all Nak Muays and gives the possibility to a fighter to ask a sports authority to change camp. The law looked right, but then damages the small camps and with it the future of Muay Thai in Thailand.
Samart pushes also in a very hard statement: Foreigners will be the future of Muay Thai (this time he was so educated to don’t call them “farangs”).

This messages, critics also his Thai compatriots, who are always more careless of the art of Muay Thai and are losing that big respect for this art and Thai tradition.

We asked Roberto Gallo Cassarino what he thinks about it:<"Certainly this is a statement that expresses a big discomfort who many of us have when we see verdicts that are clearly lead by promoters and gamblers, or when our athletes merit don’t have the same possibilities of the big camps, even though they earned them. When Arjan Samart talks about foreign countries, he sees them too well. In fact the cited foreign countries have problems, even if different ones, but they have them. Thailand with its strengths and weaknesses, still offer the best opportunities for those who want to practice the “real” Muay Thai. Certainly as stated by Arjan Samart, if there it would have been a committee that controls and oversees the judges actions, independently from: gamblers, the big camps bosses and promoters, it would be a dream! If in this committee could enter experts of different countries, well then Muay Thai could become a WORLDWIDE sport and the rules of Bangkok could be recognized and adopted INTERNATIONALLY”>

Chok Dee