The arrival of the boxing ring is perhaps one of the greatest advances ever made to the world of Muay-Thai or Thai-Boxing. Ensuring the safety of the fighters and giving them priority and main protagonists in the event.

In 1914, Thai-Boxing conquered Europe by storm, was the first time you could enjoy a Thai fighter there and caused enormous excitement among the audience, so Thai fever spread rapidly across the seas. Art, the national sport had become a hugely successful event as work began to build the biggest and best stadium dedicated to Muay-Thai hitherto built. And in 1921, opened the first stage with the first ring “full-size” for the Thai-Boxing … the Sanam Muay Suan Kularb, and there came by thousands to enjoy the fighting and the art of Muay-Thai.

Soon to be accepted the standards of traditional boxing on the concept of the ring, so they built stadiums “European format.” After that, they quickly introduced the use of gloves … the first to use in a sporting event (in 1927) were two wrestlers known then: Kau Nai Nai Muangyos and Sirisek Chok Chai, both fought bravely in the stadium Sanam Muay Ta Chang.

In 1929, the most revolutionary and world-famous stadium opened in Lumpini Park, opened the Lumpini Stadium, a place of worship and veneration for all tha i. It was conceived as a world-class stadium to host the best fights of the now famous art of Muay-Thai.

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Capoeira is one of Brazil’s most important cultural expressions.
The name “capoeira” is of indigenous origin, and means “a clearing amid the jungle”, or “a clearing where there used to be a jungle”; in Brazilian northeast, many dishes are prepared with “galinha de capoeira”, or “capoeira chicken”, which grows in the capoeiras, as opposed to chickens raised in captive conditions.

Some careless definitions state that the “game of capoeira” (“jogo de capoeira”) is a sport practiced at academies or in the streets, with no set rules but characteristically ordered nevertheless, with its own music, for which the instrument that sets the pace at practice bouts is the berimbau, or musical bow.

This definition, however, considers capoeira only by sporting aspects, to the detriment of the ways all its other features blend in with Brazilian society. Capoeira’s mythical and religious aspects, for instance, are a part of that which is considered “sacred” in Brazil, something that permeates all beliefs, lifestyles, dreams and aspirations in our society.

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, one of the most famous Brazilian sociologists, referredt to these aspects as religious feeling, both intimate and close to the heart, accepting of spiritual contributions from many sources, and a paradigm of the courteous nature with which that writer credits the Brazilian people.
Thus, the magic that permeates the world of capoeira gives form to a vast spectrum of meaning through which this expression of Afro- Brazilian culture maintains ties with all that is sacred, and with several of the expressions and traditions of Brazil’s popular culture.

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