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Shortly before the Cohen bout, Bangkok fight fans took in some home-style boxing in Rajadamnern Stadium, and found it more to their taste. Before a typical bout a pair of lithe welterweights, Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth and Kaeh Chomsrimesk, bowed gracefully to the crowd, knelt on the canvas for prayers to Buddha, and warmed up with a graceful, slow-motion dance. Then the gong sounded for the first round, an energetic four-piece band swung into a tune that sounded like an old-fashioned American carnival hootchy-kootchy, and the fighters started dancing in earnest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...Sriswasdi charged out of his corner, butted Kaeh in the chest, kicked him in the thigh, and clipped him on the back of the neck with a wicked elbow. By the middle of the second round, both fighters were smeared with blood. The music rose to a frenzied tattoo. With every blow, the 8,000 Thais in the stadium chanted for more blood. Sriswasdi jerked Kaeh's head down and kneed him viciously under the chin, blocked a feeble counterpunch, spun his man around and jabbed at his ribs with both elbows. Dazed, his opponent backed away. Sriswasdi took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Full of All Actions. Since weekly boxing is one of Bangkok's biggest tourist attractions, the fight programs have helpful and somewhat startling translations for English-speaking visitors. After Welterweight Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth won his $50 purse, the traveling sportsman could have got a bet down in the next event on another "youngster full of all actions with never retreat, who loves the give and take method to provide sensation for fans to their hearts' content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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