Since their triumphant campaign in the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, Filipino muay thai fighters have not returned to full-scale combat in the international scene.
Their pent-up energy will be finally released when Team Bagsik—as what the national muay team is also called—goes to battle in the International Federation of Muaythai Associations (IFMA) World Championships in Phuket, Thailand, two months from now.
“We plan to send a full team. This is the first time that we will participate in a full-contact competition since the SEA Games in 2019,’’ said Muaythai Association of the Philippines (MAP) secretary general Pearl Managuelod.
To be able to fully prepare for the World Championship, the pool from which members of Team Bagsik will come from got clearance from the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to set up a bubble-type…
