What we know today of the origin of Muay Thai is unfortunately quite limited and subject to debate. Much of its recorded history was lost 1767 when the Burmese sacked Ayuthaya, then the capital of Siam (Thailand) and destroyed vast troves of written history and artifact. Scholars have associated much of the early origins of Muay Thai to the Tai tribe migrating south from China in the 8th-10th centuries. The