Muay Thai Fighter

Paul Garrigan is not a typical fighter. As a child he dreamt of  imitating his hero Bruce Lee, he even practiced Kung Fu for a  number of years, but he never got past his fear of being hit in the  face. By the time he reached his twenties the only fighting he was  doing involved a battle with alcoholism. Garrigan turned from a  ten stone weakling in his teens to an overweight alcoholic in his  thirties, but the desire to practice a martial art never left him. He  ended up living in Thailand where the fiercest of all martial arts is  practiced – Muay Thai. Eventually he managed to find his way out  of addiction and even though he was now in his forties he decided  to pursue his martial art dreams.


In  Muay Thai Fighter  we get to see what happens when a middle-aged  ex-drunk decides to learn the toughest fighting art in the world.  Garrigan wasn’t expecting it to be easy, but could never have  anticipated how demanding the training was going to be. It  brought him to levels of physical and mental pain that he never  guessed existed. A famous saying in martial arts is that the only  person you are really fighting is the person you were yesterday.  This is the inspiring tale of how we can all still achieve our dreams  no matter how much we have messed up in life.