OFTEN – particularly in developing countries – people who fight do so because they have little other option.
Chisakan Ariphipat, though, had more options than most – all more lucrative than boxing (so far, anyway). She was raised firmly middle class in Thailand, a country where a pronounced class divide ensures a comfortable existence for those born on the more fortunate side of it, and where punching for pay is very much a working class pursuit.
Over the course of two decades, her parents had built up the P. Guest House and Country Resort, a lakeside hotel and restaurant in Sangkhla Buri, a verdant idyll in Thailand’s picturesque west. It was successful, and it paid for Chisakan to attend private schools, to study abroad, to achieve
