Commitment to sport functions as a status marker that supersedes race within fighting gyms.

Evidence

Thus, people do not imagine themselves as innately different within the sphere of the gym, rather, they see each other as intimately connected through the corporeal mechanisms of training alongside one another in pursuit of their fighting goals. … What is most important then, is one’s commitment to the sport, which resulted in my respondents situating one another as the same, as fighters, a category that superseded ascriptive traits (see Singh 2022); everyone was believed to have paid their dues on the gym floor, earning respect and recognition from others in the process. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 55

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the category-superseding move the reader knows from studies of other embodied meritocracies — e.g., ballet or military training replacing ascriptive identity with craft identity. — connects to: Muay Thai gyms’ partner-based training structure fosters mutualistic bonds that override ascriptive difference. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 55; Physical training to fight can forge bonds that resist racial thinking — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 17
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 55

Related

• Muay Thai gyms’ partner-based training structure fosters mutualistic bonds that override ascriptive difference. (similarity 0.85)
• Physical training to fight can forge bonds that resist racial thinking (similarity 0.85)
• Shared combat training can erase racial and gendered hierarchies through bodily friendship. (similarity 0.84)
• Cross-ethnic friendships formed during fight training persist beyond the gym into fighters’ daily lives (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Physical training to fight can forge bonds that resist racial thinking #corroborates (0.85) — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 17