Movies

• In 2007, Ryan McCarthy and Jake Tyler from the movie, Never Back Down practice Mixed Martial Arts including Muay Thai.
• In 2004, Muay Thai boxer Asanee Suwan was named best actor at the Thailand National Film Association Awards for his portrayal of Parinya Charoenphol in Beautiful Boxer. The movie tells the true-life story of a man who masters Muay Thai in order to realize his dream of becoming a woman.
• The 1971 Shaw Brothers Studio film, Duel of Fists, is set in Bangkok Lumpinee Boxing Stadium and stars Ti Lung as a Muay Thai boxer who is the long-lost brother of a Hong Kong martial artist, portrayed by David Chiang.
• In The Man With The Golden Gun, James Bond meets Scaramanga at a Thai Boxing bout.
• Recently the films Ong-Bak, The Protector and Born to Fight helped to popularize Muay Thai. Ong-Bak demonstrates some techniques of Muay Boran and Tom-Yum-Goong illustrates the fighting style of the Thai Royal Bodyguards (Jaturongkabaht, circa 1400-1700s) - Muay Koshasan (Elephant Boxing style). Muay Koshasan is also known as Muay Chang Tumlai Roang - (Smashing Elephant Boxing style) in that it emphasizes a lot of throwing, crushing, and breaking of joints and limbs.
• The film Chok Dee starring Dida Diafat who plays himself in this semi-fictional story of his life. The film covers a lot of the training filmed in the Muay Thai camps of Bangkok.
• The film Kickboxer starring Jean Claude van Damme is about a young fighter who learns Muay Thai to avenge his brother, who was paralyzed by the current champion/thug.
• The documentary feature film Fight or Flight starring Peter J McCarthy and also Andy Tompson of Lanna Muay Thai, based on an epic journey into thailands ring fighting circuit. Premiered in Aucklands Docnz film festival.

Television

• The Contender Asia is a 15 episode reality show featuring 16 Muay Thai fighters from around the world.
• The History channel took a deep look into the history and fighting techniques in Muay Thai on their show Human Weapon.
• True Life: I am a Muay Fighter follows two American boxers, Kit and Ben, as they travel overseas to make their mark in the brutal world of Muay Thai fighting, Thailand national sport, which combines kicking, punching and wrestling with few restrictions. Kit and Ben are each scheduled to compete in bare-knuckle fights that will be broadcast live on television all across Thailand.
• Power Rangers: Jungle Fury depicts the purple ranger as a Muay Thai-style warrior. The ranger sports the prajed, dual elbow bands worn by Thai fighters; and mainly uses elbow and knee attacks, often performing Ongbak-style flying knee strikes.

Video games

• In Capcom Street Fighter video game series, the character Sagat is a Muay Thai master and a national hero in Thailand. His student Adon is also a practitioner.
• In SNK World Heroes 2, the character Shura/Naikanom Tom is based on the legendary Muay Thai hero, Nai Khanom Tom.
• In the Dead Or Alive video game series, the fighter Zack is a self-taught Muay Thai master.
• In "Tekken 5", the character Bruce is a Kickboxing master.
• In "True Crime: NYC" it is possible to learn Muay Thai. The game shows a kick strike, an elbow strike, a clinch grapple, and a flying knee attack as a special move.
• In the Mortal Kombat series, the character of Jax fights using Muay Thai.
• In SNK King of Fighters and Fatal Fury series, Joe Higashi is a Muay Thai champion.
• In the Virtua Fighter video game series, the character Brad Burns is an undefeated Muay Thai champion from Italy.
• In the squaresoft video game Ehrgeiz, the character Prince Doza is a Muay Thai practitioner who won many battles.
• Capoeira Fighter III there is a lady Muay Thai fighter called Chompoo
• Clover Studio God Hand features an enemy called Tiger Joe who fights predominantly using Muay Thai style.
• In Data East Fighter History, the character named Samchay Tomyamgun utilizes Muay Thai as his fighting style.

Anime and Manga

• In Anime and Manga series Kenichi: The Strongest Disciple a character named Apachai Hopachai is a Muay Thai Master.
• K.O.Sen is a Manga about a out of control student Sen Tobishima, being sent to a Muay Thai/Japanese Kickboxing gym by his mother to straighten him out, same as his father did years ago.