Another cheap visual pun, this time based on an experience I once had in the break room at a former job many years back. Some of my coworkers were discussing Muay Thai fighting, and I walked in halfway during the conversation; I heard “Thai fighter”, and mistook it as “TIE Fighter” — and the rest is history.
The boxing/wrestling ring used in this scene is borrowed from my custom WWE Ultimate Warrior setup from February 2016. The crowd contains whichever various minifigs I had assembled at the time, mainly the Simpsons figures, with some of the members of The Who and the Ramones.