World Muaythai Council

May 28th, 2012 / Calgary, Canada Promoter Mike Miles hosted the Challenger 5 - NO MERCY event on Friday May 25th at the Bowness Sportsplex in Calgary. The event boasted Team Canada against Team Scotland and Team USA and these bouts were very exciting. The amateur bouts were sanctioned by the Canadian MuayThai Council - Amateur (Alberta) and MuayThai Alberta (MA) in support of International Federation of MuayThai Amatuer (IFMA). The Mike Miles Canadian Challenger Fight Series ...

Europe’s premiere promoter, in conjunction with the WMC and the Swedish Muaythai Federation, sanctioned the first leg of the $300,000 Glory event. Globen Arena was packed to the gills, with many celebrities sitting ringside. The first round saw the best of the best matched against one another: K-Max WMC Champion and WMC Top-ten ranked Giorgio Petrosyan took on Thai Fight winner Fabio Pinca, and Giorgio showed his world class skill, winning in a unanimous decision. Contender ...

Hein Verbruggen, President of SportAccord   Delegates at the Opening Ceremony of 2012 SportAccord Convention began their evening with cocktails and a lavish assortment of delicious Quebecois specialty meats, cheeses, and tables towering with desserts.   As conversation and wine flowed, musicians dressed as chefs wound their way through the crowds, encouraging everyone to follow their melodious meandering to the end of the convention hall, where an enormous wall, in actuality a thick black curtain, suddenly rose up into ...

Slamm, the premier muaythai promoter from Holland, put on another world class event with the best from Holland and Morocco taking on the best from Thailand. Fight no.1 was in the 61kg division between Illias el Hajoui  VS  Pornsane Sitmonchai who both put on a world class performance, but the Dutch fighter took the lead with a points decision against the Thai fighter. Nonsai Sor Sanyakorn, one of the biggest names in this division, was the ...

Yodsenklai the winner of Contender Asia and two time WMC world champion made it for the third time this Saturday against Moravcik in Slovakia. In front of a sold out venue Yodsenklai was determined from the opening bell to bring the belt back to Thailand. Moravcik, one of the biggest names in Muaythai, both in and out of Thailand went out firing from the opening round but got caught with a stunning hand from Yodsenklai, ...

The IFMA booth was honoured to welcome a visit from Joel Bouzou, President of Peace & Sport and his delegation. IFMA, a partner of Peace & Sport has launched the “Sport Is Your Gang” project in cooperation with Peace & Sport and recently celebrated this launch with an event in honour of the project in Tehran, the Peace & Sport through Muaythai President’s Cup. During his visit to the IFMA booth, President Joel Bouzou discussed with IFMA ...

This weekend, the WMC has two world class shows, with Slovakia being the venue for the WMC World title fight, Yodsanklai (THA) VS Moravcik (SVK). The Globen Arena in Sweden will also be packed, for the $300,000 Glory event. Stay tuned for all events on the WMC website, the world governing body for the sport of Muaythai: www.wmcmuaythai.org