Tolga Ebren was born on February 21, 2001 in Eindhoven. At the age of six he started Muaythai training with his uncle Duran Ebren, from Muaythai Academy Duran Gym. When he was ten years old, he wanted to quit Muaythai to do something else. He then chose to play football. After two years of the football adventure, Tolga wanted to return to train Muaythai with his uncle and not without merit. He became Dutch champion in ...
History will be made in 2022 in the beautiful city of Yekaterinburg, Russia when for the first time FISU will organise a cluster event for combat sports. 6 combat sports have been selected to be part of this event with boxing, karate, wrestling, wushu, sambo and muaythai. IFMA and muaythai got recognised by FISU in 2015 and 2018 has seen the muayuthai world coming together in Pattaya, Thailand for a successful University Muaythai World Championships. IFMA would ...
Anuwat Kaewsamrit is a man who earned a fierce reputation on the muaythai circuit during his career and picked up many accolades along the way. Aside form being crowned as a WMC world champion, Anuwat is also a Lumpinee and multiple time Rajadamnern Champion. Finishing his career with 152 fights with 108 wins, 61 of those by way of knock out, Anuwat earned himself the name the Iron Hands of Siam. He became the WMC champion beating ...
Rajadamnern Stadium will begin hosting fights this coming Wednesday the 15th July after a 4 month hiatus and have just released the live stream link. Sor Sommai have put together an amazing fight card to welcome back the sport and due to the government regulations on no spectators at sporting events fight fans can watch the show live for free on their computer or mobile phone. The live streaming will be from 19.00 onwards on the ...
More good news from Thailand as the prestigious Rajadamnern Stadium has just confirmed that they will be open from Wednesday July the 15th onwards. All sporting events in Thailand were shut down from mid-march in light of the Covid pandemic but are beginning to reopen under the 'new norm' set of rules stipulated by the Royal Thai Government. The board at Rajadamnern have stated that they will host six shows in July under the new rules ...
Sofia Olofsson has conquered both the amateur and professional muaythai scenes during the last 12 years and has become someone who many consider to be the best female fighter in her weight division. Sofia began training at the age of 18 years, training out of the Odenplan Gym in Stockholm, Sweden where she quickly caught the eye of the coaches as a potential future champion. In 2012 Sofia was put forward for the Swedish team where she ...
Breaking news this week has revealed that French muaythai superstar Jimmy Vienot has signed a 2 year fight deal with Arena Fight. Arena is one of the biggest French fighting sports organisations and always delivers top level fights with the best international elite fighters. After a 4 month hiatus due to Covid 19 the show is planning to come back stronger than ever in the second half of 2020. Russian superstar Dzhabar Askerov has also recently signed ...
Miriam is a name that needs no introduction in the muaythai world and is one of the best fighters to have ever graced American soil. Also known as the Queen of Mean, Miriam had a stunning muaythai career retiring undefeated with 14 professional wins. Miriam has defeated some of the world’s best, Julie Kitchen from England, Chantal Ughi from Italy, Claire Haigh from Luxembourg, Australia’s Angie Parr, and so many more. Miriam competed out ...
Muaythai connects is the IFMA initiative which has been running for the last four months to ensure the IFMA athletes continue to engage in muaythai and practice a healthy lifestyle and stay positive in mind and body. It is also important that we continue to promote cultural understanding, inclusion, non-discrimination, and peace. Some have been breaking record numbers with Ramadan having 1.5 million views, our amazing little Russian warrior girl more than 700,000 views and Maria Valent ...
Sunday the 28th of June will see the return of BOM The Battle of Muaythai in Tokyo, Japan with a stacked line up. Like many promotions and sporting events around the world the show has been on ice for the last 4 months due to the global Covid 19 pandemic. But Bom is back with a vengeance with two amazing headlining fights, one of which will see former-WMC champion Nadaka Eiwasports go head to ...
Nadaka Yoshinari is a fighter that needs no introduction in the muaythai world and dominates both the Japanese and Thai elite circuits, representing Japan at the highest level. At the age of only 19 Nadaka has made a name for himself as a WMC world champion, Rajadamnuen and Lumpinee champion. Representing the EIWA sports gym in Tokyo, Nadaka began competing in amateur bouts when he was only 9 years old and has racked up an impressive ...
Covid-19 forced the world into lockdown, all major sporting events have been cancelled or postponed including the Olympic Games 2020. The IOC “Stay Strong Stay Active Stay Healthy” campaign where close to 5,000 Olympians had engaged reached a remarkable 243000 people across the world. IFMA is proud to be recognised by the IOC and over the last three months the IFMA youth shared their stories and workouts to the IFMA family to an estimated 3 million ...
