World Muaythai Council

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

This weekend, May 26th, Sweden’s Globen Arena will host so many fantastic fights in the Glory Fight series. One of the highlights will be the squaring off of two WMC King’s Cup winners and former World Champions: Thailand’s Kem Sitsongpeenong battling Brasil’s Cosmo Alexandre…only one will win the glory.

It was six months in planning, in order to get some of Europe’s best female fighters into one Fight Night, organised by Chitalada, sanctioned by the Finnish Muaythai Association and WMC, and the amateur fights sanctioned by IFMA. For the female WMC Scandinavian title, two of Scandinavia’s best, Anna Willberg from Finland and Lina Länsberg from Sweden, gave a fantastic display of Muaythai, with Lina taking the victory in a split point decision. There were two female ...

What a great couple of months for Muaythai, with so many events around the world. Let’s start at the top: Australia had two fantastic female events, with Caley Reece defending her World title, and Kate Heuston winning the Intercontinental title. USA: Two IFMA World Champions met in San Francisco for a much anticipated fight, Miriam Nakamoto against Sandra Bastian, WMC Light Weight Female World Champion. On the same card, Cyrus Washington faced down Ky Hollenback to ...

The WMC Female World title was a much anticipated fight between Valentina Shevchenko, 4 x IFMA World Champion and Sport Accord Champion from Peru, taking on. Valentina showed once again why she is definitely one of the best female fighters in the world, winning in a point decision. One of the biggest fight nights took place in one of Europe’s Muaythai power nations, when Sweden’s Alex Harris took on France’s own Aïello Batonon for the WMC ...

22nd of April saw the exciting battle for the WMC Intercontinental 57kg Title between Kate Heuston (WA Thai Boxing Centre) v Alexis Rufus (England). This bout was fought hard over all 5 rounds. With the crowd cheering for the girls all the way through the bout. Alexis constantly pushing forward with punching and kick combos. Kate was scoring well with kicks to Alexis’s lead leg and landing solid punches. Throughout the bout Kate dominated in the ...