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Throwback to the Challenger Series

July 21st, 2020

The Challenger Muaythai Series was a highly successful reality TV series broadcast on AXN and sanctioned by the WMC. The show was broadcast every Thursday and was watched by millions of viewers across the globe. The show followed the lives of 16 contestants as they took part in group challenges with elimination fights each week and were subject to rigorous training dished out by trainers Hanarong and Nugget Mcnaught. 16 middleweight fighters had the chance to win ...

Myriame vs Funda World Title Fight Confirmed

July 17th, 2020

Some positive news was revealed this week as the world title fight between Myriame Djedidi from France and Funda Alkayis from Turkey has been reconfirmed. The date was originally set for April but due to Covid 19 was put on ice. September the 26th has now been confirmed with the French Sport Authorities Myriame is the current WMC intercontinental and 2 time WMC European champion as well as an IFMA gold medalist. She became the Intercontinental champion following ...

Tolga Ebren, fought like a lion …

July 16th, 2020

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 ...

Muaythai Included in FISU University Combat Championships

July 15th, 2020

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: The Iron Hands of Siam

July 13th, 2020

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 Free Live Stream Link

July 10th, 2020

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 ...

Rajadamnern Stadium to Reopen Next Week

July 8th, 2020

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: The Undisputed Champion

July 3rd, 2020

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 ...

Jimmy Vienot Signs Contract with Arena fight

July 2nd, 2020

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 ...

The WMC Honours Miriam Nakamoto

June 30th, 2020

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 ...

IFMA Athletes Break Records

June 29th, 2020

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 ...

The Battle of BOM Returns

June 26th, 2020

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 ...

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