SAW BA OO
bantamweight, traditional
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Biography
Diminutive Karen sandpit veteran whose elbows were feared across Kayin State's village fighting circuits. Competed in an era when bantamweights rarely headlined, yet still drew crowds with his vicious cutting elbows. Retired with significant scar tissue but an unmatched reputation among traditional lighter-weight fighters.
Fighting style
Signature technique
→ Horizontal elbow off the clinch entry
Titles & honours
- Kayin State Bantamweight Sandpit Champion
- Multi-region sandpit champion
Reading this record
The 26–9–8 line recorded for Saw Ba Oo is a career-stage approximation rather than a sanctioning-body total. Traditional-era bouts were fought on festival and sandpit cards that kept no systematic records, so for fighters of this generation the real number of contests is very likely higher than any surviving count.
42% of those wins came inside the distance, which ranks 27th of the 29 profiled fighters with a documented record. That points to a fighter who won through accumulation and control rather than one-shot power, a profile well suited to a format where surviving deep rounds is itself a result.
Saw Ba Oo is one of 3 fighters profiled at bantamweight, and fights orthodox, as 28 of the 32 profiled fighters do.
Saw Ba Oo is no longer competing, so the record above stands as documented.