SHWE YAR MAN
"The Golden Warrior" — openweight, traditional
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Biography
A folk hero of traditional sandpit Lethwei whose openweight bouts drew massive crowds across central Myanmar. Fought anyone regardless of size and was famous for his devastating headbutt combinations. His career predates modern record-keeping, so his win total is likely even higher than documented.
Fighting style
Signature technique
→ Leaping headbutt into uppercut
Titles & honours
- Sandpit Openweight Champion (multiple regions)
- Bago Region Golden Belt
Reading this record
The 35–7–14 line recorded for Shwe Yar Man 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.
63% of those wins came inside the distance, which ranks 5th of the 29 profiled fighters with a documented record. That sits in the middle band of the roster — a fighter who finishes when the opening appears but is equally accustomed to going the full distance.
Shwe Yar Man is one of 3 fighters profiled at openweight, and fights orthodox, as 28 of the 32 profiled fighters do.
Shwe Yar Man is no longer competing, so the record above stands as documented.