MAJOR FIGHTS
Round-by-round analysis of the bouts that shaped modern Lethwei.
Dave Leduc vs Tun Tun Min
The three-bout series that turned Lethwei from a curiosity into an internationally recognised championship sport. A round-by-round account of all three meetings.
Read breakdown →Too Too vs Saw Htoo Aung
The Thingyan Festival main event that defined the sandpit-era peak of Too Too's career. Three rounds of grinding clinch work and a finishing knee that the audience felt before they saw.
Read breakdown →Souris Manfredi vs Mahmoud Sattari
The spinning back elbow that became the women's division's defining knockout. A patient fighter playing a long fight, then a single moment of decisive technique.
Read breakdown →Sasha Moisa vs domestic challenger
A Ukrainian fighter's first Lethwei bout ended in the first round by frontal headbutt. The clip travelled, and the wave of Eastern European challengers that followed traces back to it.
Read breakdown →Cyrus Washington vs Tun Tun Min
Before Leduc, before WLC, an American striker travelled to Yangon three times to fight Tun Tun Min. The 2014 main event is the canonical body-shot finish in modern Lethwei.
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