Women's Lethwei inside the World Lethwei Championship has a much shorter and more specific history than it is sometimes given credit for. In 2018, Cambodia's Nou Srey Pov became the first female winner in World Lethwei Championship competition, defeating Shwe Sin Min and Shwe Nadi. In 2019, WLC announced it would commit to the female Lethwei division with a dedicated female match at every event.
The first fight under that commitment came at WLC 9: King of Nine Limbs, 2 August 2019 in Mandalay, when France's Souris Manfredi faced Eh Yanut of Cambodia. Manfredi won a unanimous decision over three rounds to become the first winner of the newly created women's division. She fought again at WLC 11: Battlebones, 31 January 2020 in Yangon, stopping Tran Thi Lua of Vietnam by knockout in round 2.
Manfredi's title-winning bout came at WLC 12: Hideout Battle, 28 August 2020, where she defeated Maisha Katz by TKO (retirement) in round 4 to become the WLC's first — and, as it turned out, only — Women's Bantamweight Champion. It was the only women's world title the promotion ever created. Her reign lasted 157 days and was never defended; WLC ran its last event, WLC 14, the following month, and the promotion did not continue after 2020.
That is the entire documented WLC women's title history: one division, one champion, three fights. After WLC stopped running events, Manfredi moved into bareknuckle boxing. She challenged for the inaugural BKFC Thailand Women's Strawweight Championship on 7 May 2022 in Pattaya and lost by split decision to Fani Peloumpi — a different discipline, a different weight class, and a loss, not an extension of her WLC reign.
The honest point here is about scale, not mythology. Women's Lethwei at the WLC level was real, was sanctioned, and produced a genuine champion — but it amounted to three fights across two years, inside a promotion that itself stopped operating within a month of crowning her. Any account describing an ongoing, multi-division, multi-champion women's scene at the WLC is describing something the record does not support.