18. Joseph Gen Combat Mechanism PTY. LTD.: Muay Thai







Various forms & techniques in 
Muay Thai Kickboxing










































































Muay Thai (Thai: มวยไทย, RTGS: Muai Thai, IPA: [mūɛj tʰāj]) is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Burma and muay Lao from Laos. Descended from muay boran, muay thai is Thailand's national sport.[1][2][3][4]
The word muay derives from the Sanskrit mavya which means "to bind together". Muay thai is referred to as the "Art of Eight Limbs" or the "Science of Eight Limbs" because it makes use of punches, kicks, elbows and knee strikes, thus using eight "points of contact", as opposed to "two points" (fists) in boxing and "four points" (hands and feet) used in other more regulated combat sports, such as kickboxing, boxing, and savate.[5] A practitioner of muay thai is known as a nak muay. Western practitioners are sometimes called nak muay farang, meaning "foreign boxer."[6]

Contents

 [hide] 

[edit] History

 This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2011)

[edit] Origins

Further information: Indochinese kickboxing and Muay boran

Praying before the match.

Muay Thai championship boxing match in Sterling, VA
Various forms of kickboxing have long been practiced throughout Southeast Asia. Based on Chinese and Indian martial arts,[7] practitioners claim that these systems can be traced back to a thousand years.
Muay thai evolved from the older muay boran (ancient boxing), an unarmed combat method which would have been used by Siamese soldiers after losing their weapons in battle. Some believe that the ancient Siamese military created muay boran from the weapon-based art, krabi krabong but others contend that both systems were developed at the same time.[8] Krabi krabong nevertheless was an important influence on muay thai as seen in the movements in the wai khru.
Muay boran, and therefore muay Thai, was originally called dhoi muay or simply muay. As well as being a practical fighting technique for use in actual warfare, muay became a sport in which the opponents fought in front of spectators who went to watch for entertainment. These muay contests gradually became an integral part of local festivals and celebrations, especially those held at temples. Eventually, the previously bare-fisted fighters started wearing lengths of hemp rope around their hands and forearms. This type of match was called muay khat chueak (มวยคาดเชือก).

[edit] 19th century

The ascension of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) to the throne in 1868 ushered in a golden age not only for muay but for the whole country of Thailand. Muay progressed greatly during the reign of Rama V as a direct result of the king's personal interest in the art. The country was at peace and muay functioned as a means of physical exercise, self-defense, recreation, and personal advancement.[citation needed]
Masters of the art began teaching muay in training camps where students were provided with food and shelter. Trainees would be treated as one family and it was customary for students to adopt the camp's name as their own surname. Scouts would be sent by the royal family to organize matches between different camps.[citation needed] :)

[edit] Modernization

King Rama VII (r. 1925-1935) pushed for codified rules for muay, and they were put into place. Thailand's first boxing ring was built in 1921 at Suan Kularp. Referees were introduced and rounds were now timed by kick. Fighters at the Lumpinee Kickboxing Stadium began wearing modern gloves during training and in boxing matches against foreigners. Rope-binding was still used in fights between Thais but after the occurrence of a death in the ring, it was decided that fighters should wear gloves and cotton coverlets over the feet and ankles. It was also around this time that the term muay thai became commonly used while the older form of the style came to be known as muay boran, which is now performed primarily as an exhibition art form.
With the success of muay thai in the mixed martial arts, it has become the de facto style of choice for competitive stand-up fighters. As a result, western practitioners have incorporated much more powerful hand striking techniques from boxing although some Thai purists accuse them of diluting the art.[citation needed]

[edit] BuRaq SaLosa

The most popular folklore regarding muay boran is that of Nai Khanomtom.
At the time of the fall of the ancient Siam capital of Ayutthaya in 1767, the invading Burmese troops rounded up thousands of Thais and took them to Burma as prisoners. Among them were a large number of Thai kickboxers, who were taken to the city of Ava.
In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the Burmese King Hsinbyushin (known in Thai as "King Mangra") decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics. The festivities included many forms of entertainment, such as the costume plays called likay, comedies and farces, and sword-fighting matches. At one point, King Hsinbyushin wanted to see how muay boran would compare to the Burmese art lethwei. Nai Khanomtom was selected to fight against the Burmese champion. The boxing ring was set up in front of the throne and Nai Khanomtom did a traditional Wai Kru pre-fight dance, to pay his respects to his teachers and ancestors, as well as the spectators, dancing around his opponent. This amazed and perplexed the Burmese people, who thought it was black magic. When the fight began, Nai Khanomtom charged out, using punches, kicks, elbows, and knees to pummel his opponent until he collapsed.
However the Burmese referee said the Burmese champion was too distracted by the dance, and declared the knockout invalid. The King then asked if Nai Khanomtom would fight nine other Burmese champions to prove himself. He agreed and fought them all, one after the other with no rest periods in between. His last opponent was a great kickboxing teacher from Rakhine. Nai Khanomtom mangled him by his kicks and no one else dared to challenge him.
King Mangra was so impressed that he allegedly remarked, "Every part of the Thai is blessed with venom. Even with his bare hands, he can fell nine or ten opponents. But his Lord was incompetent and lost the country to the enemy. If he would have been any good, there was no way the City of Ayutthaya would ever have fallen."[citation needed]
King Mangra granted Nai Khanomtom freedom along with either riches or two beautiful Burmese wives. Nai Khanomtom chose the wives as he said that money was easier to find. He then departed with his wives for Siam. Other variations of this story had him also winning the release of his fellow Thai prisoners. His feat is celebrated every March 17 as Boxer's Day or National Muay Boran Day in his honor and that of muay boran's.
Today, some have wrongly attributed the legend of Nai Khanomtom to King Naresuan, who spent his youth as a royal hostage in Burma while Ayutthaya was a Burmese vassal. However, Nai Khanomtom and King Naresuan were almost two centuries apart.

[edit] Technique


Muay Thai match in Bangkok, Thailand.
Formal muay thai techniques are divided into two groups: mae mai or major techniques and luk mai or minor techniques. Muay thai is often a fighting art of attrition, where opponents exchange blows with one another. This is certainly the case with traditional stylists in Thailand, but is a less popular form of fighting in the contemporary world fighting circuit where the Thai style of exchanging blow for blow is no longer favorable. Almost all techniques in muay thai use the entire body movement, rotating the hip with each kick, punch, elbow and block.

[edit] Punching (Chok)

English Thai Romanization IPA Jab
Cross หมัดตรง Mat trong [màt troŋ]
Hook หมัดเหวี่ยงสั้น Mat wiang san [màt wìəŋ sân]
Swing หมัดเหวี่ยงยาว Mat wiang yao [màt wìəŋ jaːw]
Spinning Backfist หมัดเหวี่ยงกลับ Mat wiang klap [màt wìəŋ klàp]
Uppercut หมัดเสย/หมัดสอยดาว Mat soei/Mat soi dao [màt sɤ̌j], [màt sɔ̌j daːw]
Cobra punch* กระโดดชก Kradot chok [kradòːt tɕʰók]
The punch techniques in muay thai were originally quite limited being crosses and a long (or lazy) circular strike made with a straight (but not locked) arm and landing with the heel of the palm. Cross-fertilization with Western boxing and western martial arts mean the full range of western boxing punches are now used: lead jab, straight/cross, hook, uppercut, shovel and corkscrew punches and overhands as well as hammer fists and back fists.
As a tactic, body punching is used less in muay thai than most other striking combat sports to avoid exposing the attacker's head to counter strikes from knees or elbows. To utilize the range of targeting points, in keeping with the center line theory, the fighter can use either the Western or Thai stance which allows for either long range or short range attacks to be undertaken effectively without compromising guard.

[edit] Elbow (Ti sok)

The elbow can be used in several ways as a striking weapon: horizontal, diagonal-upwards, diagonal-downwards, uppercut, downward, backward-spinning and flying. From the side it can be used as either a finishing move or as a way to cut the opponent's eyebrow so that blood might block his vision. The diagonal elbows are faster than the other forms, but are less powerful.
English Thai Romanization IPA
Elbow Slash ศอกตี Sok ti [sɔ̀ːk tiː]
Horizontal Elbow ศอกตัด Sok tat [sɔ̀ːk tàt]
Uppercut Elbow ศอกงัด Sok ngat [sɔ̀ːk ŋát]
Forward Elbow Thrust ศอกพุ่ง Sok phung [sɔ̀ːk pʰûŋ]
Reverse Horizontal Elbow ศอกเหวี่ยงกลับ Sok wiang klap [sɔ̀ːk wìəŋ klàp]
Spinning Elbow ศอกกลับ Sok klap [sɔ̀ːk klàp]
Elbow Chop ศอกสับ Sok sap [sɔ̀ːk sàp]
Double Elbow Chop ศอกกลับคู่ Sok klap khu [sɔ̀ːk klàp kʰûː]
Mid-Air Elbow Strike กระโดดศอก Kradot sok [kradòːt sɔ̀ːk]
There is also a distinct difference between a single elbow and a follow-up elbow. The single elbow is an elbow move independent from any other move, whereas a follow-up elbow is the second strike from the same arm, being a hook or straight punch first with an elbow follow-up. Such elbows, and most other elbow strikes, are used when the distance between fighters becomes too small and there is too little space to throw a hook at the opponent's head. Elbows can also be utilized to great effect as blocks or defenses against, for example, spring knees, side body knees, body kicks or punches.

[edit] Kicking (Te)


Muay Thai boxer delivering a kick
English Thai Romanization IPA
Straight Kick เตะตรง Te trong [tèʔ troŋ]
Roundhouse Kick เตะตัด Te tat [tèʔ tàt]
Diagonal Kick เตะเฉียง Te chiang [tèʔ tɕʰǐəŋ]
Half-Shin, Half-Knee Kick เตะ ครึ่งแข้ง ครึ่งขา Te khrueng khaeng khrueng khao [tèʔ kʰrɯ̂ŋ kʰɛ̂ŋ kʰrɯ̂ŋ kʰàw]
Spinning Heel Kick เตะกลับหลัง Te klap lang [tèʔ klàp lǎŋ]
Down Roundhouse Kick เตะกด Te kot [tèʔ kòt]
Axe Heel Kick เตะเข่า Te khao [tèʔ kʰàw]
Jump Kick กระโดดเตะ Kradot te [kradòːt tèʔ]
Step-Up Kick เขยิบเตะ Khayoep te [kʰa.jɤ̀p tèʔ]
The two most common kicks in muay thai are known as the thip (literally "foot jab") and the te chiang (kicking upwards in the shape of a triangle cutting under the arm and ribs) or roundhouse kick. The muay thai roundhouse kick uses a rotational movement of the entire body and has been widely adopted by practitioners of other combat sports. It is superficially similar to a karate roundhouse kick, but includes the rotation of the standing leg, like in Kyukushin, Goju, Kojosho and Kenpo, it is done from a circular stance with the back leg just a little ways back (roughly shoulder width apart) in comparison to instinctive upper body fighting (boxing) where the legs must create a wider base. This kick comes with the added risk of having the groin vulnerable at times, which is against Karate and Tae Kwon Do ideology in general except for brief moments after a kick for example. The roundhouse kick draws its power entirely from the rotational movement of the body; the hips. It is thought many fighters use a counter rotation of the arms to intensify the power of this kick, but in actuality the power is from the hips and the arms are put in said position to get them out of the way.
If a roundhouse kick is attempted by the opponent, the Thai boxer will normally check the kick, that is he will block the kick with his own shin. Thai boxers are trained to always connect with the shin. The foot contains many fine bones and is much weaker. A fighter may end up hurting himself if he tries to strike with his foot or instep.
Muay thai also includes other varieties of kicking such as the side kick and spinning back kick. These kicks are used in bouts only by few fighters.

[edit] Knee (Ti khao)[9]

English Thai Romanization IPA
Straight Knee Strike เข่าตรง Khao trong [kʰàw troŋ]
Diagonal Knee Strike เข่าเฉียง Khao chiang [kʰàw tɕʰǐəŋ]
Curving Knee Strike เข่าโค้ง Khao khong [kʰàw kʰóːŋ]
Horizontal Knee Strike เข่าตัด Khao tat [kʰàw tàt]
Knee Slap เข่าตบ Khao top [kʰàw tòp]
Knee Bomb เข่ายาว Khao yao [kʰàw jaːw]
Flying Knee เข่าลอย Khao loi [kʰàw lɔːj]
Step-Up Knee Strike เข่าเหยียบ Khao yiap [kʰàw jìəp]
  • Khao dot [kʰàw dòːt] (Jumping knee strike) – the boxer jumps up on one leg and strikes with that leg's knee.
  • Khao loi (Flying knee strike) – the boxer takes a step(s), jumps forward and off one leg and strikes with that leg's knee.
  • Khao thon [kʰàw tʰoːn] (Straight knee strike) – the boxer simply thrusts it forward but not upwards, unless he is holding an opponents head down in a clinch and intend to knee upwards into the face. According to one written source, this technique is somewhat more recent than khao dot or khao loi.[citation needed] Supposedly, when the Thai boxers fought with rope-bound hands rather than the modern boxing gloves, this particular technique was subject to potentially vicious cutting, slicing and sawing by an alert opponent who would block it or deflect it with the sharp "rope-glove" edges which are sometimes dipped in water to make the rope much stronger. This explanation also holds true for some of the following knee strikes below as well.

[edit] Foot-thrust (Thip)

The foot-thrust or literally "foot jab" is one of the techniques in muay thai. It is mainly used as a defensive technique to control distance or block attacks. Foot-thrusts should be thrown quickly but yet with enough force to knock an opponent off balance.
English Thai Romanization IPA
Straight Foot-Thrust ถีบตรง Thip trong [tʰìːp troŋ][10]
Sideways Foot-Thrust ถีบข้าง Thip khang [tʰìːp kʰâːŋ]
Reverse Foot-Thrust ถีบกลับหลัง Thip klap lang [tʰìːp klàp lǎŋ]
Slapping Foot-Thrust ถีบตบ Thip top [tʰìːp tòp]
Jumping Foot-Thrust กระโดดถีบ Kradot thip [kradòːt tʰìːp]

[edit] Clinch and neck wrestling (Chap kho)

See also: Muay Thai clinch
In Western boxing the two fighters are separated when they clinch; in muay thai, however, they are not. It is often in the clinch where knee and elbow techniques are used. To strike and bind the opponent for both offensive and defensive purposes, small amounts of stand-up grappling are used in the clinch. The front clinch should be performed with the palm of one hand on the back of the other. There are three reasons why the fingers must not be intertwined. 1) In the ring fighters are wearing boxing gloves and cannot intertwine their fingers. 2) The Thai front clinch involves pressing the head of the opponent downwards, which is easier if the hands are locked behind the back of the head instead of behind the neck. Furthermore the arms should be putting as much pressure on the neck as possible. 3) A fighter may incur an injury to one or more fingers if they are intertwined, and it becomes more difficult to release the grip in order to quickly elbow the opponent's head.
A correct clinch also involves the fighter's forearms pressing against the opponent's collar bone while the hands are around the opponent's head rather than the opponent's neck. The general way to get out of a clinch is to push the opponent's head backwards or elbow them, as the clinch requires both participants to be very close to one another. Additionally, the non-dominant clincher can try to "swim" their arm underneath and inside the opponent's clinch, establishing the previously non-dominant clincher as the dominant clincher.
Muay thai has several other variants of the clinch or chap kho [tɕàp kʰɔː], including:
  • arm clinch: One or both hands controls the inside of the defender's arm(s) and where the second hand if free is in the front clinch position. This clinch is used to briefly control the opponent before applying a knee strike or throw
  • side clinch: One arm passes around the front of the defender with the attacker's shoulder pressed into the defender's arm pit and the other arm passing round the back which allows the attacker to apply knee strikes to the defender's back or to throw the defender readily.
  • low clinch: Both controlling arms pass under the defender's arms, which is generally used by the shorter of two opponents.
  • swan-neck: One hand around the rear of the neck is used to briefly clinch an opponent before a strike.[citation needed]

[edit] Defense against attacks

Defenses in muay thai are categorized in six groups:
  • Blocking – defender's hard blocks to stop a strike in its path so preventing it reaching its target (e.g. the shin block described in more detail below)
  • Redirection – defender's soft parries to change the direction of a strike (e.g. a downwards tap to a jab) so that it misses the target
  • Avoidance – moving a body part out of the way or range of a strike so the defender remains in range for a counter-strike. For example, the defender moves their front leg backwards to avoid the attacker's low kick, then immediately counters with a roundhouse kick. Or the defender might lay their head back from the attacker's high roundhouse kick then counter-attack with a side kick.
  • Evasion – moving the body out of the way or range of a strike so the defender has to move close again to counter-attack, e.g. defender jumping laterally or back from attacker's kicks
  • Disruption – Pre-empting an attack e.g. with defender using disruptive techniques like jab, foot-thrust or low roundhouse kick, generally called a "leg kick"(to the outside or inside of the attacker's front leg, just above the knee) as the attacker attempts to close distance
  • Anticipation – Defender catching a strike (e.g. catching an roundhouse kick to the body) or countering it before it lands (e.g. defender's low kick to the supporting leg below as the attacker initiates a high roundhouse kick).

[edit] Punches and kicks

Defensively, the concept of "wall of defense" is used, in which shoulders, arms and legs are used to hinder the attacker from successfully executing techniques. Blocking is a critical element in muay thai and compounds the level of conditioning a successful practitioner must possess. Low and mid body roundhouse kicks are normally blocked with the upper portion of a raised shin. High body strikes are blocked ideally with the forearms and shoulder together, or if enough time is allowed for a parry, the glove (elusively), elbow, or shin will be used. Mid section roundhouse kicks can also be caught/trapped, allowing for a sweep or counter-attack to the remaining leg of the opponent. Punches are blocked with an ordinary boxing guard and techniques similar, if not identical, to basic boxing technique. A common means of blocking a punch is using the hand on the same side as the oncoming punch. For example, if an orthodox fighter throws a jab (being the left hand), the defender will make a slight tap to redirect the punch's angle with the right hand. The deflection is always as small and precise as possible to avoid unnecessary energy expenditure and return the hand to the guard as quickly as possible. Hooks are most often blocked with a motion most often described as "combing the hair", that is, raising the elbow forward and effectively shielding the head with the forearm, flexed biceps and shoulder. More advanced muay thai blocks are usually in the form of counter-strikes, using the opponents weight (as they strike) to amplify the damage that the countering opponent can deliver. This requires impeccable timing and thus can generally only be learned by many repetitions.

[edit] Conditioning


A fighter punching a heavy bag in a training camp in Thailand.

A fighter before a round.
Like most competitive full contact fighting sports, muay thai has a heavy focus on body conditioning. Muay thai is specifically designed to promote the level of fitness and toughness required for ring competition. Training regimens include many staples of combat sport conditioning such as running, shadowboxing, rope jumping, body weight resistance exercises, medicine ball exercises, abdominal exercises, and in some cases weight training. Muay thai fighters rely heavily on kicks utilizing the shin bone. As such, practitioners of muay thai will repeatedly hit hard objects with their shins, conditioning it, hardening the bone through a process called cortical remodeling. Muay thai practitioners typically apply Namman Muay muay thai liniment liberally before and after their intense training sessions.
Training that is specific to a muay thai fighter includes training with coaches on Thai pads, focus mitts, heavy bag, and sparring. The daily training includes many rounds (3-5 minute periods broken up by a short rest, often 1–2 minutes) of these various methods of practice. Thai pad training is a cornerstone of muay thai conditioning which involves practicing punches, kicks, knees, and elbow strikes with a trainer wearing thick pads which cover the forearms and hands. These special pads are used to absorb the impact of the fighter’s strikes and allow the fighter to react to the attacks of the pad holder in a live situation. The trainer will often also wear a belly pad around the abdominal area so that the fighter can attack with straight kicks or knees to the body at anytime during the round.
Focus mitts are specific to training a fighter’s hand speed, punch combinations, timing, punching power, defense, and counter-punching and may also be used to practice elbow strikes. Heavy bag training is a conditioning and power exercise that reinforces the techniques practiced on the pads. Sparring is a means to test technique, skills, range, strategy, and timing against a partner. Sparring is often a light to medium contact exercise because competitive fighters on a full schedule are not advised to risk injury by sparring hard. Specific tactics and strategies can be trained with sparring including in close fighting, clinching and kneeing only, cutting off the ring, or using reach and distance to keep an aggressive fighter away.
Due to the rigorous training regimen (some Thai boxers fight almost every other week) professional muay thai fighters have relatively short careers in the ring. Many retire from competition to begin instructing the next generation of Thai fighters. Most professional Thai boxers come from the lower economic backgrounds, and the fight money (after the other parties get their cut) is sought as means of support for the fighters and their families. Very few higher economic strata Thais join the professional muay thai ranks; they usually either do not practice the sport or practice it only as amateur muay thai boxers.

[edit] Rules

Muay thai is practiced in many different countries and there are different rules depending on which country the fight is in and under what organization the fight is arranged. The following is a link to the rules section of the Sports Authority of Thailand.
  • A popular rule that many organizations use is the banning of elbow strikes. Many believe this is because of the cuts they leave.

[edit] Use in other combat sports

[edit] Mixed Martial Arts

Muay thai, like boxing and various forms of kickboxing, is recognized as a very effective striking base within MMA, and is very widely trained among MMA fighters. Fighters (some of whom have won titles) such as Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, Wanderlei Silva, Mauricio Rua, Thiago Silva, Alistair Overeem, Duane Ludwig, Jose Aldo, Amir Sadollah, Gina Carano, Cristiane Santos employ a broad range of tactics born of muay thai. Countless other mixed martial artists have trained in the art, and it is often taught at MMA gyms as is BJJ and Wrestling.
Many techniques associated with muay thai are often seen in MMA, such as punches, elbows, clinch fighting, leg kicks and knees.


BuRaq SaLosa

[edit] In popular culture

Main article: Muay Thai in popular culture
Interest in Muay Thai has risen in the past ten years, due to the popularity of martial arts in film and television. The most notable practitioner of Muay Thai is martial arts sensation Tony Jaa. Yet one of the first popular films that included Muay Thai was Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1989 movie Kickboxer.
Muay Thai has been represented in quite a few fighting games as well. Sagat and Adon from Street Fighter, Joe Higashi and King and Hwa Jai from King of Fighters, Zack the DJ from Dead or Alive, Bruce Irvin from Tekken, Brad Burns from Virtua Fighter, and Jax Briggs from Mortal Kombat are all known to be practitioners of Muay Thai. Muay Thai has also become popular in the movie industry with the release of The Ong Bak Trilogy, starring rising Muay Thai star Tony Jaa. Chocolate, starring Yanin Vismistananda, is another martial arts movie demonstrating Muay Thai's increasingly broad appeal.
Another reference to Muay Thai is its use in the anime/manga, "Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple". Apachai Hopachai, one of the Masters of Ryozanpaku is called, in episode 48, "The Death God of the Muay Thai Underworld"; he is also shown to have difficulty controlling his power as well. This stems from his life-long exposure to ruthless opponents in death-match fights.
Most recently Muay Thai has seen an influx in onscreen exposure with the likes of The Contender in 2006 and The Challenger Muay Thai in 2011 (Shown on AXN in Asia and airing 2012 worldwide).

The World Professional MuayThai Federation ( W.P.M.F ) สหพันธ์มวยไทยอาชีพโลก was formed February 2004 by the association of professional boxing of Thailand (PAT).  

The PAT is the only organization officially recognized by the Thai government.  

The WPMF was founded to promote and support the Muaythai worldwide, including enforcement of its traditions, rules and regulations. 

The W.P.M.F. is one of major organizations recognized in the world. 

W.P.M.F. acts as an intermediary in holding tournaments and controlling Thai boxing regulations for the global matches.

Contents

 [hide] 

[edit] Current WPMF title holders

[edit] Muaythai World Champions

Weight class Champion Date won Opponent / Place
Super-Heavy +95.454 kg Brazil Fabiano Cyclone March 21, 2010 won by point Yuki in Tokyo,Japan
Super-Heavy (Interim) France Brice Guidon December 4, 2010 won by TKO Tomas in Bangkok,Thailand
Heavy 95.454 kg --------

Cruiser 86.183 kg -------

Cruiser (Interim) Thailand Wehar TopKingboxing January 22, 2011 won by point Tof in Supanburi,Thailand
Light-Heavy 79.379 kg Canada Simon Macus March 16, 2012 won by point Kaoklai Kaennorasing in Bangkok,Thailand
Super-Middle France Aiello Batonon April 2, 2011 won by point Nonsai in Brest,France
Super-Middle (Interim) Switzerland Alex ChiangmaiMuayThai March 22, 2012 won by point Adrton in Rachaburi-Pref,Thailand
Middle 71.575 kg Sweden Tobbe Kaewsamrit December 4, 2011 won by point Panom in Bangkok,Thailand
Middle (Interim) Thailand Sriya Prasarthinpimai March 16, 2012 won by point in Chike Lindsay Bangkok,Thailand
Super-Welter 69.853 kg France Mickael Piscitello October 15, 2010 won by point Tanondej in Reunion,France
Super-Welter (Interim) Brazil Jos Rodrigues Mendonca March 17, 2012 (1)won by point Charng Chanyui in Ayutthaya,Thailand
Welter 66.678 kg Thailand Amin Tor Prantaksin December 30, 2011 (1)won by point Chales in Pattaya,Bangkok
Welter (Interim) France Charles Francois December 4, 2011 won by point Chang Chanyui in Bangkok,Thailand
Super-Light 63.503 kg France Damien Alamos September 23, 2011 (1)won by point Diesellek in Lumpinee,Thailand
Super-Light (Interim) Thailand Thanasak Topkingboxing December 4, 2010 won by point Albus in Bangkok,Thailand
Light 61.235 kg Japan Arito Tsukahara November 13, 2011 won by KO Kanonsuk in Tokyo,Japan
Light (Interim) Thailand Samorchai Vor Por sukothai March 18, 2012 (1)won by point Wanmario in Ayutthaya,Thailand
Super-Feather 58.967 kg Japan Genji Umeno November 13, 2011 won by TKO Deskamol in Tokyo,Japan
Super-Feather (Interim) Thailand Singpayak M.Rachapatmubarnjombung March 22, 2012 won by point Ainun in Rachaburi-pref,Thailand
Feather 57.153 kg Thailand jaisu Tor.Thepstin December 4, 2011 won by point Gayroad in Bangkok,Thailand
Super-Bantam 55.338 kg Thailand Rakkiat Kiatprapad March 17, 2011 won by point Gaodeng in Rachaburi,Thailand
Bantam 53.524 kg -------

Super-Fly 52.163 kg Thailand Rattaket Teedej99 September 6, 2011 won by point Wirachai in Lumpinee,Thailand
Fly 50.802 kg Thailand Ritthikrai Kaewsamrit March 22, 2012 won by point Ainun in Rachaburi-pref,Thailand

[edit] Female World Champions

Weight class Champion Date won
Middle 71.575 kg -------
Super-Welter 69.853 kg United Kingdom Julie Kitchen December 4, 2009
Welter 63.5kg kg -------
Super-Light 63.503 kg Luxembourg Claire Haigh TigerMuaythai January 21, 2010
Light 61.235 kg Japan Yui Takada August 11, 2011
Super-Feather 58.967 kg Thailand Mesar Tor Buwamart March 17, 2011
Feather 57.153 kg Thailand Sawsing Sor.Sopis March 25, 2012
Feather (Interim) Canada Lindsay Ball SinbiMuaythai August 11, 2011
Super-Bantam 55.338 kg -------
Bantam 53.524 kg United Kingdom Alexis Dejpoltip March 22, 2012
Super-Fly 52.163 kg Thailand Saifar Tor.Buwamars July 9, 2011
Fly 50.802 kg Greece Teena Kotar March 17, 2011
Light-Fly 48.988 kg Thailand Thananchanok Kaewsamrit (1)won by TKO Yokfar March 22, 2012
Mini-fly 47.727 kg Japan Erika Kamimura September 12, 2010
Pin 45.454 kg Japan Chiharu Weerasak Muaythai August 28, 2011

[edit] Muaythai European Champions

Weight class Champion Date won
Heavy weight France Brice Guidon February 6, 2010
Super-cruiser weight Algeria Zinedine Hamerlain
Cruiser weight France Abderrahmane Coulibaly October 29, 2010
Super-Middle weight France Aiello Batonon June 19, 2010
Welter weight France Charles François February 27, 2010
Super-Light weight France Damien Alamos
Light weight France Xavier Bastard January 23, 2010
Feather weight France Albert Chey 2010

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Champion's database is official ranking from the headquarter of W.P.M.F.


Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)