BELIEVING that Filipinos have the potential to excel in the Burmese martial art of Lethwei, the World Lethwei Championship (WLC) is looking to feature fighters from the Philippines beginning next year ...
SINGAPORE - What do you get when you cross the rich culture and hard-hitting strikes found in Muay Thai, with the ferocity of bare-knuckle boxing? Lethwei, the Burmese martial art with roots as far ...
In an exclusive interview with Sportskeeda MMA, Canadian Lethwei fighter Dave Leduc recently detailed his experience of fighting in the maximum security Klong Pai Central Prison in Thailand and facing ...
This article is part of a package produced by a group of final-year undergraduates from Nanyang Technological University's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, for the programme Going ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the old days, droves of spectators gathered in communal theatres around rural Myanmar to witness just one thing – Lethwei, the ...
YANGON: The young men - some just boys - are lean and muscular. Sweat drips off them as they jostle and jab in the fading light. They cast shadows on the rough bitumen, which acts as their training ...
The combatants circle each other. Hands up around their temples, they repeatedly raise their knees, readying themselves to throw a leg strike or a knee, or to block one. Spurred on by the baying crowd ...
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