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25.05.2012
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The IFMA booth was honoured to welcome a visit from Joel Bouzou, President of Peace & Sport and his delegation. IFMA, a partner of Peace & Sport has launched the “Sport Is Your Gang” project in cooperation with Peace & Sport and recently celebrated this launch with an event in honour of the project in Tehran, the Peace & Sport through Muaythai President’s Cup. During his visit to the IFMA booth, President Joel Bouzou discussed with IFMA General Secretary Stephan
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25.05.2012
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This weekend, the WMC has two world class shows, with Slovakia being the venue for the WMC World title fight, Yodsanklai (THA) VS Moravcik (SVK). The Globen Arena in Sweden will also be packed, for the $300,000 Glory event. Stay tuned for all events on the WMC website, the world governing body for the sport of Muaythai: www.wmcmuaythai.org
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23.05.2012
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This weekend, May 26th, Sweden’s Globen Arena will host so many fantastic fights in the Glory Fight series. One of the highlights will be the squaring off of two WMC King’s Cup winners and former World Champions: Thailand’s Kem Sitsongpeenong battling Brasil’s Cosmo Alexandre…only one will win the glory.
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23.05.2012
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Globen Arena will stage the first leg of the Glory Super Series this weekend, May 26th, 2012. The event is sanctioned by the Swedish Muaythai Federation, under the umbrella of the World Muaythai Council. The night will see the world’s best fighters gearing up for the $300,000 prize money, a purse of glory. Former WMC World Champion and K-1 Max winner, Giorgio Petrosyan from Italy will take on Thai Fight winner, France’s Fabio Pinca. Two WMC King’s Cup winners, Thailand’s
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22.05.2012
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May 22, 2012 by Patrick O’Brien Wannabe MMA fighters, ever dreamt of competing in the octagon in front of an adoring crowd and live television audience, just like your heroes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)? Well, now’s your moment. Abu Dhabi Fighting Championship (ADFC) will later this year broadcast on national television a programme seeking [...]
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21.05.2012
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It was six months in planning, in order to get some of Europe’s best female fighters into one Fight Night, organised by Chitalada, sanctioned by the Finnish Muaythai Association and WMC, and the amateur fights sanctioned by IFMA. For the female WMC Scandinavian title, two of Scandinavia’s best, Anna Willberg from Finland and Lina Länsberg from Sweden, gave a fantastic display of Muaythai, with Lina taking the victory in a split point decision. There were two female WMC European titles
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18.05.2012
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What months for Muaythai, with so many events around the world. Let’s start at the top: Australia had two fantastic female events, with Caley Reece defending her World title, and Kate Heuston winning the Intercontinental title. USA: Two IFMA World Champions met in San Francisco for a much anticipated fight, Miriam Nakamoto against Sandra Bastian, WMC Light Weight Female World Champion. On the same card, Cyrus Washington faced down Ky Hollenback to battle it out for a possible place in
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18.05.2012
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July 21-22 will see the official qualifiers to select the national team to represent Brazil at the upcoming IFMA World Championships in St. Petersburg in September 2012.
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17.05.2012
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The WMC Female World title was a much anticipated fight between Valentina Shevchenko, 4 x IFMA World Champion and Sport Accord Champion from Peru, taking on. Valentina showed once again why she is definitely one of the best female fighters in the world, winning in a point decision. One of the biggest fight nights took place in one of Europe’s Muaythai power nations, when Sweden’s Alex Harris took on France’s own Aïello Batonon for the WMC Super Middle Weight title.
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17.05.2012
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Contender Asia Champion and WMC World Champion, Yodsanklai, is being challenged by Moravcik, in a match where East and West are destined to meet. Moravcik is one of the most outstanding and famous non-Thais in Thailand, the winner of such prestigious events as the Toyota Marathon Tournament, and a stadium champion at the famous Lumphini Stadium (Yodsanklai is himself a 4x stadium champion). Both fighters were also medal winners at the 2010 SportAccord Combat Games in Beijing. This is a
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