World Muaythai Council

Lumpini has been for more than five decades, located in the centre of Bangkok City, attached to the beautiful Lumpini Park, hosting three fight shows every week. It was the golden days of so many Thai legends such as Dieselnoi Chor Thanasukarn, Samart Payakaroon and Pudpad Noy Worawoot. Then in the 1980’s when Muaythai has become more recognised internationally, it was the late Ramon Dekker, amongst many other international superstars who ...

Valentina Shevchenko, 5 time IFMA World Champion and 2 time World Combat Games Champion from Peru has rocketed to super stardom in South America. Valentina was a member of the Green team on the 2nd season of a popular reality TV game show for young Peruvians called “Combate Peru”. The show’s format features 2 teams of participants who are pitted against one another through various physical and mental competitions and battles. Valentina ...

November 22-23 will see a multi-tournament muaythai mega event in the town in Pinto, Madrid. Among the tournments will be a women's Queen of Queens Tournament to showcase Spain's feistiest females challenging one another for the most coveted title of Muaythai Queen. An exciting 8-man elimination tournament titled  Muaythai Warriors will see some of Spain's best go head to head. The highlight tourney will be the Spain VS Thailand event which will be ...

Very dear friends and colleagues, We are so sorry to read and see the news about the devastation brought by Typhoon Haiyan. Our Muaythai family has in the past celebrated with you and enjoyed your country’s hospitality. It is terrible to see the suffering being endured in the central Philippines now. Our hearts go out to you and your country, to everyone who has been affected, all those who have lost their homes ...

Round 2 again had a full-capacity crowd and a world-class production mixed with entertaining fights proving again to be a hit,  further promoting female Muaythai. The first matchup in Pool A brought the two world champions together: Duennapa Mor Rattanapundit from Thailand Joanna Jedrzejczyk from Poland: both women from the start to the end stood toe-to-toe using all weapons of Muaythai and in the end with the help of the sold ...

The success story of Challenger MuayThai continues after the nomination for the international Emmy. It just have been awarded the Best Original Asian Format which is great news for MuayThai. The show has taken MuayThai and all its traditions and values to over 400 million households contributing the the further popularity as a martial art and as a combat sports.

Female Muaythai is becoming stronger and stronger at the Muaythai Angels event with 16 girls from 14 countries has been one of the most talked about sporting events. The first stage of the event has just been held in Bangkok at the Bangkok Convention Hall which was filled to the last seat. Two hours live coverage with great entertainment. The opening fight was between Thailand's Dunnapa and New Zealand's Wendy. This ...

Muaythai is a precious martial art and so is Idar Oberstein known as the gem stone city of Germany. A special international Muaythai event was held, with four belts (Ruby, Diamond, Tourmaline and Aquamarine). It was the first of its kind and four sponsors donated the stones for the belts. It was the first in the region and attained a full house and WMC vice president was there to give a ...

After the boys have taken centre stage for many years, especially with television shows like The Contender or the Emmy-nominated TV show, Challenger, it is long overdue that the girls will take centre stage. Galaxy work group under the sanctioning of the World Muaythai Council have worked hard to put together the World Muaythai Angel concept: 16 girls from 15 countries, New Zealand, Morocco, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Korea, Italy, France, Belarus, ...