French Muay Thai champion sends four police officers to the hospital in Madrid, Spain. The event took place early Saturday morning, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo. The assailant was able to be reduced with a lot of trouble by six police officers.
BANGKOK (NNT) – Champion Muay Thai fighter Sombat Banchamek also known as Buakaw, recently provided Muay Thai lessons to American soldiers during this year’s multilateral “Cobra Gold” military exercises, hosted in Thailand. Buakaw expressed his satisfaction with the willingness of American soldiers to learn about Thailand’s national arts and the culture of Muay Thai. He […]
3,660 Thai soldiers have set a new Guinness World Record after performing the largest Muay Thai Wai Kru ceremony as part of the government’s attempt to push Muay Thai as the country’s unique soft power. The performance took place at Rajabhakti Park in Hua Hin district of Prachuap Khiri Khan province yesterday, February 6th. According […]
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, Feb 6 (TNA) – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and the Royal Thai Army organize the Amazing Thailand Muay Thai Festival to mark the National Muay Thai Day on Feb 6 and to promote the national heritage and tourism. The festival takes place from Feb 4-6 at Rajabhakti Park and Suan […]
BANGKOK, July 26 (TNA) – French boxer Anthony Durand announced he quit Muay Thai boxing after his last opponent, Thai boxer Panphet Phadungchai, died on July 23. The bout, a part of the Fighter X Show, happened at the Thupatemi Air Force boxing stadium on July 15. Panphet was knocked out and his head hit […]
CHIANG MAI, April 5 (TNA) – The commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 5 includes Muay Thai as a compulsory subject in the curriculum of police corporal students and Muay Thai legend Buakaw Banchamek is among their trainers. Pol Lt Gen Piya Tavichai, the commissioner, signed an agreement with representatives of Pinsinchai and Banchamek Muay […]
Pareploy Saeaia has become a testament to the power of female martial arts, after the clip of her tackling a guy who poured water over her head because she spurned his advances went viral. The vengeful wooer quickly discovered he’d picked the wrong victim at a roadside eatery when Pareploy unleashed her Muay Thai expertise […]
BANGKOK (NNT) – The Thai government is seeking to promote Muay Thai on the global stage as an instrument of soft power, instructing the Ministry of Sports and Tourism and the private sector to organize boxing events in the Kingdom to promote Thai culture. Gen Thanwakom Thipayachan, president of the World Muay Thai Alliance (WMA) […]
