. What challenges do you expect him to present that a more “conventional” opponent might not? I’m happy. Apparel & Training Gear, Lethwei America . I’m with my wife travelling the world.

It is a full contact combat martial art that consists of striking and clinching techniques. Especially since I liked the rest of what they were doing; the grandiose aspect, and the global vision they had for Lethwei. We visited 25 countries in the last year, I really can’t complain. The champ does not challenge anyone, he gets challenged.

I’m focused on the KO. But, I’d like to do it in MMA. . . I didn’t encounter it too much, but there were a few bottles flying when I fought Too Too—and they told me to wait a little bit before getting out of the stadium. UFC 253: Adesanya vs. Costa - Winners and Losers, Pros react to Adesanya’s domination of Costa at UFC 253.

Your next Lethwei fight will be your first with judges. Traditionally, the fights are 5 rounds, and are automatically declared draws if there is no KO. Promoters also warned me to watch what I was eating when I was fighting Tun Tun Min, but I didn’t have any problem. It was a bit hostile at first.

Bloody Elbow sat down with him ahead of his fight with Seth Baczynski for the World Lethwei Championship cruiserweight belt, which will air on UFC Fight Pass at 7:15am ET/4:15am PT on Friday, August 2nd. . No. UFC president Dana White wasn’t exactly pleased with Conor McGregor’s recent revelation of their private conversation. . So over the history of both sports, Thais got excellent kicks and not so great boxing, whereas Burmese fighters developed excellent hands and are extremely tough. So I started to get experience in Thailand, but my style was never really popular with promoters, because they said I didn’t represent the Thai style—and I didn’t want to. So I’m glad that champions will have to fight and I think it will push fighters to perform.

In Thailand, there’s a lot of focus on kicks and not too much on the hands. I liked training in Thailand, because there were a lot of people to train with. Aaron has made us all welcome from the day we walked in the door. Best workout in Yangon! .

. White: McGregor sharing our DMs is ‘one of the dirtiest things you can do’. But being big doesn’t give you a better chin. I had already started to practice headbutts and bare-knuckle with my coach a couple of years before, with the goal to go fight in Lethwei.

. And hopefully a next generation of fighters can come out of it.

The use of... ...makes it a very dangerous martial art. Part 3 – In America, About . As I told you, I dominated my previous fights. I didn’t like the scoring system, which favors a lot of kicks.