Tun Tun Min

Tun Tun Min
Born April 2, 1991
Kyaikmaraw , Mon State, Myanmar[1]
Native name ထွန်းထွန်းမင်း
Nationality Burmese
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Stance Orthodox
Team Tun Tun Min Club

Tun Tun Min (Burmese: ထွန်းထွန်းမင်း), also known as Mu Don Tharr (မုဒုံသား), is a Burmese Lethwei fighter and former openweight Lethwei World Champion.[1] Tun Tun Min is the youngest fighter to ever win the Lethwei Golden Belt, obtaining the title at 23.[2] Tun Tun Min is also notable for fighting with foreign fighters from outside Myanmar.[3] He took part in Muay Thai competitions at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games and 2013 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games winning Gold and Bronze respectively.

Lethwei career

Becoming champion

In 2014, at the age of 23, Tun Tun Min became the youngest fighter to win the Lethwei open weight World Title by defeating Saw Nga Man.[3] Lethwei is also known as Burmese bareknuckle boxing and is considered to be one of the most aggressive sports in the world.[2]

Despite being both among the top ranked lethwei fighters in Myanmar, Tun Tun Min and Too Too have refused to fight each other due to their long-lasting friendship.[4]

Losing the title

After a dominant performance over Too Too, Tun Tun Min challenged Lethwei newcomer, Quebec born fighter, Dave Leduc. Their first bout was an explosive draw.

On 11 December 2016, the very anticipated rematch of Tun Tun Min and Dave Leduc took place at the Air KBZ Aung Lan Golden Belt Championship in Yangon, Myanmar.[5] The two previously fought in October to a draw, but the rematch was sweetened by an added bonus: ownership of the Lethwei Golden Belt. Tun Tun Min lost for only the second time in his career, as he lost to Dave Leduc due to an injury to his leg. [6][7][8]

WLC

In 2017, Tun Tun Min signed an exclusive contract with World Lethwei Championship. In his first fight with the promotion, he defeated British kickboxer Nicholas Carter in a first-round knockout.

Titles

References

  1. 1 2 Kyaw Tun (17 April 2015). "ဘက္တူရင္ လူမေရြးတဲ့ ထြန္းထြန္းမင္း (The people side with Tun)". Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 "လက္ရွိခ်န္ပီယံ ေစာငမန္းကို အလဲထိုးၿပီး ထြန္းထြန္းမင္း အသက္အငယ္ဆံုး ခ်န္ပီယံျဖစ္လာ (Tun Becomes The Youngest National Champion)". phothutaw.com. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
  3. 1 2 Kyaw Zin Hlaing (19 January 2016). "Bring on the world". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Kyaw Zin Hlaing and Matt Roebuck (16 March 2016). "Friendship before fights". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Kyaw Zin Hlaing (7 April 2017). "Knee injury sidelines Lethwei champ". Myanmar Times.
  6. ↑ Lelièvre, Benoît (30 May 2017). "Le champion de boxe à mains nues québécois que vous ne connaissez pas". Vice Quebec.
  7. ↑ "デーブ・レダックチャンピオン Dave Leduc Champion". The Weekly Fight. 12 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "【ラウェイ】地上最も過激な格闘技の英雄を倒したカナダ人王者、無敗戦士と激突(Japanese)". eFight Japan. 2 January 2017.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Saw Nga Man		 Lethwei Openweight World Champion
September 21, 2014 – December 11, 2016		 Succeeded by
Dave Leduc


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