Tag: Tun Tun Min

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar : Kickboxing fans in Myanmar are pinning high hopes on Tun Tun Min, the toughest fighter in the country’s traditional boxing ring. This December he will fight for the title in the national championship of traditional Lethwei, considered by many as one of the world's most brutal martial arts. Tun Tun Min, an ethnic Mon and Muslim, became Myanmar's youngest open-weight champion of Lethwei in 2014. He was only 21. The eldest son of a poor Muslim family in a remote village of southern Mon state, he worked...