DEFENDING Cruiserweight Lethwei World Champion Dave Leduc who is representing Myanmar recently stated on his social media page that he will assist the growth of Myanma traditional lethwei in the United States with the help of Myanmar Traditional Lethwei Federation and lethwei authorities from Myanmar.
“I spoke with the Myanmar Traditional Lethwei Federation (MTLF) and they are excited to help create the first USA Lethwei Federation. I will support these efforts with my team.
I want to also thank Zay Thiha and WLC team for their support for this fight outside of the organization.
My next goal is to defend my WLC - World Lethwei Championship title in 2021. Thank you for all for the support.”, Dave added.
Next Dave has expressed his cheerfulness for getting big fans in Myanmar.
“I want to thank all my fans who support me!
Myanmar has around 53 million population and during my fight I reached over 39,000,000 people on my Facebook page. We are already at 1.3M (million) in my Lethwei family!
The bigger the Lethwei family is, the more Lethwei will become popular around the world and the more people will gain interest in the Myanmar culture. Lethwei can make the Myanmar economy grow, as people will come visit our golden land!
They will come to Myanmar to train Lethwei, watch fights, go to restaurants, eat the local food, stay in hotels, buy souvenirs, visit Bagan, Inya Lake, Shwedagon Pagoda, Zwekabin, ect, do you realize that Lethwei can help boost the country? Thailand used Muaythai to promote their country, but we will do it better.
They heavily copied Lethwei to make their Muayboran which later became Muaythai. I am sour about this, so that’s the reason I want to fight more Muaythai champions and beat them using Lethwei techniques.
I want to congratulate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for her re-election and I hope to have the honor to meet her one day and discuss the power of Myanmar traditional Lethwei for the Myanmar tourism economy.
My last fight was very important for advancement of Myanmar Lethwei. For the first time in North America, I was so proud to perform my Lethwei Yay in USA with traditional Myanmar music. I was also happy to fight Lethwei in a cage just like Tway Ma Shaung did”, Dave added.
Lynn Thit (Tgi)
