Myanmar’s top woman fighter Bozhena Antoniyar attends a training session in Yangon August 15, 2019. — AFP pic
“ had never seen or heard of girls doing lethwei,” the 24-year-old told AFP. “I had to trick them by saying I was playing football.” Bozhena, who goes by the nickname Toto, trains in a humid Yangon gym where she pummels her coach with jabs and hooks while ducking counterpunches. The bone-crunching Myanmar fighting style is considered one of the most aggressive in the world. Combatants eschew boxing gloves for thin gauze wrapped around hardened knuckles and head-butting is permitted.
The most well-known — and Bozhena’s hero — is Aung La Nsang, an ethnic Kachin nicknamed the “Burmese Python” who holds both middleweight and light heavyweight world titles for One Championship. She has gained fans across Myanmar, including within her once-disapproving community, she says with a smile. “Now when I have a fight, my house is packed with people who come to watch,” she said.
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