Currently Reading: Female Fighters

  For those who don’t already follow, Rosy Hayward’s Female Muay Thai News, Archive and Rumors Facebook Group (open to anyone) is one of the heartbeats of female Muay Thai online conversation. A lot of world...

  Above are highlights from the Girls S-Cup in Japan, August 25th of this year. These girls fight relatively close to my weight class and I’ve had my eye on Erika Kamimura after her knock out...

I saw this posted on her Facebook page of Chantal Ughi (World Champion Muay Thai fighter living and fighting in Bangkok). There are 3 types of Thai trainers in Thailand: 1. the ones who only make...

There aren’t a great number of professional female Muay Thai fighters in the west and fewer still in the USA.  I came across Roxy “Balboa” Richardson just as she was preparing for her retirement fight this...

A few years back I was making a film about Natalie Fuz’s final Muay Thai fight before her retirement in December of 2009.  I got a media pass to film at Friday Night Fights at the...

Either Side of the Ropes Something happens when a woman steps into the ring.  It’s not universal and I cannot speak for everybody,  but I’ve both witnessed this phenomenon on many occasions in other women and...

Prior to the March 3rd Strikeforce event, I didn’t know much about Ronda Rousey.  I knew she was young, adroit at shit-talking and had a pension for arm bars.  Miesha Tate was a clearer story –...