Vacant Women's WBC Minimum Weight International Title 7/16/2023 in Vietnam

[dtrick924]

This post from the WBC on Facebook caught my eye. A fight for the vacant Women's WBC Minimum Weight International Title is taking place on 7/26/2023 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Huynh Ha Huu Hieu (Vietnam) vs Pornthip Khamthongpanow (Thailand).

Sylvie fought Elisabetta Solinas (Italy) for the vacant Women's WBC Minimum Weight World Title on 2/4/2023. Fight #275 on the way to #471. 

When I first say the FB post I didn't realize there were 3 belts at each weight class: World, International, and European. I was trying to figure out why 2 other women were fighting for "Sylvie's Belt" instead of Sylvie defending it.

Women's WBC Rankings,  Huynh Ha Huu Hieu (Vietnam) is ranked 5th and Pornthip Khamthongpanow (Thailand) is ranked 7th.

Fight #275 Kevin's corner video 

Fight #275 Sylvie's commentary

Edited June 19 by dtrick924
Edited to add WBC rankings

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

Good catch Kristen.

Looks like this is the Vietnamese fighter:

 

[dtrick924]

16 hours ago, Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu said:

Good catch Kristen.

Looks like this is the Vietnamese fighter:

 

Does Sylvie know the Thai woman? I looked through Sylvie's fight record but didn't see a name that matched. I know Thai fighters often change their fight names or their names are transliterated different ways in English.

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

2 hours ago, dtrick924 said:

Does Sylvie know the Thai woman? I looked through Sylvie's fight record but didn't see a name that matched. I know Thai fighters often change their fight names or their names are transliterated different ways in English.

I don't think so. We've been pretty much told over and over that no Thai in the country around Sylvie's weight will fight her, so unless they were fighting a few years before we've lost touch with some of the names who are active at this size.

[emma]

Phornthip Khamthongphanaw is a 19-year-old fighter who trains at the Khlong Toei Youth Center in Bangkok. UNDP Thailand did a video on her recently, which you can watch here.

There's also a Vice article by the same journalist on her story:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7en4d/women-muay-thai-rising-star-thailand

[dtrick924]

https://www.facebook.com/WBCMuayThai/posts/pfbid0RX14hHTHVgJA6uKaYDGKb1wCobdmKrrP4GdxNGA7dHGM2gRQC8VXLySNBjs1GQcSl

Results via facebook

Vietnam’s Ha Huu Hieu Huynh captured the WBC MuayThai International minimum-weight title by way of 3rd round TKO over Thailand’s Pornthip Khamthongpanow

Highlight Reel of the fight 

https://fb.watch/m90Iei13OI/ 

Livestream, the fight intro starts at 3:39:48

https://fb.watch/m90X6vprEc/