"The Burmese Python" — openweight, modern
Tun Tun Min is a Myanmar-based Lethwei fighter with a record of 23-4-6 and a 65% knockout rate. Widely regarded as the greatest modern Myanmar Lethwei fighter, he is known for his pressure fighting, iron chin, and signature short left hook to the liver. His career is defined by high-profile matches against Dave Leduc and Cyrus Washington.
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Widely regarded as the greatest modern Myanmar Lethwei fighter. His bouts against Dave Leduc defined international Lethwei in the mid-2010s and remain the most-watched matches in the sport's history. Famous for walking through punishment and finishing with body work.
→ Short left hook to the liver
Tun Tun Min is recorded at 23–4–6, with 15 of those 23 wins ending by knockout. Modern-era figures are the more dependable ones on this site: WLC and MTLF cards are sanctioned and their results published, so these numbers can be checked against event results rather than oral history.
65% of those wins came inside the distance, which ranks 4th of the 29 profiled fighters with a documented record. In a sport whose traditional ruleset offered no decision at all, a finishing rate that high is the clearest signal of a fighter built to end contests early.
Tun Tun Min is one of 3 fighters profiled at openweight, and fights orthodox, as 28 of the 32 profiled fighters do.
Tun Tun Min is listed as active, so this record is a snapshot rather than a final tally.
A round-two left hook to the liver that announced Tun Tun Min as Myanmar's premier modern fighter. The body shot was technically perfect: he rolled under Washington's cross, dropped his level by a beat, and found the same window twice in succession.
A draw, but the round-three exchange that opened a cut on Leduc's brow signalled what would come in the rematch. Tun Tun Min's pressure forced Leduc to fight inside his comfort zone for the first time.
A loss that confirmed his stature. Tun Tun Min absorbed a brutal headbutt sequence and continued, refusing to take the two-minute timeout. The fight is studied today as a textbook example of the limits of pressure-fighting against a headbutt specialist.
“He fights like a Burmese fighter. Some of us were born here and don't fight like that.”