Sylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu (born 3 November 1983) is an American professional
Muay Thai
Muay Thai ( th, มวยไทย, , ), sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, is a combat sport that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This discipline is known as the "art of eight limbs", as it is characterised ...
fighter.
Living and competing in Thailand, where she holds the most recorded number of fights by a foreigner in the country, Duuglas-Ittu is a two-times International Professional Combat Council (IPCC) World Champion and the 2023
WBC Minimumweight Muay Thai World Champion. As of June 16, 2023, she is ranked No. 1 and No. 10 respectively in the World Muay thai Organization (WMO)
Mini flyweight and the
IFMA Pinweight Atomweight (also referred to as light minimumweight, junior strawweight, junior mini-flyweight and pinweight) is a weight class in combat sports.
Boxing
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Muay Thai rankings.
Biography
Von Duuglas-Ittu was born on 3 November 1982.
Duuglas-Ittu discovered
Muay Thai
Muay Thai ( th, มวยไทย, , ), sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, is a combat sport that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This discipline is known as the "art of eight limbs", as it is characterised ...
in
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is a home rule city that is the county seat and most populous municipality of Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 108,250 at the 2020 United States census, making it the 12th most populous city in Color ...
before started training under veteran fighter Kumron Vaitayanon (Master K) in
New Jersey
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. On 27 June 2009 she had her first competitive fight in
Richmond, Virginia
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.
After receiving a
Liberal Arts
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degree from
Sarah Lawrence College
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, she moved permanently to
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
in 2012 to train and fight.
In May 2019 and in 2020, she won the International Professional Combat Council (IPCC) World 108 lbs title.
In March 2021 she was ranked No. 2 in
Mini flyweight by the WBC MuayThai.
In November 2022 Duuglas-Ittu held the most recorded number of fights by a foreigner in Thailand with 270 fights.
In December 2022 she was ranked No. 2 in
Minimumweight by the WBC MuayThai.
On 4 February 2023, in
Hua Hin, Thailand, she became
WBC Muay Thai Minimumweight World Champion after defeating Elisabetta Solinas of Italy.
In June 2023, Duuglas-Ittu ranked No. 1 in Mini flyweight by the World Muaythai Organization (WMO),
and No. 10 in
Pinweight Atomweight (also referred to as light minimumweight, junior strawweight, junior mini-flyweight and pinweight) is a weight class in combat sports.
Boxing
In women's boxing and junior amateur boxing pinweight is, or has been, a weight class for boxer ...
by the
International Federation of Muaythai Associations (IFMA).
Duuglas-Ittu is also a freelance journalist
and runs a popular Muay Thai blog called ''8limbsus.com''
Titles and accomplishments
Muay Thai
* 2014 Queen's Cup - champion
* 2014 Chonburi Buffalo Race Festival (Chua Kraow Stadium) - champion
* 2014 Sriracha - champion
* 2014 Thepprasit Stadium - champion
* 2015 Chonburi Buffalo Race Festival (Chua Kraow Stadium) - champion
* 2015 Sattahip Loi Krathong Festival - champion
* 2016 Muay Siam - Northern Thailand Champion
* 2017 Thepprasit Stadium - champion
* 2019 IPCC World 108 lbs champion
* 2020 IPCC World 112 lbs champion
* 2023
WBC Minimumweight Muay Thai World Champion
Awards
* ''Awakening Magazine Female Muay Thai Fighter of the Year'' (2015
/ 2017
)
* ''Awakening Magazine Journalist of the Year'' (2014
)
Fight record
''Legend'':
Amateur record
''Legend'':
References
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1983 births
People from Boulder, Colorado
Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu
Living people
Female Muay Thai practitioners
American female kickboxers