Dave Leduc

Dave Leduc
Leduc in 2019
Born (1991-12-13) December 13, 1991
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
NicknameThe King of Lethwei
Steel Giraffe
ဒေဝ (pronounced 'day-wa')
Nationality Canada
Myanmar
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight165 lb (75 kg; 11 st 11 lb)
StyleLethwei, Sanda, Jeet Kune Do
StanceOrthodox
TeamPatenaude Martial Arts (2009–present)
TrainerSifu Patrick Marcil
RankBlue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Years active2013–present
Other information
Spouse
(m. 2016)
Children2
WebsiteOfficial website
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Dave Leduc (born 13 December 1991) is a Canadian-Burmese Lethwei fighter. He is a former six-time Lethwei world champion who held the Openweight Lethwei World Championship and was undefeated under traditional rules KO to win. In 2014, Leduc first gained widespread notoriety by winning his fight in the controversial Prison Fight inside Klongpai maximum security prison in Thailand.

In 2016, he travelled to Myanmar to fight Burmese bareknuckle boxing considered the world's most brutal sport, and defeated the reigning champion Tun Tun Min to become the first non-Burmese to win the Lethwei Golden Belt title. The same year, Leduc married Moldovan model Irina Terehova in a nationally televised traditional Burmese wedding ceremony in Yangon which attracted a reported 30 million viewers in Myanmar. Leduc became a superstar celebrity in the country and is mobbed by locals wherever he goes. He is the biggest star in the sport of Lethwei and has been described as cultural phenomenon in Myanmar.