Dave Leduc
| Dave Leduc | |
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Leduc in 2019 | |
| Born | December 13, 1991 Gatineau, Quebec, Canada |
| Nickname | The King of Lethwei Steel Giraffe ဒေဝ (pronounced 'day-wa') |
| Nationality | Canada Myanmar |
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg; 11 st 11 lb) |
| Style | Lethwei, Sanda, Jeet Kune Do |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Team | Patenaude Martial Arts (2009–present) |
| Trainer | Sifu Patrick Marcil |
| Rank | Blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
| Years active | 2013–present |
| Other information | |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | Official 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.