Shwe Du Wun (Burmese: ရွှေဒူဝံ) was a Burmese Lethwei fighter from Hpa-An, Kayin State.[1] He was a former openweight Lethwei World Champion and held the title from 1995 until 1998.[2]
In his fighting career, Shwe Du Wun had a rivalry with Wan Chai and their first fight was in Mandalay, Myanmar in 1995. “I beat him three times. The rest were draws. He was very resilient and strong” said Wan Chai. After retiring, Shwe Du Wun still attended Lethwei fights and supported upcoming Lethwei fighters. Lethwei champion Soe Lin Oo stated that Shwe Du Wun was his role model.[3]
On April 1, 1998, traditional Lethwei challenge fights were held in commemoration of the 51st Mon National Day in Yangon, Myanmar. In a five-round match, Wan Chai knocked out Shwe Du Wun at 1 minute and four seconds in third-round and won the Openweight Lethwei World Title.[1]
On March 4, 2023, Shwe Du Wun died aboard a passenger bus that crashed and overturned near the mile post No.167 on the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway.[4][5] Three people died including the former Lethwei champion.[6][7][8] Initially authorities were not able to identify Shwe Du Wun because his face was badly damaged.[9]
Lethwei record (incomplete)
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| Date | Result | Opponent | Event | Location | Method | Round | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-04-01 | Win |  Wan Chai |
51st Mon National Day, Aung San Indoor Stadium | Yangon, Myanmar | KO | 3 | 1:04[1] | |
| Lost Openweight Lethwei World Title | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ a b c "Traditional boxing challenges conclude". The New Light of Myanmar. 2 April 1998.
- ^ Aung Mint Sein (August 18, 2023). "History of the Lethwei Golden Belt". Lethwei World.
- ^ "Shwe Duwun, a Lethwei legend dies". Democratic Voice of Burma. March 12, 2023.
- ^ "မြန်မာပြည်လက်ဝှေ့ချန်ပီယံဟောင်း ရွေဓူဝံ အမြန်လမ်းတွင် ကားမှောက်ကာ သေဆုံး". Myanmar Press Photo Agency. March 4, 2023.
- ^ "အမြန်လမ်းကားမှောက်မှုအတွင်း မြန်မာပြည်လက်ဝှေ့ချန်ပီယံဟောင်း ရွှေဓူဝံလည်း သေဆုံး" [Former Burmese boxing champion Shwe Dhuwan also died in a highway accident]. Delta News Agency. March 4, 2023.
- ^ "အမြန်လမ်း ခရီးသည်တင်ကားတိမ်းမှောက်မှုမှာ လက်ဝှေ့ချန်ပီယံဟောင်း ရွှေဓူဝံဆုံးပါး". Ludun Wayoo (in Burmese). March 4, 2023.
The famous boxer Shwe Du Wun was among the 3 dead
- ^ "ရန်ကုန် – မန္တလေးအမြန်လမ်းတွင် ဒို့ညီနောင်ခရီးသည်တင်ယာဉ်တိမ်းမှောက်၊ လက်ဝှေ့ချန်ပီယံဟောင်း ရွှေဓူဝံအပါအဝင် ၅ ဦးသေဆုံးကာ ၃၀ ခန့်ထိခိုက်ဒဏ်ရာရ". Ayeyarwaddy Times (in Burmese). March 4, 2023.
- ^ "မြန်မာပြည်လက်ဝှေ့ချန်ပီယံဟောင်း ရွေဓူဝံ အမြန်လမ်းတွင် ကားမှောက်ကာ သေဆုံး". Myanmar Load (in Burmese). March 4, 2023.
- ^ Zaw Win ChitZAW (March 4, 2023). "Traffic accident on Yangon-Mandalay Expressway kills three people including former Lethwei champion Shwe Du Wun". Eleven Media Group.