Go, Leaping Frog!

Angela Lee is hot, too.

The lady is a BOKATOR FIGHTER
29 June 2018

Success is a simple, easy word. But a successful person knows that it requires perseverance, patience and rising up from challenges to be called such – things most of us are scared of. But it’s different for Oum Sam Tharoth. She has overcome punches and kicks to make herself worthy to be called a Bokator fighter, the first woman Bokator fighter at that. The 27-year-old Bokator and martial arts stalwart reveals her story to Say Tola...
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50506074/t ... r-fighter/

Dog forbid a respectable Khmer woman would look like a woman and be proud to raise children and run a household.

We can't have people believing that a woman is the best mother or household manager, we have to make everyone believe a housewife is a shitty job any idiot could do.

Nah, only the Demo-rabid concept of women being masters is acceptable. The goal is not equality, the goal is male subservience.

How's that working out for the west, btw?

^how about a person, female or otherwise, just feel free to choose whatever path they want to follow; be that housewife or boxer/wrestler (female) or househusband/nurse (male)?


And while the goal for some may be male subservience, it damn well isn't for me. Stop whinging like a subservient female, that genius xx

Plus Sam Tharoth packages up feminine and tomboy in a very successful way. Have you seen her in an evening dress and doting over elder family members? I love her sryle.

suffragettes never burnt bras

Not female but did anyone catch the main event of the OneFC last night. What a fight!!!! One of the better MMA fights I have seen this year out of any promotion. Both fighters left it all in the octagon with a great KO to end the fight.

Sweet Savage’: Long Beach MMA fighter reconnects with her Cambodian heritage
Crystal Niebla
Feb 21 9:00 am

Long before she was schooled in the art of knocking someone out, Sovannahry Em was taught to take life as it comes; bullying, domestic conflict, didn’t matter. She was to handle situations, to never be sad or angry, never be anything but well-mannered.

But not now. Not when she’s home in California and certainly not recently when she found herself in a cage in Singapore. Now, Sovannahry Em fights.

They call her the “Sweet Savage”—every professional fighter needs a nickname—and the latter half of the moniker was definitely on display in Singapore, on Jan. 29. She cut down her taller, heavier South Korean opponent, Choi Jeung Yun, a skilled kickboxer, pinned her torso and right arm to the mat and pummeled her face with left hooks that were equal parts precise and ferocious until the referee had no choice but to declare Em, 28, the winner by technical knockout.

Surrounded by empty seats, he raised the arm of the Cambodian American from Long Beach, declaring her the winner of this ONE Championship match—ONE being the largest Asian combat sport organization in the world.

“Man,” she said, catching her breath and flashing the smile that accounts for the “Sweet” of her nickname, “that was a lot harder than I thought it was gonna be.”

She could say the same about life. Though this match marked her second victory for the organization on her journey to become a World ONE Champion, she says her main goal remains to reconnect with her Cambodian heritage while becoming a role model for girls and women, particularly those living in Cambodia, who might not feel confident enough to stand up for themselves.

“There’s too much of a culture of women being quiet,” Em said. “We live in such a society that violence toward women is not so uncommon.”

Her remedy, she says, is simple: Every woman should know how to fight.

She is not talking about marching or calling your member of Congress; she believes every woman should know how to curl up her fist and defend herself.
https://lbpost.com/sports/sweet-savage- ... n-heritage

Nou Sreypov: From the factory to int’l boxing challenger
| Publication date 04 April 2022 | 20:34 ICT


Just a decade ago, Nou Sreypov was just one of the close to one million Cambodian women who toil away for long hours at a garment factory.

But then her determination to succeed in life saw her take a different path, after just a year in one of the many factories situated in Phnom Penh.

Sreypov’s decision to take the martial art of Kun Khmer seriously has not only changed her entire life, but also installed her as one of Cambodia’s superstars of the sport.

The 27-year old comes from a family of fighters and followed in their footsteps by taking up Kun Khmer.

Since her first bout at the age of 13, she has progressed to become Cambodia’s leading female Kun Khmer fighter – with close to 100 wins to her name.

Her prowess in the ring has made her a household name in Cambodia, and now her Kun Khmer experience and foundation has brought her to another chapter in her flourishing martial arts career.

Sreypov has been named in the Cambodian kick boxing squad for the 31st South East Asian (SEA) Games in Vietnam, where she will compete in the 52kg category.

Prior to her kick boxing debut at the SEA Games, she will compete at the Angkor King Fight in Siem Reap, where she will face the might of China’s Li Li Shan in the kick boxing competition on April 10.

“I’m thrilled to get a chance to fight in this big event,” said Sreypov.

“This event will be my warm-up fight ahead of the SEA Games in Vietnam. It will be a great opportunity for me. I expect it to be a tough challenge as my opponent is very strong, but it will be a good experience for me.”

While she is making her debut in the kick-boxing competition at the SEA Games, it would not be her first taste of action at the multi-sport Games.

Three years ago, she competed in the boxing competition at the Manila SEA Games. She won a bronze in Manila in the women’s flyweight (51kg). She defeated Myanmar’s Nelly 5-0 in the quarter-finals but was stopped by eventual champion Nguyen Thi Tham of Vietnam in the semi-finals.

Sreypov’s talent does not stop at Kun Khmer, kickboxing and boxing alone, as she is also a mixed martial arts (MMA) exponent. She has a record of one win and two losses in the prestigious ONE Championship.

Sreypov made her One Championship debut in 2019 by defeating Thai superstar Rika Ishige in Bangkok. The World Lethwei Championship also named her “Female Fighter of the Year” in 2018. She also won the Kun Khmer Championship that year.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/sport/nou ... challenger

MMA fighters can also suffer from depression. Champion Angela Lee speaks out:

'Your story matters': MMA fighter Angela Lee opens up on new initiative, suicide attempt and sister Victoria’s death
In her first interview in Singapore since Victoria’s death, ONE Championship titleholder Angela Lee talks about her non-profit organisation Fightstory, which aims to help people with their mental health.
Michael Yong
26 Sep 2023 07:53PM

SINGAPORE: “The feeling of missing her doesn’t go away. That’s the hardest part – I don’t think that will ever fully go away.”

For mixed martial arts (MMA) champion Angela Lee, the pain of losing her younger sister Victoria remains raw. Aged 18, Victoria took her own life on Dec 26, 2022.

Mental health is a subject close to Lee's heart. Last week, the 27-year-old revealed that her car crash in Hawaii in 2017 was a suicide attempt and not an accident.

Speaking to CNA during her first trip back to Singapore since Victoria’s death, she opened up about her younger sister, her own dark moments six years ago and how they spurred her to set up non-profit organisation Fightstory to help people with their mental health.
Full article: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sport/a ... ry-3799366