The 10 Best Female Muay Thai Fighters

Muay Thai: the art of eight limbs. Muay Thai fighters are some of the toughest combat sports athletes in the world because of the sheer brutality of their sport. They are able to use kicks, knees, elbows and punches, and because of this, Muay Thai bouts often deliver spectacular knockouts.

During training, Muay Thai fighters have a focus on strengthening their shins in order to help with kicking power and also helping them to check leg kicks. Additionally, you may see Muay Thai fighters strengthening their forearms to help their block strength as well.

Here is our list of the 10 best female Muay Thai fighters of all time…

10. Yolanda Schmidt

Yolanda Schmidt is one of the best Muay Thai fighters to come out of South Africa. She has the typical explosive style which produces vicious performances. Schmidt has won several tournaments and titles on the global scale. 

9. Allyca Rodrigues

Allyca Rodrigues has been at the top of the game in ONE Championship. She has won the Atomweight title, the super-flyweight title and the strawweight title. The Brazilian has achieved all of this at just 26-years-old.

8. Lommanee W. Santai

Lommanee W. Santai is an absolute monster from close range, specialising in the Thai clinch in which she focuses on landing brutal elbows which slice her opponents’ face open. Santai is regarded as one of the most technical fighters in the sport of Muay Thai.

7. Irene Martens

Irene Martens is the first of a few European's to appear on this list. Martens, a Spanish native but has spent several years training in Thailand, she has won several titles in Europe, and her time training and fighting in Thailand helped sharpen her technique.

6. Anissa Meksen

Born in France, Anissa Meksen is one of the most experienced campaigners across Muay Thai and kickboxing, having racked up 110 fights and only 7 losses. Meksen has won six Muay Thai titles and tournaments to go alongside her Glory super-bantamweight title.

5. Joanna Jedrzejczyk 

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We couldn't do a top ten best female Muay Thai fighters of all time without including one of the best female MMA fighters ever, Joanna Jedrzejczyk. The Polish fighter held several Muay Thai accolades before transitioning to MMA and becoming the best female strawweight fighter of all time in the UFC.

Jedrzejczyk's style of fighting helped bring more eyes onto the female divisions.

4. Yodcherry Sityodtong

Yodcherry Sityodtong is a typical Thailand-born Muay Thai fighter. She carries extraordinary knockout power, and this is mainly generated from having exceptional technique.

She won multiple titles in the sport and had amassed over 100 fights at the age of just 19.

3. Sawsing Sor Sopit

Sawsing Sor Sopit has won several national titles in her birth country of Thailand, and she's also won titles on the world stage as well. Sor Sopit doesn't just have great technique in her striking, she is known for her toughness having lost only 30 times in over 200 kickboxing and Muay Thai bouts.

2. Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu

Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu has won over ten titles as a Muay Thai fighter, and she's the only fighter on this list from America. Yet, that has not stopped her from becoming one of the best female Muay Thai fighters of all time. 

The 41-year-old has accumulated over 270 fights in her career, winning 185 of them, and she has never once been stopped, making her one of the toughest fighters ever.

1. Stamp Fairtex

At just 26-years-old, Stamp Fairtex has achieved ridiculous things across Muay Thai and MMA. Firstly, as a Muay Thai fighter, she won the Atomweight title in ONE as a Muay Thai fighter, she's won the Atomweight title in ONE as a kickboxer, and she's won the Atomweight title in ONE as an MMA fighter.

After recording 64 wins, 17 losses and 5 draws in Muay Thai and kickboxing, Fairtex has now transitioned to MMA, where she is 11-2 and is the current ONE Championship Atomweight title holder.