Dave Leduc

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 against an inmate 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. Leduc married Moldovan model Irina Terehova in a nationally televised traditional Burmese wedding ceremony in Yangon watched by 30 million viewers in Myanmar and became a superstar celebrity in the country. He is the biggest star in the sport of Lethwei and has been described as cultural phenomenon in Myanmar. Leduc headlined the two biggest combat events in Myanmar and Cambodia's history, with the Lethwei trilogy fight vs. Tun Tun Min in Myanmar and the Kun Khmer match vs. Prom Samnang in Cambodia, which Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Manet described as having contributed to strengthening the ties of friendship between Cambodia and Myanmar.