"Valor does not wait for the number of years", wrote Pierre Corneille in 1636. Has the young French fighter Assia Miri read
Le Cid
?
In any case, she does honor to this verse since at just 19 years old, she is already twice world champion and 10 times French champion in Thai boxing!
An early success that she now intends to extend to MMA, this complete combat sport combining many combat techniques...
"Thai boxing, it was getting a bit monotonous..."
If she practiced gymnastics from the age of 6, the young girl quickly came to boxing, the teaching of which she observed “through a small window” which adjoined her place of training.
But after years of Thai boxing, “it became a bit monotonous, says Assia.
I always met the same opponents, so I needed a new challenge”.
Before entering the ring, this small size explains the differences between his old and his new discipline: “In Thai boxing, we use the fists, the elbows, the knees and we stop the blows standing up.
While in MMA, we use ground strikes, there are submissions and a lot of wrestling phases, we can also "search below the belt", etc.
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Witness his very first MMA fight in this video from our partner Brut.
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