Tiger Muay Thai
Tiger Muay Thai is a Thai mixed martial arts and muay thai training facility located in Phuket, Thailand. It has several prominent competitors such as UFC champions Petr Yan, Alexander Volkanovski and Valentina Shevchenko. History. William McNamara – an American teaching English in Darasamuth Catholic School – had previously owned a gym in Phuket consisting of only one ring to serve his muay thai training purposes. The gym gained popularity, so with help from investors he founded Tiger Muay Thai in remarkably larger premises in 2003. Subsequently, mixed martial arts program was added to the repertoire by McNamara. Since  2013, the gym has been arranging annual Fight Team tryouts where the best applicants receive scholarships to mixed martial arts and muay thai programs. Among the tryout winners are the gym's MMA head coach-to-be George Hickman, Kai Kara-France, Dan Hooker, Loma Lookboonmee and Casey O'Neill. In 2015, the gym was sold to Thai businessmen and one of them – Viwat Sakulrat – became the managing director of the gym. It has continued to grow and is one of the world's most prominent muay thai gyms. In July 2021, Hickman brothers announced they are leaving the team after  an amicable split. Gyms. While the original Tiger Muay Thai in Chalong, Phuket remains the headquarters, they opened a new facility to San Sai District, Chiang Mai in 2013. In 2019, they opened Tiger Muay Thai Beachside in Chalong.