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Tong Trithara
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Arjarn Tong Trithara is a Thai-born Muay Thai instructor and former Muay Thai boxer. He is known for being one of America's First Muay Thai instructors. He founded the Muay Thai Academy in Springfield, Missouri in 1989 and the Muay Thai U.S.A. Association in the same year as its president. Later, he became the Muay Thai Technical Advisor for Fighter International magazine. Career On May 5, 1971, Tong traveled to the United States to train at the Thai Boxing Academy in Hollywood, California, by a western style boxing and Muay Thai champion named Niyom Prasertsom. In 1979 he moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he began teaching as well as promoting small Muay Thai events until 1985. |
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