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 the help of 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 Kai Kara-France, Dan Hooker, Dave Leduc, 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, MMA coaches George and Frank Hickman announced they were leaving the team after an amicable split. In April 2022, they opened their own gym called Bangtao Muay Thai & MMA which trained UFC champions such as Alexander Volkanovski, Jiří Procházka and Zhang Weili.

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.

In 2023, Tiger Muay Thai is set to open a new location in Bali, Indonesia.

Notable fighters
UFC Featherweight Champion
 * Anatoly Malykhin, Current ONE Middleweight, Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight World Champion
 * Fabrício Andrade, Current ONE Bantamweight World Champion
 * Petr Yan, a Former UFC Bantamweight Champion
 * Tang Kai, Current ONE Featherweight World Champion
 * Vitaly Bigdash, a Former ONE Middleweight World Champion
 * Israel Adesanya, former 2-time UFC Middleweight Champion
 * Alexander Volkanovski, former
 * Valentina Shevchenko, a former UFC Women's Flyweight Champion
 * Antonina Shevchenko
 * Dan Hooker
 * Rafael Fiziev
 * Tai Tuivasa
 * Arman Tsarukyan
 * Loma Lookboonmee, the first Thai mixed martial artist in the UFC
 * Shannon Wiratchai
 * Roger Huerta
 * Cyrus Washington
 * Brad Riddell
 * Kai Kara-France
 * Timofey Nastyukhin
 * Dave Leduc, a Canadian Lethwei fighter and a WLC Cruiserweight Champion
 * Anissa Meksen, a French kickboxer and Former Glory Women's Super Bantamweight Champion
 * Mairbek Taisumov
 * Alexey Kunchenko
 * Khamzat Chimaev
 * Kairat Akhmetov, a Former ONE Flyweight World Champion