{"id":193978,"date":"2025-10-12T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193978\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:39:08","slug":"mikey-broadley-muay-thai-sensation-headed-to-wbc-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193978\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Broadley: Muay Thai sensation headed to WBC convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Teen fighter Mikey will represent his country<\/a> at the world’s first WBC Muay Thai convention in Asia from November 30 until December 5.\n<\/p>\n

\n He is only one of 40 competitors heading to Bangkok to compete on the world stage.\n<\/p>\n

\n Three time world champion Mikey Broadley is headed back to Scotland(Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n

\n And he’s promised to give it his all in front of some famous names in order to bring yet another trophy back to Inverclyde<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n He told the Tele: “It\u2019s an absolute honour to have been selected to fight for the first ever WBC Muay Thai convention.\n<\/p>\n

\n “It\u2019s never happened before, so it\u2019s history in the making.\n<\/p>\n

\n “There are only 40 people selected in the world, so it\u2019s huge for me. The biggest stage I\u2019ve ever fought.\n<\/p>\n

\n “There are so many famous boxers there who\u2019ll be attending. I\u2019ll put on the performance of my life and bring that trophy back to Scotland!\n<\/p>\n

\n (Image: George Munro)\n<\/p>\n

\n “It\u2019s a four-man tournament and I have tough countries in my section, in the form of fighters from Thailand, Australia and Suriname.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I missed out on fighting for my ISKA British because my weight has increased.\n<\/p>\n

\n “One of the tricky things about being a junior fighter is that you physically grow and then weigh more.\n<\/p>\n

\n “These things happen but the silver lining was the day after I was supposed to fight for the ISKA title, I got an e-mail from Kevin Noone, general secretary of WBC, inviting me to fight in Thailand at the convention in my new higher weight bracket.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I guess you could say that everything happens for a reason.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I\u2019m so grateful to Kevin and the WBC for giving me this amazing opportunity.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I can\u2019t wait to get back over to Thailand for what will be my third time this year.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Broadley is looking to add to his ever-growing belt collection(Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n

\n Mikey’s mum, Ashley, couldn’t be prouder of her son’s achievements as he continues to go from strength to strength in the mixed martial arts world.\n<\/p>\n

\n She believes that Mikey has devoted his life to the craft and the reward of
being called up to represent his country is an honour as he prepares for the first ever convention of its kind.\n<\/p>\n

\n She added: “Mikey\u2019s had a fantastic year. He\u2019s so committed and trains really hard. Muay Thai is his life.\n<\/p>\n

\n “He already has three world titles, two European, USA and Welsh titles, as well as a Scottish title, but this convention in Thailand is really special to him.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Being selected to represent Scotland for WBC is something he\u2019s so honoured to do.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Every time he steps into that ring on the international stage he has his Scottish flag draped around him with pride.\n<\/p>\n

\n “He loves bringing the titles home to Scotland.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teen fighter Mikey will represent his country at the world’s first WBC Muay Thai convention in Asia from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-193978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}