Bree Knitter

Fight Record

11-1 Amateur Record
7-0 Professional Record

Achievements

Team USA/IFMA 2021
USMTO & TBA 2021 National Champion
WCE 61kg Title
Glory 88 - Team Van Soest
Team Primo & Phuket Singha Muay Thai Sponsored Athlete
Current WMO #5 professional world ranking (61 kg.)

Gyms/Coaches

WWMT/Vor Hemtanon (2016 - 2017)
Rise Combat - Bunkerd Faphimai (2017 - present)
Ty Sbano (2019 - present)
Santai MT (2018)
MTI/Rangsit (2020)
Phuket Singha MT - Lai Petdam (2021 - present)

Bio

After retiring from volleyball following 4 seasons with the Oregon State Beavers at the Pac-10 D1 level, I spent a few years looking for what would be my next athletic endeavor trying everything from competitive CrossFit to running races and nearly becoming a spin instructor. In 2016, I found Muay Thai when I moved to San Francisco via Groupon. I was hooked from day one and wanted to learn to fight. Six months after starting, I competed in my first smoker and a month later traveled to Phuket, Thailand to have my first Thai fight at Bangla Stadium.

Upon returning to San Francisco, I spent the next 5 years competing and training under Lumpinee and Rajadamnern Champion, Bunkerd Faphimai at Fight & Fitness/Rise Combat Sports. During that time I continued to take annual pilgrimages to Thailand to train and was saving money working a corporate sales job in order to achieve my ultimate goal of moving to Thailand. Finally, in January 2020, I took the plunge, quit my job and moved to Bangkok.

With the onset of the pandemic and Muay Thai shutting down worldwide, I moved back to SF later in 2020, where I continued to train with Bunkerd in his backyard and began sharpening my kickboxing and boxing skills with Ty Sbano and Bubba Holland. During this time, I managed Rise Combat Gym and taught private Muay Thai and Strength & Conditioning lessons in order to keep myself afloat.

Finally, I was able to return to Thailand in September 2021, and have been here ever since training at Phuket Singha Muay Thai and making fighting my full-time job.