Muay Thai

Ottawa’s biggest Muay Thai event returns to the Canadian War Museum for its fourth installment on February 29. Some of North America’s best fighters will square off in the LeBreton Gallery for one of Ottawa’s most popular combat sports events.

Now, let’s say you haven’t been to a combat sports—let alone a Muay Thai—event. Here’s why your first should be Art of War III.

Helen Lam: “On fight nights, an ecosystem grows around the action in the Thai boxing ring. The hall is a controlled chaos governed by the ebbs and flows of events on the roped platform.”