- I'm Rebekah Irwin.
I'm 17, right?
Stop!
Shut up, no I didn't.
I'm Rebekah Irwin, I'm 17 years old.
I'm a junior at Florida High School.
I started training just Muay Thai
about three and a half years ago.
- Rebekah being only 17 years old is,
you know, she's already accomplished what a lot of people
have not, you know, adults have accomplished.
She's won the IFMA World Championships twice.
She's got a gold medal.
She's, you know, fought Thailand's Fighter of the Year.
She, you know, lost controversially to her.
I thought, you know, she might of barely got edged,
but she, you know, put the girl out
where she's not been able to fight since then.
It's been over six months.
She had to have surgery and everything for her nose
but she's a really tough fighter
and, you know, the sky's the limit.
At 17, doing what she's doing.
She already has eight fights in Thailand,
it's a big accomplishment.
- I feel like I'm good, I'm like really good
but I don't wanna put myself out there
as cocky and all talk you know?
I'd rather show it in the ring, you know?
I mean, I feel like I've proved myself,
like my skill level and everything.
I'm one of the best for my age, weight, everything,
and I'm still progressing.
So I feel like I have to get even better than I am now
and I feel like when I do that, when I reach my peak,
I don't think anybody will be able to beat me
but there is still that chance you can get caught, you know?
- It's really hard to get Bekah and Tierra,
who's gonna be joining her on the strip fights,
they're both super high-level,
both open class, which means they have 10 or more fights,
both have fought in Thailand like six or seven times
so back home in the US it's really hard to get em fights.
This is why we gotta fly over to Thailand
and get em matched up.
Just arrived in Chiang Mai.
It's six in the morning.
Been doing like 24 hours of traveling
and somebody's gonna go run.
- I don't wanna go run.
- [Michael] You will run.
I'm just curious, what do you do right now--
- Text. - On your phone?
Text who?
It's like two in the morning!
- Just my friend!
Is it?
No, it's not.
No. Yeah.
I don't know my people kinda stay up late, so...
- [Michael] What kinda people do you deal with?
- Just my friends.
- Hello.
Yes.
All right!
- That's good?
- [Michael] Yeah, it's 53 kilos.
- Really, I only have time for like, school
and then the gym.
So that's been since December.
All my time has really been focused on training.
- [Michael] What about your dog, Buddy?
- I freakin love my dog, Buddy.
- [Michael] But what do you do, do you like take him out,
or do you just--
- I cuddle with my dog.
- [Woman] What about you guys and chocolate?
That seems to be--
- It is fantastic.
- Oh my God.
- Today, it's fight day.
Right now we're getting our stuff ready.
We're gonna head over to the venue at like 6:35.
I feel great about the fight.
I think I fixed everything that I had wrong my last fight
I think this chick doesn't stand a chance.
If they wanna rematch, the chick that I lost to
I don't think she'll stand a chance.
I think everybody's gonna die.
- It's like, in Bangkok.
- I'll be swinging it.
- [Michael] Ready?
You fight in like, three hours, four hours, five hours.
- No!
- [Announcer] In the red corner is Nom-ei Sep-pre-te
from Poland!
And in the blue corner is
Rebekah Irwin from USA!
- [Trainer] Go!
Hey!
Lean forward.
Yes.
- [Man] Lean forward, lean forward!
- [Michael] At the rate she's going,
she could be probably one of the most successful
US Muay Thai fighters of all time.
- I want titles, I want the experience, I want challenges.
Winning means more to me than them.