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Ribhalang Sunn
An amateur circuit between Shillong and Guwahati
Ribhalang Sunn won amateur gold in Guwahati, beat Violina Barman in Shillong and returned to Guwahati for an atomweight title. Her competition has taken her back and forth across the Assam border.
Ribhalang Sunn’s recent competition history runs between Shillong and Guwahati. In Guwahati, she won a 48 kg amateur gold in December 2024 and an atomweight title in January 2026. Between those trips, she beat Violina Barman by unanimous decision at the Shillong Cage Fighting Championship, fighting on a card that also featured two of her Happy Red Rooster teammates.
Her first of those away medals came at the fourth All Assam Amateur MMA Championship, held at Borbari in Guwahati on 7 and 8 December 2024. Meghalaya Monitor named Sunn as the 48 kg gold medallist and teammate Shailang Lamurong as the winner at 55 kg. Angtang Shadap took silver at 61 kg and Kaushik Dey bronze at 57 kg, giving the Shillong team four medals. The report did not name Sunn’s opponents or supply a bracket.
The gym sending that team to Guwahati had opened in June 2016. In an August 2024 feature, Meghalaya Monitor described Happy Red Rooster’s jiu-jitsu-based approach to MMA and its mix of competitive athletes, recreational students and older beginners. It named jiu-jitsu coaches Reuben LC Lulam and Isaiah Kharmawphlang, wrestling coach Echwa Phawa and MMA coach Darren Kharshandy.
“The dojo has become a place to socialise and meet people of all age groups and from different walks of life,” Kharmawphlang told the newspaper. Sunn’s competition trips came out of a gym that welcomed people whose ambitions extended from learning a new skill to fighting for titles.
By June 2025, she was competing at home. The Shillong Cage Fighting Championship took place on 28 June at the Lariti venue in Mawkasiang, with fighters from Meghalaya and five other states. Meghalaya Monitor’s account lists Sunn as the atomweight winner, identifies Barman as her opponent in its photograph caption, and records wins for gym colleagues Kharshandy at bantamweight and Ronald Khyriem at strawweight.
Sherdog’s event record supplies the result: Sunn, listed there as Sun, won a unanimous decision after three three-minute rounds. Her individual history classifies the bout as amateur. The newspaper reported a strong turnout despite the late timing, journey to the venue and ticket prices.
Guwahati was the destination again the following January. At the DFL MMA National Tournament on 10 and 11 January 2026, Sunn won the female atomweight title belt, according to Meghalaya Monitor’s report. Happy Red Rooster teammate Angtang Kro Shadap was named the tournament’s best fighter, Jayden won junior gold and Ronnie Thabah took welterweight silver. Sunn’s opponents, methods and the classification of her DFL bouts were not supplied in the report.
A later result appears in Dipanjali Mishra’s Sherdog history: a unanimous-decision loss to Ribhalang Sun at Meghalaya Cage Fight 1 on 6 March 2026, listed as an amateur contest over three three-minute rounds. We have found no independent report confirming that entry.
The Sun and Sunn spellings both appear in public coverage; her preferred spelling has not yet been confirmed. Local reporting places her at Happy Red Rooster through January 2026, without establishing her current training arrangements. What those accounts do preserve is a sequence of shared gym trips and individual wins: an away gold, a full-distance victory in Shillong, then another title in Guwahati.
The competitive history
Selected results.
Selected public results only; no complete win-loss total is claimed. Sources vary between Sun and Sunn. The January 2026 DFL report does not supply a bracket or classification; the March 2026 result currently has database support only.
Corroborated results have support from at least two linked sources. Reported results have one source or only partial confirmation. Notes explain any unresolved details.
- Amateur MMA
Meghalaya Cage Fight 1
Opponent: Dipanjali Mishra
winunanimous decision, round 3 (3:00)
- Classification unresolved
DFL MMA National Tournament, Guwahati
female atomweight title beltThe report records the title, but does not give a bout-by-bout bracket, opponents or methods.
- Amateur MMA
Shillong Cage Fighting Championship
atomweight
Opponent: Violina Barman
winunanimous decision, round 3 (3:00)
- Amateur MMA
4th All Assam Amateur MMA Championship, Borbari, Guwahati
48 kg gold
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Sources & reporting.
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