Former two-division ONE world champion Martin Nguyen hopes to get the prospect to run again his October 2020 conflict with Thanh Le. This Sunday, January 28, ‘The Situ-Asian’ will return to the Circle when ONE Championship heads to Ariake Area in Tokyo, Japan, for a loaded ONE 165 card.
Trying to earn his manner again into the featherweight world title combine, the Sydney native will meet submission specialist and one-time title challenger Garry Tonon.
With the winner doubtlessly shifting on to face the winner of ONE 166’s showdown between featherweight champ Tang Kai and interim titleholder Thanh Le, Martin Nguyen was requested which he would moderately face throughout an look on the From The Stands podcast.
“For me, who I’d like to see win? I’d like to see kind of Vietnamese people succeed, you know,” Nguyen mentioned. “And I want Thanh Le to win, I want myself to win, and give the fans what they want in that rematch.”
Le scored a vicious third-round knockout of Nguyen at ONE: Inside The Matrix to say the featherweight world championship. ‘The Situ-Asian’ has been chomping on the bit for a rematch ever since.
Can Martin Nguyen choose up the place he left off in his final outing?
Thanh Le efficiently defended the title towards Garry Tonon earlier than struggling a unanimous determination loss to Tang Kai at ONE 160.
Since then, Le earned a stunning first-round submission victory over Ilya Freymanov to solidify his spot because the division’s top-ranked contender.
As for Martin Nguyen, the Vietnamese-Australian fan favourite has struggled to search out the win column in recent times, however ‘The Situ-Asain’ had a real return to type in his final outing towards Leonardo Casotti.
Will Nguyen take out one of many promotion’s most featured grapplers and punch his ticket to a different title combat, or will ‘The Lion Killer’ add one other highlight-reel finish to his resume in The Land of the Rising Solar?
ONE 165 airs reside on Sunday, January 28, by way of global pay-per-view at watch.onefc.com.
