‘The Burmese Python’ Aung La N Sang is happy concerning the alternative to compete towards one other Asian MMA legend in Japanese star Yushin ‘Thunder’ Okami.
In an interview with ONE Championship forward of his highly-anticipated return at ONE 163 on November 19, Aung La shared his enthusiasm about going through a legendary fighter that he himself watched as a fan:
“He’s one of many Asian combined martial artists I regarded as much as within the final 10 years and he’s fought in several high-level organizations, so he’s an important one to check myself with.”
Aung La N Sang is taking his first step in direction of reclaiming the glory he as soon as had beneath the ONE Championship banner. At his peak, ‘The Burmese Python’ held each the ONE middleweight and lightweight heavyweight world titles amidst a seven-fight win streak that featured notable wins over Vitaly Bigdash, Alain Ngalani, and Brandon Vera.
His dominating streak was snapped in 2020 when ‘The Dutch Knight’ Reinier de Ridder took his middleweight crown. De Ridder then continued his mastery of ‘The Burmese Python’ in 2021, taking the sunshine heavyweight crown as nicely.
Aung La bounced again with a first-round knockout of Leandro Ataides, however his lone look in 2022 to this point put him again into the loss column with a third-round knockout defeat towards former middleweight world champion Vitaly Bigdash.
Aung La N Sang anticipates having struggles towards Yushin Okami at ONE 163
Aung La N Sang expects one other robust matchup for himself when he competes towards tenured Japanese MMA legend Yushin Okami at ONE 163 in lower than two weeks’ time.
Discussing how the 2 stars will match up towards each other, ‘The Burmese Python’ recommended that Okami’s size and grappling expertise will show to be problematic:
“Stylistically, I believe he’s problematic for me. He’s longer and he has extra vary as a grappler, and that’s the form of battle that I’ve issues with. And so that is stylistically, for him, matchup, and for me, I really feel prefer it’s matchup too.”
Each fighters will enter the bout in determined want of a win.
Going 1-3 in his final 4 bouts, Aung La N Sang should safe a victory with the intention to keep related within the ONE Championship world title image. In the meantime, Okami was victorious in his final outing, however that was greater than three years in the past and he’s presently 1-2 contained in the circle.