“I am all in on martial arts, however I can actually do no matter I need”
Former ONE featherweight world champion Thanh Le has all the time been a fighter with one eye set on the longer term.
While that’s often in relation to weighing up his subsequent problem within the Circle, Thanh Le can be very acutely aware of his profession within the sport and what’s going to come after.
In an interview with From The Stands MMA, Le spoke about campaigning for a rematch with Tang Kai who defeated him for the featherweight title in August. Le additionally mentioned his present state of affairs away from competitors:
“That is purely based mostly on how I really feel, as a result of there is a profit to how I personally have approached the sport, it is like, I am all in on martial arts, however I can actually do no matter I need. So far as being a profitable human, I am not saying I will be nice at all the things, I am simply saying that I may do what I need. I’ve had company jobs, I’ve had gross sales jobs, and I am good at these. And I actually like martial arts, I actually like educating and training like I can do a bunch of various issues. So I haven’t got to combat to help my household. As a result of everyone knows, that is my primary precedence, to maintain the folks round me. So I can try this in some ways. I actually like preventing, and I am fairly good at it in order that’s the trail proper now.”
He added:
“If I get up tomorrow morning, and I am like, man, I do not wish to prepare extra. I do not wish to combat or I simply do not have the identical want to get it, I am going to give up tomorrow. None of that bothers me.”
Watch the total interview with Thanh Le beneath:
“It did throw a bit monkey wrench within the state of affairs” – Thanh Le says Tang Kai’s fashion threw him off
After a quick time away from the highlight, former ONE featherweight world champion Thanh Le has spoken about his loss to Tang Kai in August. Le misplaced his world championship to the rising Chinese language star in a combat the place Tang dominated the vast majority of the competition after beginning robust within the opening spherical.
In the identical interview with From the Stands MMA, the Vietnamese-American admitted that his challenger threw him off proper from the beginning of their combat along with his fashion. With a transparent technique which he caught to for all 5 rounds, Tang Kai managed to unsettle Thanh Le’s offense. Le believes he has now learnt from this with a purpose to make the precise changes earlier than moving into the Circle for a rematch:
“He hardly took a step ahead, so it did throw a bit monkey wrench within the state of affairs it created however clearly, subsequent time we go together with him, we steer clear of his harmful weapons, that are going to be the identical ones. His lead left hook, his lead left kick, these are all very, very harmful weapons. He is superb, sharp with these. And he is received good timing with these issues. And we wish to be certain our entries, our approaches, and the way in which we shut distance will not enable him to do what he does finest.”
