Gurdarshan Mangat – “I think you’re going to see the most dominant version of myself”
Gurdarshan Mangat (16-3) will make his fifth walk to the ONE Championship circle on Friday when he faces Yodkaikaew Fairtex (7-4-1) at ONE: 158 in Singapore.
“I think you’re going to see the most dominant version of myself,” Mangat said ahead of the contest. “I’ve improved everywhere, I’m a well-versed mixed martial artist and I think I’ll be too much for ‘Y2K’ in this fight. You’re going to see someone who’s going to be a serious championship contender in the future.”
Mangat has recorded three victories since coming to ONE, dropping just one fight, a submission loss to Reece McLaren in 2019. “St. Lion” Mangat will need to earn a few wins before getting his crack at gold, but the 35-year-old Canadian mixed martial artist feels that he is on his way to getting that opportunity.
“Whoever is champ of the flyweights is basically the best pound-for-pound guy in ONE Championship,” Mangat said. “I think that is the deepest division in ONE, it’s the toughest, and so [the Champ] is firmly on top of the mountain and I believe that’s where I’m headed.”
Main Card For ONE 158: Tawanchai vs. Larsen
Tawanchai PK.Saenchai vs. Niclas Larsen (Muay Thai – featherweight)
Kwon Won Il vs. Fabricio Andrade (MMA – bantamweight)
Reece McLaren vs. Xie Wei (MMA – flyweight)
Kairat Akhmetov vs. Tatsumitsu Wada (MMA – flyweight)
Rade Opacic vs. Guto Inocente (kickboxing – heavyweight)
Alex Silva vs. Adrian Mattheis (MMA – strawweight)
Lead Card For ONE 158: Tawanchai vs. Larsen
Yodkaikaew Fairtex vs. Gurdarshan Mangat (MMA – flyweight)
Marouan Toutouh vs. Constantin Rusu (kickboxing – lightweight)
Marcus Almeida vs. Simon Carson (MMA – heavyweight)
Odie Delaney vs. Mehdi Barghi (MMA – heavyweight)
Duke Didier vs. Jasur Mirzamukhamedov (MMA – heavyweight)
Jenelyn Olsim vs. Julie Mezabarba (MMA – atomweight)
Kim Kyung Lock vs. Edson Marques (MMA – lightweight)
