Rodtang might have simply had his final combat inside the ONE Circle and the ONE Championship star is seemingly attempting to enter free company with some shade being thrown at him from ONE’s promoter, to make use of the parlance of our time.
Takeru completed Rodtang in a rematch that noticed the previous even up the sequence towards the latter with a fifth spherical end that noticed Takeru retire by claiming the ONE interim flyweight kickboxing title at ONE Samurai 1. Whereas there was lots of construct round this being Takeru’s swan music, lots of the pre-fight focus was on heated public contract disputes with Rodtang and ONE with each events reaching a tentative truce lower than two weeks out from this huge matchup.
Rodtang maintains that he has the flexibility to navigate free company now whereas conversely, ONE has maintained that they’ve a clause that permits them to have a twelve month matching interval to doubtlessly safe a brand new contractual settlement with the adorned Muay Thai champion. The thinly veiled dig on the estranged Thailand-based celebrity got here after ONE’s promoter Chatri Sityodtong was heaping reward on Jonathan Haggerty who additionally earned a giant win on April twenty ninth at Ariake Enviornment in Tokyo.
ONE Championship figurehead Chatri Sityodtong spoke on this on the post-event press convention as he lauded Haggerty’s total physique of labor within the wake of the Englishman retaining his ONE bantamweight kickboxing crown towards Yuki Yoza, Sityodtong mentioned [via Nick Atkin on X],
“I like Jonathan [Haggerty] and I’ll assist him… He needs to be a 3 sport world champion, that may clearly be unimaginable. If he might do it concurrently, that may be much more unimaginable, who is aware of? He has a lot expertise and what’s so spectacular about Jonathan is that he has at all times maintained his humility all through this complete journey and his exhausting work ethic. Everybody is aware of Jonathan works exhausting, he ranges up, he’s humble.”
Rodtang seemingly cited as “an instance” in derisive method by sityodtong amid contract dispute
With out naming Rodtang particularly however seemingly casting aspersions on the former opponent of Haggerty, Sityodtong continued,
“He [Jonathan Haggerty] surrounds himself with the perfect coaches and teammates. That’s one thing that; I believe we noticed what occurs if you make some huge cash and fame will get to your head. You cease coaching and also you don’t have a staff round you. We noticed an instance tonight, proper. Being the perfect on the earth on the earth’s largest martial arts group will not be a simple factor and staying the perfect, staying on high is even tougher.”
