The 2-sport world title dream of Jonathan Haggerty lastly materialized after he knocked out Fabricio Andrade within the second spherical of their ONE bantamweight kickboxing world title match in the principle occasion of ONE Battle Night time 16 on November 3.
Haggerty made Andrade appear like an newbie together with his dominant show of hanging method that floored him within the hallowed ring of the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. Due to that historic win, he turned the fifth athlete in ONE Championship historical past to concurrently maintain two world titles in two totally different sports activities.
Haggerty now holds the ONE bantamweight Muay Thai and kickboxing world titles.
This triumph by ‘The Normal’ has opened extra alternatives and potentialities for him, as he can now choose his subsequent challenger from each the Muay Thai and kickboxing rulesets to defend both of his titles whereas additionally having the posh of traversing MMA and doubtlessly trying to find a 3rd world title belt.
As an alternative of instantly teasing everybody with an inventory of potential subsequent opponents for the 26-year-old double world champion, ONE Championship requested the followers from all around the world who he ought to face subsequent after the unbelievable efficiency.
They posted an Instagram submit on November 7, 2023, with the caption:
“ONE’s latest two-sport titleholder desires to remain busy 💯 What’s on the horizon for Jonathan Haggerty? @jhaggerty_”
Followers had been fast to enter their dream matchup for the British fight sports activities famous person and let their creativeness take over of their feedback with the absolute best opponent for Haggerty. Instagram customers @_claudio_curci, @eggcept, @tings_n_that, @senselessson, @simdog13, @timebombtonna, @rloading___, @yuzayie, and @duenay_soe_jota77 talked about a number of high names to pit in opposition to the Londoner as they commented:
“Completely different opponents similar end result … the final will beat all of them”
“Simply wanna see him knock out Harrison.”
“Nong o rematch to cement his legacy”
“Akimoto o Nong-O”
“Superlek could be unreal!”
“Tremendous combat with @k1takeru”
“He gonna go along with Andrade’s mma belt”
“Muay Thai ought to combat nong o. Kickboxing hiroki”
“Rodtang!”
Screenshot of followers’ feedback about Jonathan Haggerty
The followers’ sentiments and pulse will probably be thought-about by the world’s largest martial arts group when choosing the subsequent opponent for Haggerty, however no matter their determination, notably the matchmakers, it should certainly be one other super-fight within the making as a result of, in any case, ONE Championship homes the very best strikers on the earth right now.
The replay of ONE Battle Night time 16 is out there anytime on demand for Amazon Prime Video subscribers in North America.