Reigning ONE strawweight kickboxing world champion Jonathan Di Bella at all times sees himself because the underdog.
This Friday evening, Di Bella will return to ONE Championship a 12 months faraway from his spectacular world-title-winning efficiency towards ‘Preventing Rooster’ Zhang Peimian at ONE 162. This time, the Canadian-Italian titleholder will put his 26 kilos of gold on the road as he meets one of many promotion’s most harmful and versatile strikers, Danial Williams.
Regardless of going into the bout as a world champion, Jonathan Di Bella maintains the mentality of an underdog, particularly when going through an opponent like Williams who has a definite benefit in general expertise.
“In my mindset, each struggle I’m going by, even now, in my thoughts, I am nonetheless going to be the underdog,” Di Bella advised ONE Championship. “The goal is on my again. However I really feel like all people else has extra expertise than me they usually have extra fights than me, so I am at all times going to be the underdog.
“And that is how I’ll be, chasing them like I am going after their belt. Each time I struggle now after I defend it, I am considering in my head that it is vacant and he has the belt and go for it. It simply helps me higher. It simply makes me higher.”
Jonathan Di Bella is ideal in his fight sports activities profession to date, scoring 11 straight wins. In the meantime, Danial Williams goes into his newest title alternative with greater than 40 profession fights below his belt, six of these coming below the ONE Championship banner.
Will that benefit in expertise be the distinction maker at ONE Combat Evening 15?
Amazon Prime Video subscribers in North America can catch all of the motion at ONE Combat Evening 15: Le vs. Freymanov on Prime Video dwell and without spending a dime in U.S. primetime on October 6.