Stella Hemetsberger was on cloud 9 after getting her arms on the ONE girls’s strawweight Muay Thai world title after an epic slugfest towards Jackie Buntan at ONE Struggle Evening 35 final September.
However being the perfectionist she is, the 26-year-old striker concedes she nonetheless sees loads of holes and flaws that may be addressed to additional improve her world-class hanging arsenal.
In an interview with ONE Championship, the RS-GYM and Phuket Struggle Membership martial artist declared that her world title win has not made her go simple on herself throughout coaching.
If something, she’s coaching with renewed motivation after beating the seemingly unstoppable Filipino-American standout inside Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium final 12 months.
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“That mentioned, for me, in each one in all my fights, I at all times see room for enchancment. So, I’m going to maintain on working to placed on a greater efficiency within the subsequent fights that I’ll have,” the Salzburg native instructed the promotion.
Hemetsberger entered her world title combat towards Buntan as an underdog. However because the combat wore on, it was clear that the Austrian had finished sufficient to seal the victory.
After 5 rounds of an entertaining conflict, during which she scored two knockdowns within the opening spherical, Stella Hemetsberger earned a unanimous resolution and walked out of the Mecca of Muay Thai because the newly topped strawweight Muay Thai queen.
Stella Hemetsberger hopes to make it 2-0 towards Buntan at ONE Struggle Evening 40
In barely greater than a month, Stella Hemetsbeger will lace the four-ounce gloves to cross paths with Buntan for the second time beneath the ONE highlight.
The Salzburg native runs it again towards the Boxing Works athlete, this time for the latter’s ONE strawweight kickboxing world title.
A victory for Stella Hemetsberger will enable her to get 2026 off to a bang as a two-sport world champion.
Nonetheless, Buntan’s need for revenge is second to none, and the Filipino-American can be out to even the collection once they conflict in the primary occasion of ONE Struggle Evening 40 on Friday, February 13.
North American followers with an lively Amazon Prime Video subscription can catch all the card dwell in U.S. primetime at no cost. The cardboard emanates dwell from the legendary Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
Edited by Saiyed Adeem Karim
