A 31-year-old challenger with a behavior of ending fights early will get a second crack on the title that acquired away from her as soon as earlier than.
Natalia Diachkova challenges two-sport World Champion Stella Hemetsberger for the ONE Girls’s Strawweight Muay Thai World Title in the primary occasion of ONE Combat Evening 46, streaming reside in US primetime this Friday, August 14, from Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium. The Russian opened her ONE Championship run with 4 consecutive wins on the weekly collection to earn a six-figure contract in 2024, three of them by knockout.
Her first World Title alternative didn’t go her means, however two assertion victories since have put her again in line for one more shot. 4 of her six wins below the ONE banner have come by first-round knockout, a ending price that marks her as one of many division’s most explosive strikers, most not too long ago a stoppage of Fahsai Aor Yutthachai at ONE Friday Fights 152 this previous Might.
“For a very long time, I’ve been tortured by injustice. Possibly I imagined it myself, although, however I simply couldn’t clarify some issues to myself. Like, why do I prepare for thus a few years, and I failed psychologically within the title struggle? Why is it all the time this manner,” she mentioned.
Natalia Diachkova brings early finishes to Lumpinee
Hemetsberger has constructed her championship run on five-round composure quite than single knockout moments, closing out each of her title-winning fights towards Jackie Buntan over the total distance. Diachkova’s sport plan operates on the other clock fully.
Whichever high quality wins out on August 14, early knockout energy towards confirmed championship-rounds composure, will determine who leaves Lumpinee Stadium nonetheless holding two-sport gold.
“I spotted that every part that occurred to me was for a cause, and I assume I’m grateful for it. All of the adjustments that must have occurred to me occurred, and now I’m precisely the place I must be,” she mentioned.
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