A rivalry that when outlined a whole division might not get its anticipated third chapter in any case.
Stella Hemetsberger retained her ONE Girls’s Strawweight Muay Thai World Title with a third-round knockout of Natalia Diachkova at ONE Combat Night time 46, broadcasting stay on Prime Video from Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium this previous Friday, August 14. The win pushed her ONE Championship document to an ideal 6-0 and earned a US$50,000 efficiency bonus for the end.
With the Diachkova rivalry now closed at 1-0, consideration naturally turns to former ONE Girls’s Strawweight Kickboxing World Champion Jackie Buntan, the fighter Hemetsberger beat twice on her technique to two-sport gold. Hemetsberger sounds in no rush to run it again a 3rd time.
“Truthfully, after 2-0, I assume we do have a dominant path in that matter of that rivalry. Jackie is an effective fighter, I assume she’s gonna combat once more in ONE, and we’ll see about that. Possibly sooner or later sooner or later, however proper now after the two and 0, perhaps another opponent subsequent,” she mentioned.
Stella Hemetsberger guidelines out MMA for now
Hemetsberger has additionally shut down any near-term speak of a transfer to combined martial arts, regardless of her rising case as one of many sport’s most dominant two-sport champions. Comparisons to Stamp Fairtex’s historic three-sport run have already began circulating given how completely she has dominated each of her present divisions.
“MMA shouldn’t be on the plan proper now. I wish to give attention to the 2 disciplines I’m doing already. By no means say by no means, however proper now it’s not on the plan,” she mentioned.
For now, Hemetsberger says she is content material merely selecting between her two current divisions for what comes subsequent, leaving each the Buntan trilogy and any larger cross-discipline ambitions parked for a later date.
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