Aung La N Sang has targeted a return to One Championship action by April after undergoing surgery on his thumb – and called out undefeated middleweight Reinier de Ridder. “The Burmese Python” revealed the cast on his right hand will be coming off in two weeks, and he’ll be ready to resume full training. “Sleeping good, eating good, but I can’t train so well right now,” the light heavyweight and middleweight champion told the Post in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. N Sang suffered the injury during his second-round TKO win over heavyweight champion Brandon Vera at October’s One: Century card in Tokyo. It put paid to his plans to fight on this week’s One: Mark of Greatness card in Kuala Lumpur. “I didn’t know it was broken until after they took my hand wraps off,” he said. “I didn’t think it was that bad until I got the X-ray. The bone was totally out of line. I had to get the surgery, got two pins in it. Just healing it now. “If I just let it heal on its own, it’s not gonna heal right, and I’m gonna have arthritis. The doctor recommended surgery. In two weeks the cast will be off and we’ll be ready to go.” Angela Lee talks depression after One Championship losses N Sang is targeting a March return to the cage at the earliest, but admitted he is tempted to wait until April 28’s card in Malaysia, where this week he is cornering Sandford MMA teammate Tial Thang with One featherweight champion Martin Nguyen. “Everybody, all the contenders at middleweight, that’s still the plan,” he said. “I wanna take them out. You know what’s funny is Reinier after he won in Malaysia called me out. So I have something for him. If he wants to do it we can get it done. “I know Leandro [Ataides] and [Vitaly] Bigdash are going at it. I’d like to fight the winner as well. Anybody in the middleweight division, I’m down.”