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Nicolas Atkin

Every time he signs on the dotted line to step back into the ONE Championship cage, Martin Nguyen leaves his family behind in Sydney and flies out to the United States for training camp.
The 32-year-old Vietnamese-Australian is back at Sanford MMA in Florida now, preparing to face Kim Jae-woong at ONE on TNT II next month as he looks to begin his journey to reclaiming the featherweight title.
But Nguyen (13-4) has arrived in the Sunshine State when anti-Asian hatred in the US seems more rife than at any time in recent memory, with a rise in hate crimes amid the coronavirus pandemic, including a deadly mass shooting in Atlanta. 
“It’s ugly, it’s a hateful world that we love in, that sucks,” Nguyen told SCMP MMA.


“But thankfully for me growing up, I never really experienced this in Australia. It is a thing, but it’s not a huge thing I experienced every day
“I feel for the people that are going through it here in America. I don’t experience it here ever at all since I’ve been here in Florida, but it is happening and it’s just getting worse.”
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Asian martial arts organisation ONE has thrown its weight behind the Stop Asian Hate movement, which is growing in the US, using its social media channels and broadcasts to call for an end to the violence.
“I think bringing awareness to it will kind of help it, but there’s a lot of people with a lot of hate in their heart, and there’s nothing you can do to change that,” Nguyen added.
“It is what it is, I guess. If they’re gonna do it, what’s stopping them? Unless you talk about it and raise more awareness about it, it ain’t gonna stop.”



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‘There’s a lot of people with a lot of hate in their heart, and there’s nothing you can do to change that,’ Nguyen says



‘There’s a lot of people with a lot of hate in their heart, and there’s nothing you can do to change that,’ says former ONE Championship featherweight king Martin Nguyen.
