ONE Championship: Stamp Fairtex responds to Conor McGregor supporting Ritu Phogat, sends ‘Indian Tigress’ a warning
- UFC icon gave his backing to ‘The Indian Tigress’ for December 3’s ONE atomweight grand prix final
- ‘She’s got no punches. She’s got nothing except her wrestling,’ insists Stamp – ‘I’m not scared of her’
But that’s completely fine with Stamp.
“I feel glad for her, it’s a good thing,” the 24-year-old Thai told the Post. “If I were Ritu, I would feel like, ‘Oh, this is the biggest MMA superstar in the world, Conor McGregor, he goes on Twitter and supports me’. I don’t feel anything bad about it on my side, I would say it’s nice for her.”
The 27-year-old Phogat (7-1) will also have an army of Indian fans supporting her, but Stamp will have her own sizeable contingent back home in Thailand cheering her on – and motivating her to make history.
“I need to win this fight, I want to build history,” she said. “I want to win this grand prix, I want that belt on my shoulder. I want to be the first female in Thailand and in ONE Championship who is a former kickboxing and Muay Thai champion and then becomes an MMA champion as well.”