ONE Championship: Ritu Phogat stays undeterred after Stamp Fairtex loss – ‘I’ll come back stronger and bring the belt for India’
- Stamp submits ‘The Indian Tigress’ in atomweight grand prix final at ONE: Winter Warriors in Singapore
- Despite the defeat, Phogat is still determined to win the title – ‘my goal is the same,’ she says
Indian MMA superstar Ritu Phogat is taking her submission loss to Stamp Fairtex on the chin.
Phogat, 27, met Thailand’s Stamp in Friday’s atomweight grand prix final in the co-main event of the ONE: Winter Warriors card on Friday in Singapore.
The Indian national wrestling champion had her moments in the fight, notably controlling Stamp against the fence for most of the first round.
Yet her wrestling became her undoing in the second round when, after completing a takedown, she found herself locked up in an arm triangle choke and then an arm bar – the latter of which proved more than she could endure.
The tap came at 2:14 of round two.
“I saw all her matches, and she did good on the ground” Phogat (7-2) told the Post after her loss to Stamp. “Today also she did a good job.”
“Today is her day, not my day.”