ONE Championship 156: Smilla Sundell and Jackie Buntan agree ‘we’ll meet again’ after brutal Muay Thai title battle

The 17-year-old champ and a badly bruised Buntan show ‘it’s all respect’ with picture together at their Singapore hotel

‘Thank you for sharing the Circle with me,’ says the Swede, who celebrated becoming youngest title-holder in ONE history with McDonald’s chicken nuggets

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Jackie Buntan (left) and Smilla Sundell pose for a photo together after their strawweight Muay Thai title war at ONE 156 in Singapore. Photo: Instagram/@smilla_fairtex

Published: 6:33pm, 23 Apr 2022

Smilla Sundell and Jackie Buntan left it all out there in the cage during Friday night’s ONE Championship 156 co-main event in Singapore.

And although the 17-year-old Swede walked away as the Asian martial arts promotion’s inaugural strawweight Muay Thai champ, she knows she has not seen the last of the Filipino-American.

“Thank you for sharing the Circle with me,” Sundell wrote in an Instagram post on Saturday, alongside a picture of the two at the fighters’ hotel. “See you around!”

“A big congrats to you Smilla! Until we meet again,” replied Buntan, who was wearing sunglasses in their photo to cover the badly swollen left eye Sundell left her with.

“Yeah we were trying to take each other’s heads off for 15 mins but it’s all respect afterwards,” Buntan added on her Instagram story, sharing Sundell’s original post.

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