No 1 pound-for-pound kickboxer Superbon wants to give MMA a shot – and UFC champ Alex Volkanovski is keen to train him
- ONE Championship featherweight kickboxing king eyes two more belts in mixed martial arts and Muay Thai
- ‘With the right coaches they could turn him into a real beast in MMA,’ Volkanovski says after pair host seminars at Bangtao Muay Thai & MMA gym
ONE Championship featherweight kickboxing king Superbon is looking to branch out into MMA – and UFC champ Alex Volkanovski thinks he can help make the Thai striker “a real beast”.
The two champions conducted seminars last weekend for the grand opening of the new Bangtao Muay Thai & MMA gym in Phuket, Thailand.
And while No 1 pound-for-pound star Superbon knows his next opponent will be Chingiz Allazov – the winner of ONE’s featherweight kickboxing grand prix – he insists all bets are off after that fight.
“I’m just training – I don’t mind who is my opponent, because I beat everyone at my level,” Superbon told the Post. “Everyone has to fear me. I do what I want to do. I see how he [Allazov] fights, I will just make my game plan like before I did to [Giorgio] Petrosyan and Marat Grigorian.
“I’m gonna do that again – 100 per cent I’m gonna win again. I will win that fight and then I’m gonna focus on the Muay Thai belt. I want to have three belts – I will try to go MMA too after Muay Thai.