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. “I’m gonna train here [at Bangtao]. Maybe we can go mixed rules like with Rodtang [vs Demetrious Johnson], it should be fun.” UFC: Volk ‘the complete fighter’, finally getting due credit says coach As for whom he would like to face in a crossover bout, Superbon was clear. “I think it’s got to be the featherweight [MMA] champion, Thanh Le,” he said. “It depends on ONE Championship. I can fight any time. I can fight tomorrow. But it depends on the boss.” Superbon’s planned move into MMA could not have been timed better, as he got the chance on Friday and Saturday to swap ideas with “The Great” Volkanovski, whose wrestling coaches George and Frank Hickman, and strength and conditioning coach Chris Wood, are part of the team that founded the new Bangtao gym. The 33-year-old Australian Volkanovski (24-1) also expressed an interest in an exchange of knowledge with his Thai counterpart. “I ended up chatting with him,” Volkanovski told the Post . “We’ll be talking. I’d love to pick his brains with some things as well. We can definitely do that. I can help him with some MMA stuff, and there’s always room for improvement with that Muay Thai and kick-boxing base.” Volkanovski, who retained his title this month with a fourth-round TKO of “The Korean Zombie”, feels Superbon could be a huge threat in MMA if he has the right coaching around him. “It’s not hard. He obviously knows striking is his thing,” Volkanovski said. “He doesn’t need to learn how to be a real good jiu-jitsu grappler or a real good wrestler. He just needs to learn how to not get to the mat. “Takedown defence, scrambling back to the feet – the majority of your time should be focused on that range, and making it hard for them to get you to the mat, and you’ll be dangerous. “A lot of strikers, they throw them in a grappling class and they’re doing a lot of attacks. Don’t waste any time grappling off your back. Get to your feet. That should be your main focus – not getting put on your back, cage work, distance control, little things like that. “There’s not too much to learn. His striking is where it’s at. I feel like with the right coaches they could turn him into a real beast in MMA.” Volkanovski also put his hand up for the job, should Superbon be serious about his plans to try MMA. “I would love to help train some of these guys,” he said. “I would have a lot of focus on the right things. I won’t let them waste time and energy on things we don’t want them doing anyway. “We want him on the feet, so we’ll do everything to keep him there and get him back to there. I would love to do something like that with him. “Israel Adesanya has a kick-boxing base, Brad Riddell – a lot of these guys were just kick-boxers, and now with the right team, and the right knowledge and approach to transition, look what you can be capable of.”