ONE Championship: Stamp Fairtex says doctor told her she broke Ham Seo-hee’s arm – ‘because I have Tawanchai!’

New ONE atomweight MMA champ reveals she emulated Tawanchai’s devastating leg kicks en route to victory in Singapore

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Stamp Fairtex throws a kick at Ham Seo-hee in Singapore. Photos: ONE Championship

Published: 9:21pm, 3 Oct 2023Updated: 11:18am, 4 Oct 2023

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Stamp Fairfax admitted she took inspiration from Tawanchai PK Saenchai for her game plan to beat Ham Seo-hee in Singapore on Saturday.

The 25-year-old Thai stopped Ham in the third round to win the ONE Championship atomweight MMA title, which moments earlier had been vacated by Angela Lee, who announced her retirement at ONE Fight Night 14.

She may have finished the fight with a barrage of body shots, but it was a bone bruising kick to the South Korean’s lead left arm that left her unable to defend herself or land her biggest shots.

“I talked to the doctor [after the fight]. I said. ‘Oh, my leg is hurt because I kicked her elbow’, and the doctor said ‘your leg is fine’. But the doctor also said her arm is broken, he said like that, but I think not,” Stamp explained to the Post backstage at Singapore Indoor Stadium.

“Because I have Tawanchai,” she added during the post-event media scrum, smiling as she mimicked the ONE featherweight Muay Thai champion’s signature kick that has mangled the limbs of his last two opponents, Davit Kiria and Jamal Yusupov.