‘Burmese Python’ Aung La Nsang stops Alain ‘The Panther’ Ngalani
One Championship world middleweight champion wears down Hong Kong-based fighter with a guillotine choke as Shanghai’s Miao ‘Supermum’ Jie claims another win
Hometown hero Aung La Nsang rose to the big occasion once again on Friday night with the Burmese Python forcing Alain “The Panther” Ngalani to tap out in the first round of their open weight “super fight”.
The One Championship’s world middleweight champion wore some shots early from his heavyweight opponent but then wore the bigger man down to the roars of a wild local crowd.
Nsang (21-10) seems to feed off that frantic energy – as he did back in June when taking the title from Russia’s Vitaly Bigdash – and he quickly moved to bring the game down on to the mat, and away from the four-time Muay Thai world champion’s fists and feet. It was over with 4.48 of the first gone via guillotine choke.
“Thanks you Myanmar, I love you,” said Nsang. “Moving up to heavyweight was tough for me. But you guys lifted me.”
There was absolutely no disgrace in the loss for the 42-year-old Hong Kong-based Ngalani (4-4), who is hoping Friday night’s efforts will help him in his quest towards a title crack at reigning One world heavyweight king Brandon “The Truth” Vera (15-7).