ONE Flyweight Kickboxing World Champion Superlek “The Kicking Machine” Kiatmoo9 scored his biggest win inside the ONE Championship ring after beating ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion Rodtang “The Iron Man” Jitmuangnon last week.
Now he’s targeting a move to the bantamweight division to challenge divisional Muay Thai king Jonathan “The General” Haggerty.
Haggerty moved up to bantamweight and beat the legendary Nong-O Hama, making him one of the most sought after fighters in the promotion.
But not everyone has been happy with the way he’s been acting. In fact, Superlek feels that the Englishman’s getting ahead of himself.
“He’s bold, full of ambitions, and he has a sharp tongue. He thinks now he’s a superstar and he has the right to look over me,” he said.
“Because it’s not only me who wants to challenge for his belt, he’d rather not waste his time looking at me.”
Superlek actually has a win over Haggerty in the latter’s home country. He beat “The General,” but he’s not happy with how it turned out.
That match was halted in the second round owing to cuts on Haggerty’s face, giving Superlek the stoppage win back in 2018.
Seeing how Haggerty has improved since that fight five years ago, Superlek wants to test just how much better Haggerty has gotten.
“I want to fight Jonathan again because in our last match, even though I won it [left] some doubt. And when he moved up to the bantamweight division, he beat Nong-O and became the world champion,” he said.
“That gave me my urge to fight him in his stronger version. There’s nothing personal, it’s not about, ‘I want revenge for Nong-O.’ I just want to fight him to prove that I’m better than him and this time I’ll leave no doubt.”