ONE Featherweight and Lightweight World Champion Martin “The Situ-Asian” Nguyen, 28, of Australia seeks to make history again as he squares off with ONE Bantamweight World Champion Bibiano “The Flash” Fernandes, 37, of Brazil putting all the stops as he attempts to snare a third world title. The latter recently shared his assessment of his opponent at “ONE: Iron Will” on March 24, 2018 at the Impact Arena in Bangkok, Thailand.
“His main strength is that he is a one-punch guy,” Fernandes said of Nguyen. “If you watch his matches, he has one-punch power. He waits to throw that punch.”
Fernandes is coming into the scheduled five-round championship contest as the heavy favorite. Still, many cageside observers believe that a tough test awaits him in the stand-up exchanges due to his opponent’s knockout power.
However, Fernandes asserted that he has a fair share of knowledge in terms of delivering blows from a toe-to-toe stance. He said, “I faced so many guys in my career with hard punches, and I handled those guys.”
“He has good power,” Fernandes said of Nguyen. “But I have good power as well. People think I am a Jiu-Jitsu guy, but if you look back at my matches, I have dropped people and I finish people. I do everything.”
While his list of preys includes talented bantamweights like Toni Tauru, Kevin Belingon, Reece McLaren and Andrew Leone, Fernandes credits all of his accomplishment to hard work and in-depth preparation. The reigning ONE Bantamweight World Champion noted, “I train hard. Confidence in my training is more important.”
“Training makes me win. I always say that,” Fernandes pointed out. “I am confident that I will bring a good fight. That is how I am. That is always what I do. I can bring the victory, for sure.”
“I push the fight,” the Brazilian fighter added. “If he won’t fight, I’ll make him fight. It’s always the same for everybody.”
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