Garry Tonon expects title shot with gain over Martin Nguyen at ONE 165: ‘Makes the most sense’

Garry Tonon feels he’s combating for extra than wonderful a gain or a loss on his legend this Sunday.

The standout grappler thinks his upcoming fight towards Martin Nguyen is an unofficial No. 1 contender bout within the featherweight division. Tonon (8-1) and Nguyen (15-6) are scheduled to fight at ONE Championship 165, which works down at Ariake Enviornment in Tokyo, Japan. If victorious, Tonon sees himself getting one other shot at the ONE Championship title.

“I don’t in actuality look too many alternate strategies for ONE Championship although they didn’t need that for no topic reason, but I don’t know why (they wouldn’t),” Tonon advised MMA Junkie. “I say cherish it’s going to be the factor that makes the most sense, assuming I gain this fight.

“Thanh Le and Tang Kai are going to fight every diversified. The solely factor that can happen – per chance, I wager – I imply, I could perchance presumably perchance’ve obtained three fights in a row so it would seem roughly queer to me, however the solely factor that I say you might presumably also argue is that Thanh would possibly perchance presumably lose to Tang Kai and then per chance they’ll ask me to fight Thanh in resolution to Tang Kai, but then who fights Tang Kai?”

Tonon is within the imply time on a two-fight winning dash since shedding to Thanh Le in a ONE Championship featherweight title fight. He has now not been explicitly advised by the organization that he’s up subsequent if he were to bag his hand raised this weekend. On the other hand, he wonderful doesn’t look anyone better suited for the job if he defeats Nguyen.

The 32-300 and sixty five days-venerable is conscious of Nguyen is unhealthy, but he plans on making a assertion by submitting him.

“I don’t mediate he’s ever faced somebody cherish me before,” Tonon explained. “Perchance that’s a runt of an ego-pushed assertion, but he has dealt with a ton of forms of diversified challenges of elite level competition, and he’s executed exceptionally smartly. He’s risen to the occasion. … I cherish my potentialities, for certain. I don’t mediate he has the grappling abilities to contend with the issues I’m going to throw at him. The system I look this fight going is the system I look every fight going. We launch by punching every diversified within the face, we clinch up, and I lastly place this guy down, lay some punishment and post him. That’s the system I look this fight going.”