ONE Light-weight Muay Thai fighter, Dmitry Menshikov, scored a brutal knockout victory over Tengnueng. At ONE Friday Combat 97. In an exciting 1 spherical bout that may present implausible back-forth motion in a conflict between the punch-heavy Muay Mat type in Meshikov and the highly effective Muay Tae kicking type proven off by Tengnueng.
Tengnueng is a Thai fighter a lot bigger than the typical Thai nationwide. He’s 5’11 “and fights as little as 153 Lbs (light-middleweight) to all the best way to cruiserweight in Muay Thai. He has had unbelievable success, having made his title in Thailand’s greatest Kard Chuek Promotion, THAI FIGHT. There, he has received titles in 3 separate divisions and has not misplaced a struggle since 2018—till now.
Regardless of initially combating Tengueng’s inside low kicks, on the finish of the spherical, Dmitry Menshikov discovered his vary and superbly strung collectively combos that had been touchdown at will on the Thai. He used his vary in a Sergei Pavlovich-esque method. He rocked Tengnueng earlier than ending him with a brutal uppercut left hook mixture that left Tengnueng slumped unconscious within the nook proper because the bell rang to indicate the top of the spherical for a very violent and dramatic knockout for the Russian.
Dmitry Menshikov will depart on his personal phrases.
This was Dmitry Meshikov’s closing struggle in ONE Championship as he served the corporate authorized papers that they had been breaching their contract by not permitting him to remain energetic within the promotion. Dmitry Menshikov was very vocal in his criticisms of the corporate, with one particularly protruding. He claimed that fighters that he had defeated had been being booked to struggle quicker than he was. This can be a horrible search for the corporate, particularly when they’re already accused of favoritism for sure fighters over others.
On prime of that, Tengnueng was a really dangerous struggle for Dmitry Menshikov as he was undefeated and identified to do nicely in opposition to bigger fighters. So this struggle was a very high-risk, low-reward struggle for Dimitry Menshikov, as despite the fact that he defeated Tengnueng in spectacular trend, he wasn’t awarded a bonus. This element was very a lot observed by followers on social media, with many accusing them of utilizing a tactic that’s allegedly employed by the UFC.
When a fighter of their final struggle is given a really troublesome matchup within the try, the fighter leaves with a loss and might now be derived by the promoter as not being on the promotion’s stage. For instance, the UFC infamously tried to guide Nate Diaz, a pure light-weight, in opposition to Khamzat Chimaev, a pure middleweight, for his closing struggle within the promotion.
As for Dmitry Menshikov, might he discover success wherever he can. For the followers, it’s a nice disgrace that the largest Muay Thai promotion on the planet misplaced one other fighter from their light-weight division. With so few light-weight fighters, ONE has stopped rating fighters in that division altogether.
As followers we are able to solely hope and demand that the promotion could have friendlier relationships with its fighters, as nicely need as followers if for the perfect to struggle the perfect underneath one umbrella.
