British kickboxing nice, Jonathan Haggerty has revealed plans to finally ditch the ring for the cage within the close to future in his fight sports activities profession, with the ONE Championship star confirming his concept to enter blended martial arts earlier than his profession is over.
Haggerty, 28, returns to motion this week towards Chinese language foe, Wei Rui at ONE Championship 171 in Qatar, trying to return to the winner’s enclosure following a devastating knockout loss in his most up-to-date fight sports activities outing.
Most not too long ago taking over Thai placing icon, Superlek, English kickboxing ace, Haggerty was stopped in brutal trend courtesy of a step-in elbow KO loss simply 49 seconds into the opening spherical of their showdown at ONE Championship 168 in Denver, Colorado.
The defeat would come as Jonathan Haggerty’s first in seven straight fights, following back-to-back losses towards one other legendary striker; Rodtang Jitmuangnon again in 2019, and 2020, respectively.
Jonathan Haggerty reveals plans for eventual transition to MMA
Boasting a powerful 23-5 skilled kickboxing file, at simply 28 years of age, Haggerty revealed throughout an interview with Ariel Helwani for Uncrowned forward of tomorrow’s return to ONE Championship — how he plans to enter blended martial arts competitors later in his profession.
I imply, the ultimate aim is MMA, if I’m completely trustworthy, , full-time MMA,” Jonathan Haggerty defined. “So we’ll see how these few years play out and then hopefully you’ll see me as the MMA world champion. Well, I was doing a few bits of MMA training, obviously down at my dad’s gym, but I’ve been so occupied now and so busy with defending the belt and it’s just completely gone off my mind now. So once this fight is over, we’ll go back to the drawing board and we’ll start (0:47) training some MMA again and we’ll see what happens.”
"The final goal is MMA, if I'm totally honest… We'll see how these few years play out and then, hopefully, you'll see me as the MMA world champion."Jonathan Haggerty on his MMA aspirations. pic.twitter.com/SqHrawW06U
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) February 19, 2025
