Despite being outsized in his last two ONE Championship appearances, Pongsiri PK.Saenchai Muaythaigym put up a good fight in the ONE Super Series Muay Thai featherweight division.

Now the four-time Muay Thai World Champion will look to show the martial arts world what he is made of in his natural weight class.

For his next bout, he will compete in the bantamweight division and go head-to-head with WBC Muay Thai World Champion Sean “Clubber” Clancy in the main event of ONE: A NEW BREED II.

Before the previously recorded event in Bangkok, Thailand, airs for the first time this Friday, 11 September, Pongsiri sizes his rival up and lays out his game plan.

“This is the weight class I want to be in,” Pongsiri said. “I’m most comfortable with it in terms of forward movements and weapons. I want to prove to myself that I can become a champion in this weight class.”

Pongsiri competed twice at featherweight in The Home Of Martial Arts, but twice he came up short - first against the inaugural ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Champion Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy in February, and then against Sorgraw Petchyindee Academy in August.

“When I was fighting in the 70.3-kilogram weight class, it was bigger,” he said. “I learned that it’s a disadvantage being smaller after I was attacked. My heavy weapons became light because [my opponents] were bigger.”

Although Clancy will be another slightly bigger opponent, the differences in size may not be extreme, nor will they cause much trouble for the PK.Saenchai Muaythaigym athlete.

Whether he’s the smaller man on Friday night or not, Pongsiri plans to gain the respect of “Clubber” right away.

“I am determined to walk forward and approach him from round one,” he said.

“My weapons’ strength is great. I have great experience, I do more forward approaches, and I do shin kicks and elbow strikes. I plan to make him tired, and I expect to knock him out with my elbows.”

If he could do that, the man from Nakhon Ratchasima may get a top-five bantamweight next. And if he could win there, he may be on his way to reaching his ultimate goal.

“It would be great if I were to win because it would be another step toward becoming a ONE World Champion,” Pongsiri said. “I’m determined to become the champion.”

Watch the previously recorded ONE: A NEW BREED II this Friday, 11 September, at 8:30 p.m. Singapore Standard Time (SGT) on meWATCH or by downloading the ONE Super App. Also, Channel 5 will provide a same-day delay at 10 p.m. SGT.

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