{"id":3632,"date":"2024-06-08T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T14:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2024-06-08T17:51:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:51:20","slug":"tawanchai-retains-one-world-title-with-win-over-jo-nattawut-at-one-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/tawanchai-retains-one-world-title-with-win-over-jo-nattawut-at-one-167\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodtang Picks Up Win Against Puric in Thrilling Fight at ONE 167"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ONE Flyweight Muay Thai world champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon impressed on his return, leaving Bangkok\u2019s Impact Arena with a unanimous decision victory against Denis Puric.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodtang edged out his Canadian-Bosnian competitor in the co-main event at ONE 167: Tawanchai vs Nattawut II, showing his trademark ruthlessness for the entirety of the three-round 64 Kg catchweight kickboxing bout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first round, the \u201cIron Man\u201d employed an unusual tactic, using his speed and a variety of kicks to open up his opponent\u2019s defense while only utilizing boxing combinations late in the round. After dominating the first round, Rodtang came under pressure in the second stanza as the veteran 39-year-old landed solid combinations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, Rodtang seemed characteristically durable, absorbing the Bosnian-Canadian\u2019s punches and using his incredible arsenal to strike back. A heavy exchange in the third round brought the audience to the edge of their seats as the two men engaged from a close distance, but neither of them was able to knock out the other.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a hard-fought contest, the three judges gave Rodtang the nod. The win is a significant one for the Thai megastar as it follows his defeat to Superlek Kiatmoo last September \u2013 his first defeat under striking rules in ONE Championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x6ikm8r x10wlt62\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FONEChampME%2Fvideos%2F7579368305514642%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=476&amp;t=0\" width=\"476\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this win, the 26-year-old Thai megastar improves his overall record to 272-43.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE Flyweight Muay Thai world champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon impressed on his return, leaving Bangkok\u2019s Impact Arena with a unanimous decision victory against Denis Puric.\u00a0 Rodtang edged out his Canadian-Bosnian competitor in the co-main event at ONE 167: Tawanchai vs Nattawut II, showing his trademark ruthlessness for the entirety of the three-round 64 Kg catchweight kickboxing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,88,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kick-kickboxing-muay-thai","8":"category-kickboxing-muay-thai","9":"category-one-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}