Liam Harrison, a British battle sport legend, will return to motion in ONE Championship on December 6, stay on Sky Sports activities.
Harrison will battle Japan’s Shinji Suzuki in a bantamweight kickboxing contest on the Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok.
The Leeds fighter is famend for his achievements and huge expertise in Muay Thai. He has now referred to as time on competing within the small Muay Thai gloves and is making a return to the kickboxing format.
“A new test, a new challenge and it gave me goosebumps again,” he instructed Sky Sports activities.
“Getting used to doing things like not elbowing obviously, not clinching, not catching kicks and things like that. But I’m looking forward to it. I think it’ll suit my style,” he defined.
“You know what you get with me. Win, lose or draw, it’ll be explosive, it’ll be exciting.”
It is a chance to see an ideal of the game in motion earlier than he retires fully.
“I promised myself what I’m going to do is take every fight one fight at a time. If I perform well in this, you’ll definitely see me back,” Harrison mentioned.
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“I’m not looking to do anything other than go out there and put a blistering performance on, win by knockout, get myself back in the win column and we’ll see where we go from there.
“Everybody’s combating principally for his or her life in there. There’s rather a lot at stake. I am below no illusions how robust this battle’s going to be.”
“He is bought fairly heavy fingers,” Harrison added of Suzuki. “It is not going to be simple.”
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Nonetheless Harrison had a warning for his subsequent opponent: “When I’m on top form and start putting the combination punches together and I finish with the heavy leg kicks and stuff like that, I think that I will break him down and I think that I will knock him out.”
For all his achievements, Harrison nonetheless has some extent to show. In his final battle he suffered a stoppage loss to a different Muay Thai legend, Seksan Or Kwanmuang, aka “The Man Who Yields to No one”.
“I got knocked down three times in that and I went down swinging every time,” Harrison mentioned. “However I’m still embarrassed about how I fought, and embarrassed about getting stopped and I want to come back and put that right.
“That battle nonetheless eats away at me. I need to get again in ONE, get again within the win column and redeem myself.”
