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ONE Championship: Felipe Lobo warns Jonathan Haggerty ‘let’s see what happens’ after verbal in-ring altercation

  • Haggerty gets heated with the No 2-ranked bantamweight Muay Thai contender Lobo, who was cornering Fabricio Andrade in Bangkok
  • ‘I don’t even like to mention Lobo, because he don’t even want it. I can’t stand his face,’ ONE’s new two-sport champion says at Lumpinee

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ONE Championship two-sport king Jonathan Haggerty was involved in not one but two verbal altercations after his kickboxing title win in Bangkok last Saturday.

Haggerty was confronted in the ring by former champion Alaverdi Ramazanov, in what was an unplanned segment that angered ONE chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong to the point he banned the Russian and his coach – the Venum Training Camp gym’s co-owner Mehdi Zatout – from all ONE events for six months.

But the 26-year-old had already been involved in a volley of trash talk with the No 2-ranked bantamweight Muay Thai contender Felipe lobo, who was cornering Fabricio Andrade at Lumpinee stadium.

Haggerty had just finished Andrade in the second round of the ONE Fight Night 16 main event, and had gone over to the Brazilian’s corner to console him, before things started to become heated with “The Demolition Man”.

 

“He pass to me and then he say, ‘You are next’,” Lobo, a teammate of Andrade’s at the Tiger Muay Thai gym in Phuket, told the Post. “Then I say, ‘Yes, let’s see what’s gonna happen next’.

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