Danielle Kelly promises to break Mayssa Bastos until “she’s not able to compete” at ONE Fight Night 24 world title defense

Danielle Kelly isn't messing around when it comes to her first world title defense. The reigning ONE atomweight submission grappling world champion will defend her throne against the dangerous Mayssa Bastos at ONE Fight Night 24 on Aug. 2 at the historic Lumpinee Stadium.

In an interview with Home of Fight, Kelly shared her attitude ahead of his pivotal matchup against Bastos.

Danielle Kelly, who's been slowly carving a path in ONE Championship, promised to break Bastos to a point where the nine-time IBJJF world champion would succumb to overwhelming pressure.

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She said:

"Getting beat up, so best of both worlds. I've just been busy with life and everything, but she's competing the whole time so I'm just kind of studying her, just working on what I'm good at."

Kelly added:

"This is gonna be a pretty competitive matchup, I know she's competing in the ADCC in the next two weeks so my goal is to try to break her so she's not going to be able to compete. I want to prove myself always."

Kelly has been in fine form since she made her ONE Championship debut at ONE X.

After settling for a draw against Japanese women's MMA pioneer Mei Yamaguchi, Kelly racked up three straight wins against some of the toughest female submission grapplers on the planet.

Kelly scored impressive wins over Sambo world champion Mariia Molchanova, former ONE women's strawweight world title contender Ayaka Miura, and IBJJF world champion Jessa Khan.

It was her unanimous decision over Khan at ONE Fight Night 14 that earned Kelly the inaugural ONE atomweight submission grappling world championship.

ONE Fight Night 24 is available live and free to all Prime Video subscribers in the United States and Canada.

Danielle Kelly skips Fourth of July celebrations to focus on training camp

While her entire country was celebrating its Independence Day, Danielle Kelly was hard at work perfecting her craft ahead of ONE Fight Night 24.

Kelly revealed on Instagram that she gladly decided to skip Fourth of July festivities to better prepare for her world title defense against Mayssa Bastos.

She wrote:

"Happy 4th of July to all my friends and followers 🎉 no beach fun for me, but I'm looking forward to putting on a show for you guys soon."