"They've got more experience than I've ever had" - Jonathan Haggerty enamored by Thai kids fighting Muay Thai at a young age

Jonathan Haggerty has accomplished a lot in his career by the age of 27 where currently, he is on top of the world. The two sport ONE bantamweight world champion has been a staple of the promotion for some time and has only gotten better with age.

When it comes to the Thai competitors around him, the Brit can certainly match them when it comes to the amount of years he has in the game.

However, a huge difference from international strikers and the ones that grow up in Thailand is the sheer gap in experience.

Now that Haggerty is based in Thailand, he has first hand experience of kids starting to compete in striking from a young age where they rack up fight experience.

He spoke on a recent episode of the Sky Sports MMA Club about the culture of competition in his home away from home:

"I'm based in Koh Samui, a lovely island in Thailand. It's unbelievable. They sort of got kids from the age of six fighting onwards, that's when they get higher in their careers, they would already have 300 fights, so they got the experience. They've got more experience than I've ever had, I only had 27 fights, but I have been fighting since the age of six, on full Thai boxing rules."

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Jonathan Haggerty is up against this at ONE 168

For every attribute that Jonathan Haggerty does have in his favor, he knows that he will simply never be able to catch some of his rivals on fight experience.

This will be the case in his huge upcoming title defense of the bantamweight Muay Thai world championship.

At ONE 168 in Denver on Sept. 6, he will take on one of the very best in the world in ONE flyweight kickboxing world champion Superlek.

As an elite competitor with fight experience in the hundreds, there is nothing that 'The General' can throw at him that he won't have seen before.

This won't stop the Brit from trying to take his head off with every single strike in this dream clash of strikers.

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