British ONE Championship star Jacob Smith to battle Muay Thai legend Denis Puric
British ONE Championship star Jacob Smith will enter the fray as soon as once more when he battles towards Muay Thai icon Denis Puric.
The 31-year-old will tackle ‘The Bosnian Menace’ in a Flyweight Muay Thai bout scheduled for 3 rounds on the ONE Fight Night 21 occasion on April fifth. Hosted in Bangkok, Thailand, on the world well-known Lumpinee Boxing Stadium, the cardboard will probably be accessible to look at stay on Prime Video.
The occasion will also be considered on Sky Sports because of the organisation’s deal signed with the broadcaster in late 2023 with loads of UK followers to get behind their countrymen in Smith who’ll enter the combat on the again of a surprising knockout victory over Walter Goncalves final December.
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The Englishman will face one of many sternest exams of his profession when he faces throughout from Puric – a battle-tested veteran on this planet of fight sports activities. The 38-year-old will even be getting into the combat full of confidence after scoring a knockout victory in his final bout towards Nguyen Tran Duy Nhat final yr.
Puric has been battling lengthy earlier than the start of his combating profession as he was grew up in the course of the Yugoslav Wars that pressured he and his household to depart Slovenia to maneuver to their homeland of Bosnia the place he grew to become akin to seeing conflict whereas residing in a refugee camp along with his mom whereas his father was serving as a soldier on the battlefield.
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He opened up concerning the tragic experiences of his childhood the place he instructed ONE Championship: “Once the first shots started popping off, my dad packed us up and moved to Bosnia because he had lots of land and a home there.
“We moved again to Bosnia with out figuring out that the precise conflict was going to occur there. When that occurred, they closed down the borders, so then we had been caught there for about 4 years. We spent a while in a refugee camp whereas my dad was on the entrance strains combating within the conflict.”
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He and his mom believed his father was killed in the course of the conflict after disappearing as he added: “He got shot in the war and kinda disappeared on us. My mother and I thought he was dead. We went back to our town, and we went to another refugee camp because the fighting started in our city again. That second time, we actually found my father alive.”
