ONE Championship: Aung La N Sang suggests a ‘million-dollar tournament for middleweights’
- Former two-division champ believes ‘everybody would love’ a middleweight Grand Prix tournament because ‘it’s an exciting weight class’
- In the meantime, Burmese-American hopes to get back on track in ‘a fun fight’ with Japanese MMA veteran Yushin Okami
ONE Championship has promoted million-dollar Grand Prix tournaments in a number of its most exciting weight classes, but so far, the middleweight division has been deprived of any such action.
Aung La N Sang, the division’s former champion, would like to see that change.
“That would be amazing,” the 36-year-old Burmese-American star told the Post when asked about a potential middleweight Grand Prix. “A million-dollar tournament for the middleweights? Make it happen, man.”
ONE Championship has previously promoted Grand Prix tournaments in its men’s flyweight MMA division and its women’s atomweight MMA division to name a few, and will soon do so in its men’s flyweight Muay Thai division.
N Sang (27-13), who has also competed at light heavyweight and heavyweight, is hoping the promotion’s Grand Prix fever will soon spread to its bigger weight classes.
“We always have [tournaments for] the lighter weights,” he said. “Why can’t the middleweights make a little money for their family and put on some great shows?
“I know all the middleweights are down and I know everybody would love that.”
