By Dan Paulo Errazo
Eduard “Landslide” Folayang is headlining the ONE: A NEW ERA at the Ry?goku Kokugikan on 31 March as one of the four World Champions defending their titles.
Team Lakay began the year on a sour note when they lost two of their World Titles last January. Folayang instantly realized that it is up to him to boost the morale of their team by successfully defending his ONE Lightweight World Title at ONE: A NEW ERA against former foe Shinya “Tobikan Judan” Aoki.
Since then, Folayang has been training non-stop, even when he was overseas to support his stablemates in their own matches, so that he would be ready to face the Japanese legend.
“I am very happy to be the main event at ONE: A New Era. Any athlete would want to headline this card so I am grateful to ONE Championship for giving me the opportunity to showcase my skills in the main event,” said Folayang in an interview with Inquirer.net.
As the veteran of the group, Folayang wants to continue the winning momentum set by Danny Kingad and Gina Iniong and lead Team Lakay back to their winning ways.
The pressure felt was also alleviated upon the announcement of Kevin “The Silencer” Belingon’s rubber match against Bibiano Fernandes. Folayang became even more focused and motivated knowing that he has someone to turn to and gather strength from.
“Kevin’s addition to the card gave me an added motivation. We can share thoughts with each other on how we can successfully defend our belts in Japan. It will be a night full of fireworks,” Folayang said.
Folayang and Belingon are determined to give everything that they have and return to the Philippines with their World Titles still intact.
“The goal is to successfully defend both our titles on March 31, it’s so easy to think and say that but it will be very hard to do,” Folayang concluded.
“We shall do our best to bring back the World titles back home to the Philippines.”
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