There were plenty of talking points at One FC 3: Eduard Folayang and Ole Laursen’s fight of the night, Zorobabel Moreira’s submission of Felipe Enomoto and the brutal cuts which caused Melvin Manhoef and Yoshiyuki Nakanishi’s fight to be called a no-contest.
For me the most impressive performance of all came from a little-known fighter from Hong Kong. Eddie Ng’s nowhere near as famous as some of the One FC fighters, but he is very exciting and very aggressive, and I really want to see him fight again.
At One FC 1, Ng destroyed Yuan Chun Bo with huge punches from the guard which left him unconscious. I thought Jian Kai Chee would be a lot more difficult to beat because he had more fights than Ng and had also fought against good opponents like Ole Laursen and Arnaud Lepont.
Often times a fighter who has lost to top opponents that are good is better than one who has never faced a good opponent in the first place, and I thought this might be the case with Chee, who is a Muay Thai champion from Malaysia.
I saw Chee’s fight with Laursen on YouTube, and you could see that he had very good stand-up, too good for Ng everyone assumed. They were wrong. Laursen got hit hard and hurt, but Ng did not get hit once; he did all the hitting himself.
The big surprise was that Ng’s Muay Thai looked like more than a match for Chee’s, and he almost knocked him out with a hook which had him hurt. Ng is not a patient fighter; he is very fast, and that is probably the reason why his fights have always finished in the very first round.
This one was the same, as Ng got right down to business, showing no respect at all for Chee’s high level of stand-up as he pressed forward and landed a one-two combination with the second punch, sending Chee to his knees.
Ng could have won then and there because he had a guillotine choke, but he threw knees to the head and then mounted Chee and went for broke, throwing punch after punch after punch, which left the semi-conscious Malaysian tapping for dear life.
Ng was a BJJ world champion, but he did not seem to want to use his submissions and was only interested in inflicting the maximum punishment on his opponent. It was a display of pure, unbridled aggression, but it was also totally effective; he landed almost every single strike he threw and never looked out of control.
With the win Ng moves up to 5-1, a good record for a 26-year-old, and he has beaten some good fighters—it’s not like his wins have been against low-level opponents. The time has surely come for him to take a step up; he trains at the best facility in the world, Evolve MMA, with fighters like Shinya Aoki and Rafael Dos Anjos, so he knows what it takes to be the best.
Training every day with world champions in BJJ and Muay Thai, as well as MMA, is really having an effect on Ng’s game, and he is improving all the time. That is why I think One FC must test him against a top fighter soon. Evolve MMA can take him to the next level, and he has all the ability he needs to get there.
If you haven’t heard the name Eddie Ng already, then listen for it, because you will soon. He is one of the most exciting and entertaining fighters around, and he is destined to do great things in One FC.
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