The #BodyShotChallene is insane and not recommended for anyone without abs of steel or a tolerance for pain.
Anyone who has followed the career of two-division ONE Championship kingpin [autotag]Aung La N Sang[/autotag] will already know that he is one of the toughest athletes in the game today.
“The Burmese Python” has served up a host of crowd-pleasing wars in the cage as he has won, then defended, his ONE middleweight and light-heavyweight titles for the Asian promotion over the last couple of years. In addition, in his last fight he defeated the current ONE heavyweight champion, Brandon Vera, who dropped down in a bid to take N Sang’s light heavyweight belt.
But now the Florida-based Myanmar fighter has decided to issue a challenge to his fellow fighters on social media: the #BodyShotChallenge.
N Sang got the ball rolling as he asked three of his teammates from Hard Knocks 365: Bellator featherweight [autotag]Adam Borics[/autotag], UFC lightweight [autotag]Michael Johnson[/autotag] and Bellator welterweight [autotag]Jason Jackson[/autotag], to unleash their best body shots on his midsection.
The trio didn’t disappoint as they wound up and let fly with a vicious series of body shots. But N Sang took them all with apparent ease as he laid down the challenge to his fellow pros, tagging UFC fighters Derek Brunson and Volkan Oezdemir, plus ONE flyweight Muay Thai champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon to take up the challenge and post videos of their own.
This one definitely falls into the “don’t try this at home” category, but if this becomes a craze within the sport of MMA and we get to see more wild videos of pro fighters taking body shots like a boss, then we’re absolutely fine with that.
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