ONE Championship: Felipe Lobo warns Jonathan Haggerty ‘let’s see what happens’ after verbal in-ring altercation
- Haggerty gets heated with the No 2-ranked bantamweight Muay Thai contender Lobo, who was cornering Fabricio Andrade in Bangkok
- ‘I don’t even like to mention Lobo, because he don’t even want it. I can’t stand his face,’ ONE’s new two-sport champion says at Lumpinee
ONE Championship two-sport king Jonathan Haggerty was involved in not one but two verbal altercations after his kickboxing title win in Bangkok last Saturday.
But the 26-year-old had already been involved in a volley of trash talk with the No 2-ranked bantamweight Muay Thai contender Felipe lobo, who was cornering Fabricio Andrade at Lumpinee stadium.
Haggerty had just finished Andrade in the second round of the ONE Fight Night 16 main event, and had gone over to the Brazilian’s corner to console him, before things started to become heated with “The Demolition Man”.
“He pass to me and then he say, ‘You are next’,” Lobo, a teammate of Andrade’s at the Tiger Muay Thai gym in Phuket, told the Post. “Then I say, ‘Yes, let’s see what’s gonna happen next’.
“Then he started saying, ‘Ah, you are nobody, blah blah blah’. He started saying a lot of things I cannot understand, because his coach was saying a lot of things as well.
“Then I was just saying, ‘Yeah, let’s see what’s gonna happen next’.”
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The Briton’s coach Lyndon Knowles could be heard telling Andrade’s corner to “let him [Haggerty] celebrate!” after walking over to calm things down.
Haggerty later gave Lobo short shrift when asked about the altercation in a backstage interview with the Post at Lumpinee Stadium.
“I don’t even like to mention Lobo, because he don’t even want it. I can’t stand his face. But Lobo if he wants it, then yeah. I’m not here to call names,” Haggerty said.
Both Haggerty and ONE chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong agree his next fight will be a Muay Thai title defence.
With the two-sport champion set to hang around in Thailand for another three months at the Lamai Muay Thai Camp in Koh Samui, he could feasibly cross paths with the 30-year-old Lobo before heading back to the UK.
Lobo is set to face Saemapetch Fairtex in a rematch at ONE Fight Night 17 on December 9 in Bangkok, having finished the Thai in their first encounter in April, in what could be a title eliminator.
Their first fight set the wheels in motion for Haggerty’s heated clash with Andrade, who in turn had been in Lobo’s corner that morning.
Lobo was fighting on the undercard of Haggerty’s Muay Thai title win against Nong-O Hama at the same venue, and Andrade exchanged words on social media with the new champion after the event.
The 26-year-old “Wonder Boy” Andrade apologised to his fans on social media this week after his defeat by Haggerty.
“Sorry I couldn’t get a win to those who were supporting me, it was not the result we wanted but we are gonna learn from it,” he wrote in an Instagram post.
“I was enjoying the fight, everything was going well, but he caught me good with that high kick. Congratulations to him and his team, would love to run it back sometime.
“I will be back soon.”
