I’m still kicking butt and feeling great, says ageless Alain Ngalani as he prepares to wrestle ‘Burmese Python’
Hong Kong fighter focused on super bout against One Championship’s middleweight world champion Aung La Nsang on Friday night
Don’t talk to Alain “The Panther” Ngalani about age. Or the ravages time might inflict. Or even about making way for the next generation of fighters.
“Everything is still working and I’m kicking butt,” declares the 42-year-old. “All these youngsters are coming through, but I can still push them around so why stop?
“I’ll stop when I don’t feel good any more. I still feel good. In fact, I feel great.”
It took Ngalani just 11 seconds to settle his last fight but the reverberations of the knockout blow landed by the Hong Kong fighter are still rippling through the world of mixed martial arts.
Ngalani’s short, sharp and quite shocking finish of Japan’s Hideki “Shrek” Sekine at One Championship’s Total Victory card in Jakarta on September 16 was the fastest in the history of the organisation’s heavyweight division.
The buzz the result created led to its matchmakers setting up a super bout for the Hong Kong-based fighter with One’s middleweight world champ, “The Burmese Python” Aung La Nsang, in Myanmar this Friday night.
