In the "ONE: Tigers Out of the Mountains" large-scale fighting event held on February 11, China's Chen Rui and Mark Abelardo, a New Zealander known as "Tyson", won the unanimous recognition with his excellent strike skills and extremely tenacious will quality. Recently, Chen Rui also challenged the legendary fighter Kevin Belingon on social media and said that he was ready to fight it at any time.
Chen Rui wrote on his personal social media: First of all, I salute Kevin Bellinggang! You were previously a young welterweight world champion and are still one of the best athletes in the ONE Championship. I want to challenge you to test my standing skills, especially since you are a representative figure of the martial art Sanda, I promise this will be an extraordinary battle, we will bring three rounds of non-stop stand-up attack to boxing fans, everyone will love and remember this battle forever! I will always be ready, please make this game a reality!
I have to say that Chen Rui's public challenge to Bellinggang this time is a wise and bold decision. It is wise because Belling is currently ranked fifth in the order of magnitude, and it is the right person for Chen Rui to launch an impact on the ranking. As the core figure of the Philippine Laika team of the former world champion, Belling has just gained widespread popularity, and this will surely be a high-profile game.
It was also a bold decision, and Bellingang did live up to his name as a legendary fighter, having played in the ONE Championship for 10 years and winning seven straight in the cage, including former world champion Martin Nguyen, current world champion Bibiano Fernandes, reece McLaren, currently ranked fifth in the flyweight, and so on. This also made Bellinggang a heroic figure in the Philippine fighting world for a time.
It is worth mentioning that The Laika team to which Bellingang belongs is also a mixed martial arts team based on the Chinese martial art Sanda, and Bellingang is deeply rooted in the true transmission of Sanda techniques. In the mixed martial arts arena, he played the techniques of side kicking in Sanda, swinging legs after turning, and kicking legs after turning, and the characteristics of Sanda's flexibility and mobility, and his matches were very ornamental, and he also became a representative figure of overseas Sanda mixed martial arts players with excellent records.
Although Bellingen's state has declined in recent years, his opponents are extremely competitive in addition to the active champions, and the 34-year-old Bellingang is definitely a fierce player to be taken seriously.
In addition, Chen Rui is very correct in saying that two players with superb strike levels and strong will will definitely dedicate an impressive confrontation. However, at present, Bellingang has not responded to Chen Rui's challenge, whether this game can be staged, it is still unknown, how the event will develop in the future, let us wait and see.