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MMA: Team Lakay embraces pressure ahead of successive cards

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Team Lakay" s="" Danny="" Kingad.="" File="" Handout="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/ancx/drive/2019/04/dk-banner.png"/><figcaption>Team Lakay&#x27;s Danny Kingad. File/Handout photo</figcaption></figure></div><p><br/>ONE Championship has four massive shows this November and December, and two of them will feature Team Lakay.</p><p>Bantamweight contenders Stephen Loman and Kevin Belingon are scheduled for ONE Fight Night 4: Abbasov vs. Lee on November 19 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, while their Team Lakay stablemates will close out the year in December.</p><p>ONE strawweight champion Joshua Pacio will defend the gold against Jarred Brooks in the main event of ONE 164: Pacio vs. Brooks on December 3 at Mall of Asia Arena.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/09/21/22/one-warrior-series-to-open-doors-for-local-mma-fighters">MMA: ONE Warrior Series to open doors for local MMA fighters, says Team Lakay coach</a></li></ul><p>Geje Eustaquio, Danny Kingad, Jeremy Pacatiw, and Jenelyn Olsim will also compete at ONE 164.</p><p>With so many from his stable fighting, Team Lakay head coach Mark Sangiao admitted that there is indeed pressure for them to come out victorious. </p><p>Nevertheless, Sangiao knows that a busy schedule is just another challenge for his famed gym.</p><p>“Much pressure, but who says pressure is not good? We are taking the pressure as a strong force pushing us to train well today and train better tomorrow,” said Sangiao.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/04/06/22/team-lakay-not-surprised-with-folayangs-win-vs-parr">MMA: Team Lakay not surprised with Folayang&#x27;s win vs Parr</a></li></ul><p>“Overwhelmed, yes I am. My hands sweat every time I see the fight matches for Singapore this November and December in Manila. But we are warriors from the mountains, we take every fight as a hunting game.”</p><p>Loman, the no.4-ranked bantamweight contender, will have the biggest fight of his career when he faces former ONE bantamweight champion Bibiano Fernandes at ONE Fight Night 4.</p><p>Belingon, a former ONE bantamweight champion, will welcome Kim Jae Woong, the former no.1-ranked featherweight contender, into the 145-pound division at the same Singapore card.</p><p>ONE 164, however, will be the busiest card for Team Lakay with five of its fighters set to step inside the Circle at ONE Championship’s final event of the year.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/03/22/sea-games-pinoy-kickboxers-get-some-team-lakay-lift">SEA Games: Pinoy kickboxers get some Team Lakay lift</a></li></ul><p>Olsim will face Chinese star Meng Bo while Jeremy Pacatiw will take on Myanmar’s Tial Thang in the lead card of the event. </p><p>Eustaquio, a former ONE flyweight champion, will try to get his third straight win when he squares up against China’s Hu Yong.</p><p>Related video:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LAciq5Lcjbk?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

ONE Championship has four massive shows this November and December, and two of them will feature Team Lakay.