Shinya Aoki silences retirement talks following ONE 165 rating

Shinya Aoki has made it definite that he’s no longer willing to call it quits correct but.

This comes on the heels of Aoki’s first-spherical submission victory over damaged-down ONE Bantamweight MMA World Champion John Lineker in their openweight bout at ONE 165 this past weekend.

Leading up to his homecoming matchup at Ariake Enviornment in Tokyo, Japan, there beget been murmurs that this shall be the Eastern tale’s final wrestle.

Then again, “Tobikan Judan” dispelled these talks with a convincing efficiency. He demonstrated his grappling prowess and secured the rating by capacity of rear-naked choke.

Aoki basked in the glory of his latest triumph. Then again, he acknowledged that he’s now impending the tail-quit of his unheard of career.

“Being 40 years damaged-down, I if truth be told don’t know the procedure lengthy I will protect this up. But I’d aloof are enthusiastic to protect competing, but no longer at this high stage,” he mentioned.

“To compete at this stage, I needed to negate every single day, so traumatic, and I was as soon as very strict with myself as I was as soon as making willing to wrestle Account Northcutt, who if truth be told is one amongst the tip fighters.”

Aoki was as soon as at the open slated to face Account Northcutt at ONE 165, but fate had assorted plans.

In an swish turn of events, Northcutt needed to pull out of the matchup at the last minute. His coaches had visa problems that refrained from them from attending the affair.

This unforeseen circumstance ended in Lineker stepping in as a alternative, turning the bout into an openweight contest.

The surprising alternate in opponents surely took Aoki on an emotional roller coaster, but the seasoned feeble needed to quickly secure himself for the project at hand.

“[It] was as soon as the major time ever that I lost an opponent [before the fight]and I was as soon as on the verge of tears. But then I needed to pinch true help into wrestle mode for a assorted opponent,” he mentioned.