And that I believe is what makes me different. But now I’m more seasoned, I learned to block the outside noises that I have no control of but focus on the forces that I do. When I was younger, I used to defend myself. There will be people who praise you and people who despise. Naturally, when under the spotlight, there will be lovers and haters. As for me, it does not matter which ground I stand on, I will never forget who I am and what I want to achieve in this sport. “That’s what sets champions apart from the rest. Champions do more than people who think that they’ve done more.'” Jing Nan quoted. “Like what Ronda Rousey said, ‘Champions always do more. But she believes that she stands out for more reasons than just that. Because of that, Xiong Jing Nan is truly standing on an island all on her own.
Taking on the unbeaten four-fight ONE Championship veteran in Tiffany Teo, Jing Nan would rise to the occasion in impressive fashion as the two battled it out for three and a half rounds until The Panda closed the show via strikes thus making her the first and only Chinese champion in a major MMA organization. If that regular pressure from her homeland wasn’t enough, add on that her second fight in ONE would be for the strawweight championship, her first time fighting for a title belt. And it has always been a champion’s mission to carry on others’ hope and dreams alongside your own.” “Pressure? Absolutely! But pressure means motivation to me. “I feel proud to see my country being heard in this field,” she said. Because for the bar to be set high, it needs to be set in the first place.
With Chinese MMA’s growth and Jing Nan’s fast success, two things that are cohesive, it forced her to perhaps get better in a quicker timely fashion as well. “I want to tell the world that there’s always hope if you do not give up.” PhotoCred: ONE Championshipįollowing the loss, Jing Nan would win four more bouts before getting the call in 2017 to fight in ONE Championship, her biggest stage yet. “Once you stand on the global stage, you are not only yourself, you carry on the hope of your family, your city, your country and all the people that ever believed in you and supported you no matter what,” Jing Nan told The Body Lock.
XIONG JING NAN STOPS FIGHT FULL
There is only one way to go and that’s forward or back… and Jing Nan took the former and went full steam ahead as a strong representative of her country. As rough as the first loss can be, it will act as a make or break type of point in a fighter’s career. In Jing Nan’s sixth career bout, she would face Colleen Schneider and suffer her first and only career defeat. It would be five straight fights and five straight victories via finish for the Jining native all of which came in the span of eight months. In her two bouts that followed, two knockouts would be added to her resume thus providing a good sample size for what the future held. Despite that, she’s gone on to achieve the best success in the shortest amount of time.ĭebuting in August 2014, Jing Nan joined the notable Chinese MMA promotion, Kunlun Fights where she took on Inna Hutsul and won via first-round armbar in just 51 seconds. Having started competing professionally the most recently in comparison to her UFC counterparts in Weili Zhang and Yan Xiaonan, is ‘The Panda’ Xiong Jing Nan. But for MMA in 2019, multiple athletes are starting to make some serious noise from the land of the dragon. Obviously, that could make for an incredible amount of weight and pressure to put on a single individuals shoulders to lead the way for the rest.
One of the biggest possible support systems that a fighter could have in terms of the country is that of China… which, in fact, would make for the absolute biggest as the nation holds the largest population in the world with 1.4 billion residents.
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