The Evolve MMA athlete was frustrated by her opponent’s solid defense, but it did not sidetrack her quest to take the contest to the canvas.Īt her third attempt, she managed to take it to the mat, but Stamp quickly brought the action back to the feet, showing her Indian rival that she had fully prepared for her game plan, and her refusal to fall while up against the Circle Wall continued to make life difficult for Phogat. When “The Indian Tigress” attempted yet another takedown, she failed again and was hit by another one of the former two-sport queen’s knees. But Stamp – the former ONE Atomweight Muay Thai and Kickboxing World Champion – diffused the situation with a sprawl before catching Phogat’s head and unleashing a left knee. Phogat came out of her corner aggressively once the opening bell sounded, tossing out a couple of feints and then shooting for a takedown. The Thai megastar banished talks of her weakness in the grappling department and displayed her evolution as a mixed martial artist by submitting Ritu “The Indian Tigress” Phogat via armbar en route to claiming the historic tournament’s prestigious silver belt. However, the former two-sport queen’s submission savvy proved to be the deciding factor at ONE: WINTER WARRIORS in Singapore on Friday, 3 December. Sunday’s Bathurst 1000 gets underway at 2.15pm, with Stuff’s live blog beginning at 2pm.Stamp Fairtex’s biggest flaw going into the ONE Women’s Atomweight World Grand Prix Championship Final was her ground game. Macauley Jones, who is partnering with Kiwi Chris Pither, was the 22nd quickest. Van Gisbergen was the only Kiwi involved in the shootout as the others didn’t finish Friday’s qualifying inside the top 10.Īndre Heimgartner will start Sunday’s race 17th on the grid and Fabian Coulthard will be a further three places behind. We won from fourth last year, and I’ve won from 10th before, so you can quickly forget about the shootout once the race starts tomorrow.” “We’ll start the race in P7 tomorrow, and although it’s nice to start on pole, it’s not important. “We now have plenty of data and information to make the call on what we do for the race tomorrow, so overall it was a productive day. “It’s going to be a lot different about 10-degrees cooler than the temperatures that we’ve had all of our practice sessions in, so everything we did today was about building options for tomorrow and we’ll decide what we do to the race car to suit the weather tomorrow. “I think the big thing about tomorrow is going to be the weather,” Tander said. Van Gisbergen’s co-driver, Garth Tander, was also optimistic about the chances of the duo claiming back-to-back Bathurst 1000 titles. We had a fantastic car and fantastic pace last year, so we’ve got some focus areas which we can hopefully make better in the race, but it’s going to be a long day.” “Coming into tomorrow it looks like the weather will be a lot cooler, and fingers crossed that helps our race car.
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“I’m not too sure how to diagnose the car but qualifying is behind us now and full focus turns to the start of the race and how we’ll tackle the 161-laps around The Mountain. “We’ve obviously been lacking in qualifying pace this week, and P7 is where we’ll start the race tomorrow afternoon,” he said. Speaking again later, Van Gisbergen admitted he didn’t have the quickest car for qualifying, but was optimistic about his chances in the race.