{"id":24585,"date":"2026-08-06T04:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24585"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:22:14","slug":"dayakaev-superlek-rematch-carries-potential-title-shot-as-its-real-prize-at-the-inner-circle-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24585","title":{"rendered":"Dayakaev-Superlek rematch carries potential title shot as its real prize at The Inner Circle 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-label\">Trending:<\/span><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border\"\/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border-2\"\/>REPORT: Charles Oliveira set to defend BMF title in UFC 331 headliner<span class=\"photo-credit\">ONE Championship<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A split decision was never going to be the last word between these two.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulla Dayakaev runs it back with \u201cThe Kicking Machine\u201d Superlek in a bantamweight Muay Thai rematch at The Inner Circle 25, streaming live in Asia primetime from Bangkok\u2019s Lumpinee Stadium on Friday, August 7, exclusively for subscribers at live.onefc.com. Dayakaev walked away with the split-decision win in their first meeting, but a large portion of the fanbase still believes Superlek did enough to earn it.<\/p>\n<p>That lingering debate is not the only thing riding on this fight. Dayakaev\u2019s own Team Mehdi Zatout teammate, Nabil Anane, recently lost the bantamweight Muay Thai World Title to Rambolek Chor Ajalaboon, the same fighter who knocked out Dayakaev in January.<\/p>\n<p>A statement win over Superlek puts Dayakaev back in that title conversation, and the 24-year-old has made clear he intends to leave zero doubt about who the better man is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think about that fight. I know I won it. You cannot win if you do everything for one round. I won two rounds. This time I will do better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not prepared for clinching with him [in the third round]. I went into the last round thinking we would fight in the middle, and I was not ready for that. But now I\u2019m ready for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Abdulla Dayakaev eyes redemption and gold<\/h2>\n<p>Six of Dayakaev\u2019s nine ONE Championship victories have come by knockout. It\u2019s a finishing rate that has not slowed down just because the stakes of this rematch are personal. He has said a win here is the kind of result that could push him toward a title opportunity of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Dayakaev has also stated plainly that beating Superlek would settle more than a scoreline, it would settle how this rivalry gets remembered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I win against Superlek, I want to fight Rambolek. [That] guy stopped me one step before [a possible] title shot. So for me it\u2019s good motivation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope they give me a title shot in the next fight. I saw how my little brother [Asadula Imangazaliev] won the belt, and this gives me extra motivation. I also want a belt. I will do everything for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1 mt-0 os-source\">This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/abdulla-dayakaev\/dayakaev-superlek-rematch-carries-potential-title-shot-as-its-real-prize-at-the-inner-circle-25\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dayakaev-superlek-rematch-carries-potential-title-shot-as-its-real-prize-at-the-inner-circle-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending:REPORT: Charles Oliveira set to defend BMF title in UFC 331 headlinerONE Championship A split decision was never going to be the last word between these two. Abdulla Dayakaev runs it back with \u201cThe Kicking Machine\u201d Superlek in a bantamweight Muay Thai rematch at The Inner Circle 25, streaming live in Asia primetime from Bangkok\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2898,6544,11238,757,5103,1601,56,315,43],"class_list":["post-24585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fighters","tag-carries","tag-circle","tag-dayakaevsuperlek","tag-potential","tag-prize","tag-real","tag-rematch","tag-shot","tag-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}