{"id":24939,"date":"2026-08-08T03:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24939"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:40:56","slug":"liu-mengyang-aiming-for-second-victory-over-noiri-at-one-samurai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24939","title":{"rendered":"Liu Mengyang aiming for second victory over Noiri at ONE SAMURAI 2"},"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\"\/>Conor McGregor didn\u2019t want to fight at UFC 329, says Din Thomas<span class=\"photo-credit\">ONE Championship<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old with a growing resume is squaring off against a 33-year-old former champion, and the numbers behind both men tell two very different stories.<\/p>\n<p>Their first meeting in December 2024 went to Liu by unanimous decision in his promotional debut, handing Noiri the first consecutive-loss stretch of his career. Liu Mengyang rematches him in a quarterfinal of the ONE SAMURAI Featherweight Kickboxing Tournament at ONE SAMURAI 2, streaming live from Tokyo\u2019s EBARA WAVE Arena Ota on Saturday, August 8, carrying a 36-7 career record with 11 finishes and a three-fight ONE Championship winning streak into the sequel.<\/p>\n<p>Noiri brings a 51-14 record and a former interim title into Saturday\u2019s rematch, along with the backing of a home Tokyo crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see any real threats from him in the rematch at all, and I will fight with total ease and control inside the cage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy greatest strengths are my unbreakable willpower and relentless fighting spirit, paired with the hyper-specific game plans my coach designs for every opponent. That will carry me to victory in this kickboxing tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Masaaki Noiri record faces youth and momentum against Liu Mengyang<\/h2>\n<p>Since beating Noiri, Liu has continued climbing, adding statement wins to his ledger while Noiri has spent the months since his own November title loss to Superbon searching for a path back to gold.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of Saturday\u2019s quarterfinal advances toward a guaranteed shot at reigning ONE Featherweight Kickboxing World Champion Superbon, a prize both men have stated is their ultimate target regardless of what happens between them first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter sharing the cage with Masaaki Noiri, I can say his fighting style is extremely one-dimensional. He\u2019s good at seizing openings and timing his strikes well, but his overall game plan is still very one-dimensional in my opinion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMasaaki Noiri: If you get KO\u2019d again this time, don\u2019t claim you just let your guard down. It\u2019s simply because you\u2019re past your prime, and it\u2019s time for you to retire.\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\/liu-mengyang\/liu-mengyang-aiming-for-second-victory-over-noiri-at-one-samurai-2\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=liu-mengyang-aiming-for-second-victory-over-noiri-at-one-samurai-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending:Conor McGregor didn\u2019t want to fight at UFC 329, says Din ThomasONE Championship A 23-year-old with a growing resume is squaring off against a 33-year-old former champion, and the numbers behind both men tell two very different stories. Their first meeting in December 2024 went to Liu by unanimous decision in his promotional debut, handing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[8694,710,711,9644,4583,82],"class_list":["post-24939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-aiming","tag-liu","tag-mengyang","tag-noiri","tag-samurai","tag-victory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939","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=24939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}