Stamp Fairtex says her ONE Fight Night 47 main event is about more than adding another win. The former three-sport champion wants to erase the doubts left by her last performance, solve Selina Flores’ length, and put herself back on the road to MMA gold.
Stamp and Flores headline Friday’s atomweight Muay Thai card at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok. The event streams on Prime Video at 9 p.m. ET on September 4. Stamp returned from a long injury layoff with a split-decision win over Cynthia Flores in June, but she was not satisfied with how she looked.
“The most important thing in this fight is beating Selina to get my confidence back and restore the fans’ faith in me. I need to redeem myself after the last fight because everyone said my performance was really bad and that I didn’t fight well at all. It’s a chance to make up for that. I’ll give it everything I’ve got. I’m excited just like I am for every fight, and I hope this is a fight that people in America will tune in for.”
The fight follows the original ONE Fight Night 47 booking. Flores has since predicted she can finish Stamp and earn a title opportunity, but Stamp’s assessment of the American is respectful.
“I’ve watched her fighting style. She has long legs and long arms, and her teep is good enough that I think she deserves the nickname ‘Teep Queen.’ She’s also good at fighting offensively and defensively. Selena likes making videos where she goes around interviewing people and asking if they know how to fight and things like that. I think it’s an interesting way to build an identity and put yourself out there. I’ve seen them. A lot of people call Selena an influencer, but I believe she’s a real fighter.”
Stamp Plans To Pressure Flores’ Range
Flores’ long frame and teep create the obvious tactical question. Stamp believes the openings will appear when Flores commits to offense, allowing the shorter fighter to close distance with heavier attacks.
“She leaves her face open when she focuses on strikes, and those moments will leave openings for me to get in and do some damage. I’m the shorter one, too, and I guess being shorter is an advantage. I also think my weapons will be heavier because she might be faster, but I don’t think her attacks are quite as powerful.”
“What should make this fight exciting is probably when I have to come forward and try to score. She’s longer than me, so she’ll have to maintain her distance and use her kicks and punches from her range. I’ll have to be the one coming forward.”
The matchup adds another important striking main event to ONE’s calendar after the promotion also booked Regian Eersel’s rematch with George Jarvis.
An MMA Return Remains The Bigger Goal
Stamp won ONE titles in Muay Thai, kickboxing, and MMA before injury interrupted her run. She now says MMA feels like her most natural ruleset and remains central to the comeback.
“I hope I can compete under the rules I’m most comfortable with, which is MMA. Was I naturally better at it than Muay Thai? No. But right now, I feel like it suits me the most. I’ve been doing Muay Thai since I was a kid. But MMA has become more natural for me. I also want to reclaim my status as a three-sport World Champion. Everyone still calls me that, so I hope I can achieve it and really do it. If I get the opportunity to do it, I want to. I want to get back to the place where I used to stand out.”
