James Yang expects all-out war against Keanu Subba

James Yang has one easy expectation for his second struggle below ONE Championship and that could be a pure barnburner in opposition to Keanu Subba.

Yang and Subba’s combined martial arts match will kick off ONE 156: Eersel vs. Sadikovic on Friday, which will likely be broadcast reside from the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Yang, who’s Demetrious Johnson’s protégé at AMC Pankration, mentioned he’s anticipating an all-out slugfest in opposition to Subba of their featherweight contest. He identified that each of them are certain to search for an explosive end of their three-round contest.

Throughout ONE Championship’s digital media day, James Yang mentioned:

“He’s going to attempt to kill me. [There’s going to be] a violent end.”

The 32-year-old made a rousing ONE Championship debut in September 2021 when he dominated Filipino veteran Roel Rosauro. Yang used a superior wrestling sport to grind out Rosauro earlier than incomes a technical knockout win within the second spherical.

Subba, in the meantime, has a powerful 100% ending fee with 4 of his seven wins coming through submission whereas the opposite three are through knockout.

Regardless of his opponent’s offensive pedigree, Yang isn’t bothered one bit. He added:

“I do know he is had a number of competitors, however he additionally has a number of mileage, you realize, within the ONE circle I all the time say this, like, except that man has like three arms and 4 legs, he is not gonna pose a risk that I’ve by no means seen or felt earlier than. I have been attacked by a number of individuals, like three, or 5 guys leaping on me, and I needed to struggle them off. Nothing’s going to be worse than that. Yeah, one particular person, one man has not given me sufficient to love, make me really feel like ‘Oh, my God, I’ve by no means seen this or felt this earlier than.’”

James Yang says studying below Demetrious Johnson is all the time enjoyable

Enjoyable might not be an acceptable adjective to explain combined martial arts, however James Yang begges to vary. He mentioned that he all the time needs to create a light-weight ambiance at any time when he trains with Johnson, and ‘Mighty Mouse’ is identical with him.

The coaching companions additionally be certain that to by no means spend all of their time within the health club and that they need to take pleasure in life as a lot as doable. Yang mentioned:

“We’re all the time seeking to assist one another out, and get higher. And you realize, what I do for him was to verify he was relaxed, joyful, and having enjoyable. He is doing the identical factor for me.”

Yang added that he and Johnson even went out to observe Jared Leto’s action-adventure movie Morbius in the course of his struggle preparations.

“Final night time, we went and watched Morbius, the brand new Sony Marvel film, after which that film was not, I imply, I do not wish to discuss s*** about it. However I imply, everybody was telling us how unhealthy it was. And we’re like, ‘no, it could’t be that unhealthy.’ You recognize, it was solely going up from right here. And we watched it. And like that was not good. It wasn’t fairly. It was fairly unhealthy.”