Eduard Folayang aims to rediscover Singapore magic in comeback fight

By Leobert Julian A. de la Peña

 

Eduard “The Landslide” Folayang couldn’t stop thinking where his legendary MMA career started.

After making a name for himself and Team Lakay in Singapore, the former ONE lightweight champion is hoping to revamp his career where it all started for him, a place not only good to him but also his career.

“Napaka-importante nito para sa’kin, sa team ko, and sa bayan na rin kasi gusto natin makuha ‘yung belt for the third time. And it always starts in Singapore because maganda ang experiences natin doon,” said Folayang.

To recall, Folayang’s first international call-ups as a starting MMA fighter all started in Singapore.

After racking up a winning streak, Folayang began to turn heads abroad and made it to the headlines of ONE: Champion vs Champion way back in 2011.

It seemed like the Filipino sensation can’t get beaten in Singapore and began to create another chapter in his blossoming MMA career after clinching his first ONE lightweight belt in September 2016.

And now, with another opportunity to go back in the winning column after ONE announced the Filipino will be squaring off against Antonio “The Spartan” Caruso in the undercard of ONE: Inside the Matrix on October 30, Folayang is excited to start his journey again in Singapore.

“We’re claiming Eduard to be the lightweight champion again. I believe in him, and for as long as the fire is still there I believe he can still do it,” said head coach Mark Sangiao of Team Lakay.