Saw Min Min Arrives At ONE Friday Fights 157 A Changed Fighter After Costly Mistake
Saw Min Min knows exactly why he lost his last fight. He got up too fast, too eager, and paid for it with a knockout that could have been avoided entirely. Three months of deliberate, methodical rebuilding later, he arrives at ONE Friday Fights 157 on June 5 with the same finishing power and a fundamentally different relationship with patience.
The 15-2 Doe Yoe Yar Lethwei Club representative faces four-time Muay Thai World Champion Yodlekpet “The Destroyer” Or Atchariya in the flyweight main event, live in Asia primetime from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. It is his first outing since the ONE Friday Fights 141 defeat that stopped his momentum and reset his thinking entirely.
“My biggest mistake in that fight was being too impatient and reckless,” Saw Min Min said. “My plan from the start was to charge forward and look for a knockout as quickly as possible. The first mistake was getting caught with a head kick. The second mistake was even worse. As soon as I got up, I stood up immediately even though my body hadn’t fully recovered yet.”
The response has been thorough. Overseas training in Poland followed by a three-week camp in Mae Sot near his hometown on the Myanmar border has rebuilt both his physical condition and the mental framework around how he approaches exchanges inside the ring.
“After that fight, I trained extremely hard,” he said. “Right now, both my body and my mind are 100 percent ready for this fight.”
Yodlekpet presents every test Saw Min Min failed to handle in his last outing — relentless forward pressure, heavy low kicks designed to strip mobility, and six career knockouts in ONE Championship that make him one of the most dangerous finishers at flyweight. Saw Min Min has studied that pattern and arrived at a counter-strategy built on letting the Thai come forward and making him pay for it.
“I see Yodlekpet as an incredibly strong and durable fighter. His most dangerous weapon is his left hand because he’s a southpaw. He also has very dangerous elbows,” he said. “My main strategy is to counter on the second beat. I’ll let Yodlekpet be the one who comes forward and initiates the action, then I’ll use my accuracy to counter him with clean shots.”
The Lethwei background that gave Saw Min Min his durability and instinct for close-range exchanges now serves a different purpose. Rather than colliding with Yodlekpet’s forward pressure, he intends to redirect it.
“I need to use his strength to my advantage,” he said. “If he’s eager to pressure me and come forward, I’ll stay composed and wait for him to throw first. Then I’ll use his own momentum and impact against him, turning it into powerful counterattacks aimed at the most important targets. I truly believe that I will knock him out in this fight.”
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