Hyu Targets First-Round Finish Against Suablack At ONE Fight Night 41
Hyu has not lost a professional fight in his life. On Friday night, he intends to keep it that way in the most emphatic fashion possible.
The 23-year-old Japanese phenom faces Suablack Tor Pran49 in a flyweight kickboxing bout at ONE Fight Night 41: Sinsamut vs. Jarvis on Prime Video, live in U.S. primetime on March 13 from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
“I think I’ll be in a dominant position within the first minute,” the Team Mehdi Zatout and TEAM3K representative said. “I’ve been building my approach that way in training, and my form is good. I’m fully planning to go for the finish in the first round.”
The unbeaten Osaka native has swept through four ONE Championship outings to extend his flawless 12-0 professional record, collecting stoppages over Leandro Miranda and Zakaria El Jamari before battling back from adversity to finish Jordan Estupinan in the third round at ONE Fight Night 35 last September. That performance earned him a US$50,000 performance bonus and signalled to the division that Hyu is the real deal.
Suablack represents a significant step up. The NP Suablack affiliate carries 62 career victories and a reputation built on sharp technical striking, high fight IQ, and devastating finishing power. Four consecutive knockouts on the ONE Friday Fights platform earned him the six-figure contract that brought him to this stage.
Hyu has studied his opponent thoroughly and arrived at a precise tactical picture.
“His defense is quite good. It’s not just about throwing punches, he’s thinking about what the opponent is targeting while he attacks. He’s an outside boxer, and he’s also someone who uses his head a lot during the fight.”
That intelligence, however, has its limits. Hyu has identified Suablack’s left straight as his primary punching weapon and noted a back-weighted stance that he believes opens clear lines of attack.
The karate-turned-kickboxing prodigy has built his game around reading patterns in real time, and his sense of distance is the weapon he trusts most.
“I can read the opponent’s attack patterns and build my game plan during the fight. He’s physically very solid too, but I want to apply pressure in my usual way.”
The promise at the end of that thought is direct and unambiguous.
“I won’t let him escape.”
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