Stamp Fairtex Eyes Redemption And A Return To MMA Beyond Selina Flores Clash
Stamp Fairtex has already accomplished something no other fighter in ONE Championship history can claim, and yet the 28-year-old still walks into Friday, September 4, carrying something to prove.
The former three-sport ONE World Champion headlines ONE Fight Night 47 on Prime Video against two-time WBC Muay Thai World Champion Selina “Teep Queen” Flores in an atomweight Muay Thai main event, streaming live from Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium.
Stamp’s last outing, a split-decision win over Cynthia Flores at The Inner Circle 20, snapped a lengthy layoff caused by injury and surgery. The result itself pleased her, but the performance did not.
“The most important thing in this fight is beating Selina to get my confidence back and restore the fans’ faith in me,” she said. “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.”
Preparation for this rematch with relevance has gone beyond film study alone. Stamp has closely followed Flores’ online presence, including her viral video series interviewing strangers about their fighting ability.
“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,'” Stamp said. “A lot of people call Selena an influencer, but I believe she’s a real fighter.”
Stamp also broke down where she believes the fight will be decided, pointing to her height and durability as the deciding factors against her longer opponent.
“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,” she said. “I’m the shorter one, too, and I guess being shorter is an advantage.”
Looking past Friday, Stamp’s ambitions circle back to the discipline that completed her historic three-sport run in the first place.
“I hope I can compete under the rules I’m most comfortable with, which is MMA,” she said. “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.”
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