{"id":527850,"date":"2026-03-09T01:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527850\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:43:11","slug":"mma-fighter-with-hong-kong-roots-wants-to-fight-at-home-make-film-with-jackie-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527850\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA fighter with Hong Kong roots wants to fight at \u2018home\u2019, make film with Jackie Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Mixed martial artist Lone\u2019er Kavanagh has said he would definitely commit to shooting a film with one of Hong Kong\u2019s biggest action stars if such a chance were ever to arise.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fresh off his career-biggest win, over former UFC flyweight champion Brandon Moreno last month, Kavanagh, whose mother is from Hong Kong, also said he enjoyed fighting at places that \u201cfelt like home\u201d, including China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The odds were stacked against the 26-year-old, who took the fight on just three weeks\u2019 notice in early February. He was fighting the Mexican Moreno, a former two-time UFC flyweight champion, in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, Kavanagh, who was unranked heading into the fight, produced a mature performance to win by unanimous decision, improving his career record to 10-1.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt still feels surreal, you know. It\u2019s hard to [express] how it feels, it\u2019s hard to put into words,\u201d Kavanagh, who was born in and lives in London, said. \u201cI just feel very grateful, I feel very blessed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lone\u2019er Kavanagh (left) beat Jose Ochoa in Macau, after which he visited Hong Kong. Photo: Zuffa LLC\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/e4294286-9be7-4a6a-a008-a36f4834d0f5_8d548d6f.jpg\" title=\"Lone\u2019er Kavanagh (left) beat Jose Ochoa in Macau, after which he visited Hong Kong. Photo: Zuffa LLC\"\/>Lone\u2019er Kavanagh (left) beat Jose Ochoa in Macau, after which he visited Hong Kong. Photo: Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cObviously, I want to get to the top as quickly as possible. So I am going to speak to my manager, my coaches, and then we\u2019ll see what\u2019s next after my break,\u201d the No 6 fighter in the UFC flyweight class added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mixed martial artist Lone\u2019er Kavanagh has said he would definitely commit to shooting a film with one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[3361,64,63,41112,512,786,16813,10340,155603,114028,2022,255822,53573,23956,785,92332,262397,4933,85,787,72908],"class_list":{"0":"post-527850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-brandon-moreno","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-fighting","14":"tag-flyweight","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-jackie-chan","17":"tag-jet-li","18":"tag-london","19":"tag-loneer-kavanagh","20":"tag-macau","21":"tag-mexico-city","22":"tag-mma","23":"tag-muay-thai","24":"tag-sammo-hung","25":"tag-shanghai","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-ufc","28":"tag-ultimate-fighting-championship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}