His older brother has been drilling him on it all camp. The head kick landed once already this year. Adam Sor Dechapan believes it lands again on May 8.<\/p>\n
Malaysian-Thai standout Adam Sor Dechapan<\/a> headlines the strawweight Muay Thai main event against French dynamo Enzo Clarisse at The Inner Circle<\/a>, streaming live for members at live.onefc.com from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, May 8. The 18-year-old enters on a two-fight winning streak, including a head kick knockout of Walid Snoussi at ONE Friday Fights 141 in February, and carries 53 career wins into his third straight promotional appearance. A victory over Clarisse would push him closer to the US$100,000 main roster contract he has been chasing since joining ONE Championship.<\/p>\n The path here ran through a lesson. Adam dropped a decision to \u201cPetsam\u201d Nahyan Mohammed in their July 2025 rematch. That result forced a reset, and the adjustment has shown in his last two performances.<\/p>\n \u201cThe loss to \u2018Petsam\u2019 taught me a lot about emotional control and keeping my cool. I realized I can\u2019t just stand there and trade based on pure emotion anymore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce I adjusted that mindset, my performance in the last two fights improved significantly. I\u2019m fighting much calmer now. I feel like I\u2019ve finally found the blueprint for how I need to fight to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Adam Sor Dechapan has studied Clarisse\u2019s guard drop and built his camp around it<\/p>\n Adam Sor Dechapan knows exactly where the opening is. He watched the tape of Clarisse\u2019s recent defeat to Jurai Ishii closely and found a pattern: the guard drops under pressure, and when it does, shots land clean.<\/p>\n This camp has been built around exploiting that tendency. His brother Aliff Sor Dechapan has been deeply involved in the preparation. He worked alongside Adam on the head kick and a double flying knee finish he has been looking to land for some time. Adam respects Clarisse\u2019s power but is not adjusting his ambition.<\/p>\n \u201cIn his last fight, I noticed he couldn\u2019t keep up with his opponent\u2019s speed, and his guard dropped frequently, which led to him getting tagged repeatedly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cFor this fight, I\u2019m going to use movement and feints to bait him into dropping his guard again, then capitalize with the weapons I\u2019ve prepared. Aliff has been teaching me a lot of Muay Thai moves, especially that head kick. If I see him drop his guard, you\u2019ll definitely see me go for it again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His older brother has been drilling him on it all camp. The head kick landed once already this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[242061,49,48,641,638,1865,82,242062],"class_list":["post-652309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-adam-sor-dechapan","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-sports","tag-the-inner-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}