HAVING lost his father on Friday, Hisyam Samsudin scored an emotional win in ONE Championship's "Total Victory" event at the Jakarta Convention Centre late last night. Hisyam disclosed that it was his mother who gave him the strength to go on with the featherweight class fight. The next day my mum told me dad was in hospital," said Hisyam, after his fight. "When I got there (hospital), my mum told me he was not with us anymore. The "Total Victory" headliner between Kazakhstan's Kairat Akhmetov and Filipino Geje Eustaquio saw the former winning the flyweight bout via split decision.

Source: New Strait Times September 16, 2017 17:03 UTC