With three wins in his four ONE FC fights, Jake Butler is still a frontrunner for the inaugural light heavyweight title, but his momentum was rudely interrupted by a second-round TKO loss to Sylvain Potard late last year. It was a painful lesson for Butler, who dominated his three previous opponents, but the former NCAA Division One level wrestler knows exactly where he went wrong. “I was too relaxed in my last fight, and I didn’t respect my opponent enough. I should have fought with a greater sense of urgency and stuck to the strategy that my coaches had planned for me,” Butler said He has the opportunity to make amends at ONE FC: War of Dragons on Friday, but despite coming off a defeat matchmakers have handed him an opponent who is even more dangerous than his last one, a point proven by the fact that Egyptian Mohamed Ali holds a TKO win over Potard.
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