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MANILA, Philippines - Team Lakay’s Geje “Gravity” Eustaquio, one of the most highly-skilled striking specialists in the Philippines, plays in the main card of ONE Championship’s Age of Domination on December 2 at the Mall of Asia Arena.
Eustaquio will test the striking ability of Finnish fighting sensation Toni “Dynamite” Tauru in a three-round bantamweight contest. Tauru, a grappling specialist, has 10 wins on his professional record, 7 of which came from impressive submission.
Eustaquio is not threatened, though. He thinks that Tauru has a weakness that he can exploit with his striking prowess.
“Toni likes to throw a lot of punches but I don’t think he is all that accurate. That’s one weakness that I can exploit a little bit... I like to strike, so I will try to test his ability in a striking battle,” says the Pinoy MMA artist who is coming from training camp that he describes as “one of the toughest and most satisfying yet.”
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“My conditioning is on point. We are at ninety percent right now. By fight week we’ll be at a hundred percent and I’ll be ready,” says Eustaquio, who has a unique striking advantage that will come in handy in this bout.
For most of his ONE FC career, Eustaquio has been a flyweight, stealing the ONE Flyweight World Championship belt from then champion Adriano Moraes in 2014. When ONE FC revamped its weight management policies, Eustaquio moved up a division higher to 135-lbs. He says he misses the power he had as a flyweight and is thinking of going back.
“I went up to bantamweight to try to test the waters. I had a pretty good experience. But I think I am a lot stronger as a flyweight,” he says. Eustaquio will end 2016 at bantamweight but will drop back down to flyweight in 2017.
ONE FC: Age of Domination is headlined by Brandon “The Truth” Vera, defending his ONE Heavyweight World Championship belt against Japanese MMA legend Hideki Sekine.