Like many who vow to step inside the ONE cage, Gaol’s journey into the world of martial arts began with a quest to earn respect. “Thathie” will get an opportunity to get a win streak going this coming Friday, 23 February, when she meets Filipino debutante Krisna “Phoenix” Limbaga at ONE: QUEST FOR GOLD, which broadcasts from the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar. Gaol dominated Audreylaura Boniface in front of her countrymen, and defeated her via TKO in the first round. In January, at ONE: KINGS OF COURAGE at the Jakarta Convention Center, she was certainly on form.
“I have to keep training harder and keep my focus. “What I learned from my losses is I will not give up,” she states. Following two tough losses to a pair of top contenders, the Jakarta native took time to get up to speed, and properly adjust to the cage. In fact, her little brother has recently taken up martial arts.Īt first, things weren’t so easy.
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Now, just after a year since she made her professional cage debut at ONE: THRONE OF TIGERS in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, there are signs that attitudes towards her profession, at least among her family, are beginning to warm. But some just have have questions like, ‘When will you stop? It is better to get another job rather than competing, because of your age.’ My family is very concerned for my safety,” the 29-year-old Indonesian explains. Some are legitimately thrilled about her professional martial arts career, but many more, like her family members, believe she should quit. When Priscilla Hertati Lumban Gaol tells her friends or neighbors about how she makes a living, she gets more than a few quizzical looks.
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