BOCA RATON, Fla. – Tyrone Spong has been competing in fight sports activities for greater than 20 years, however he’s nonetheless pushed to search out recent experiences.
Spong is among the few athletes who has discovered success at a excessive stage in kickboxing, boxing and MMA by the course of his profession, even when a few of his potential was hindered by accidents.
he hasn’t seen any type of motion in 14 months since he made a return to MMA to lose a fundamental occasion struggle in opposition to Sergei Kharitonov underneath the Eagle FC banner. It’s been a helpful layoff, although, Spong stated, as a result of he traveled to his native Suriname and took a while to heal his thoughts and physique.
“I feel in life normally it’s a necessity to actually do one thing for your self, on your soul,” Spong informed MMA Junkie of his journey by the Suriname jungle. “On your spirit, and that’s what I went and did.”
At 37 and with a recent mindset, Spong stated he’s “open to every little thing” so far as subsequent profession steps. He’s not contractually linked to anybody in the meanwhile, and with the fight sports activities scene exploding in varied other ways, Spong is keen to contemplate a transfer in any path.
“The panorama of preventing is altering quickly,” Spong stated. “There’s a whole lot of new promotions, a whole lot of new kinds of preventing. So, it’s a superb time to be a fighter.
“Proper now I’m again, I’m hungry, I’m motivated, I’m within the fitness center daily. I’m simply getting in form and preparing for no matter. Let’s discuss to (my supervisor) Ali (Abdelaziz) about that and see what he’s bought for me. Aside from that I’m feeling good.”
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Sergei Kharitonov def. Tyrone Spong at Eagle FC 44: Finest pictures
