In February 2021, Dat Nguyen defeated boxer Johnny Belford to win the Bantamweight championship. However, this achievement has not made this Vietnamese -born boxer. He also plans to go straight to Heavyweight to play.
“I want to be a heavy world champion. That's the goal I target, but it seems that the organizers don't like this plan. Unless I have won two more championship belts.” Dat Nguyen said in Monday. “The current plan is to rank and compete with a big name in the tournament.”
And the plan is about to become a reality when the Dat Nguyen boxer will have a match against the Lightweight – Luis Palomino champion on November 12 at the BKFC 22 event held in Miami.
Luis Palomino comes from an experienced MMA boxer. This boxer has 43 professional MMA matches with 26 wins and 17 losses. Having played in many famous arenas such as One Championship, Bellator and World Series of Fighting. Palomino threatened that he would break the Nguyen jaw on November 12.
Dat Nguyen did not tremble at this threat. On his personal Facebook page, Dat Nguyen wrote: “It is impossible to bear a guy like this. I will die with him. There will be another bloody match on the BKFC floor.”
In addition to the battle between Dat Nguyen and Luis Palomino, the BKFC 22 event also brought the competition between Hector Lombard and Lorenzo Hunt to the Cruiserweight championship, also the focus of this event.