Muay Thai fighter Stergos Mikkios: I’ve always been the underdog

Ognjen Topic, Stergos Mikkios

Greek-American martial artist Stergos “The Greek Dynamite” Mikkios, 28, holds a professional Muay Thai record of 19 wins, 9 losses and 2 draws. After competing mainly in the United States, he joined ONE Championship’s striking-only league ONE Super Series.

“What I am really proud of is that I have always been the underdog since the beginning,” Mikkios stated. “I have been facing big-name amateur athletes, and no one knew who I was, and that is how I got known in the United States. For me, it was just going after all these big names with big records, and showing what I really had.”

In Mikkios’s ONE Championship debut, which was on May 12, 2018 at “ONE: Grit and Glory,” he encountered a stern test in the form of Serbian Lion Fight World Champion Ognjen Topic, 32. The Greek-American fighter’s promotional debut did not go as he would have hoped with his Serbian opponent cruising to a unanimous decision victory.

Now, Mikkios is setting himself up for another comeback much like he has done all his life. He will try to record his first win on the ONE Super Series stage on September 8, 2018 at “ONE: Beyond the Horizon” at the Baoshan Arena in Shanghai, China where he is set to compete against Han Zi Zao, 23, of China in a Muay Thai contest.

Aside from being more experienced that Mikkios, Han has the hometown crowd advantage in Shanghai. Having made a name for himself by defying the odds, the Greek-American contender is once again the underdog and that is nothing foreign to him.

Watch the bout between Mikkios and Topic here:

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