Baresic is fighting fit
A GOLD Coast Muay Thai fighter aiming to take down an unbeaten opponent for a Queensland title says he is confident heading into the bout.
Brandon Baresic, 20, who trains out of the Fight World gym at Oxenford, fights Abraham Rugato – who is 16 and 0 – at Mt Warren Sports
Centre on Saturday night. The pair are the headliners on the Destiny Muay Thai fight night card and are competing for the vacant WBC welterweight state title.
“My dad got me into it. He just said you have to do something you are good at,” Baresic said, adding his father Daniel told him “I see you are good at it”.
“He opened the gym for
me so when I finish fighting I have something to fall back on. I just like the sport and the tradition behind it, the style of fighting,” Baresic Jr said.
Baresic, who has had multiple training stints in Thailand – the home of Muay Thai – said in the days leading up to a big fight he started questioning why he did it: “A day before I’m going ‘why do
this, why do you want to get hurt, why do you do this?’.
“But I’m usually sweet when I get there. When I get there I’m fine.”
Baresic, who had his first fight when he was 15, said he was feeling “pretty confident” ahead of the bout.
“I have trained hard; he (Rugato) has a weird style but is not very powerful so I’m not scared of getting hurt,” he said. “I will be trying to outscore him and get the belt.”
The Assisi Catholic College alumni has been putting in four- to five-hour sessions at the gym in preparation and said his punches and low kicks were his strengths.
“I want to travel and fight on the big stages,” he said.
He gets his chance to enhance his reputation on Saturday night.