{"id":7232,"date":"2017-08-24T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.holaamericanews.com\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2017-08-24T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:35:00","slug":"tiffany-time-bomb-van-soest-has-first-title-defense-in-chicago-at-glory-44-this-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/tiffany-time-bomb-van-soest-has-first-title-defense-in-chicago-at-glory-44-this-friday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany \u201cTime Bomb\u201d Van Soest has first title defense in Chicago at Glory 44 this Friday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Her opponent may have changed, but for Glory Kickboxing\u2019s Super Bantamweight champion, Tiffany \u201cTime Bomb\u201d Van Soest (17-2-1), the game plan is the same. And that is to defend her title. \u201cThey say that its not as difficult to become a champion, its more difficult to stay a champion,\u201d explained Van Soest, who will now face Meryum Uslu (36-10-1) instead of Funda Alkayis tomorrow night in the main event of the Glory Super Fight Series live from the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, a suburb of Chicago, IL. This will also be streaming live on UFC Fight Pass.<\/p>\n

In April of 2016, Van Soest shocked the combat world when she not only signed on as Glory Kickboxing\u2019s newest member, but on the same day signed a contract with Invicta FC, MMA\u2019s largest all women\u2019s organization. \u201cIt\u2019s not hard to go back and forth from MMA to kickboxing,\u201d said Van Soest. \u201cCutting down to 115 for MMA then going back up (for Glory) is a piece of cake.\u201d<\/p>

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And unless you live under a rock, you will notice that Van Soest\u2019s fight is on the eve of combat sports potentially biggest fights in history as MMA\u2019s Conor McGregor will try to give boxing\u2019s undefeated Floyd Mayweather his first loss on Saturday night. \u201cEveryone is talking about it,\u201d said Van Soest. \u201cPeople are going to tune in because of the magnitude of what it is. It\u2019s like to old boxing days but with much more money than before. Its crazy how much energy there is around it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Athletes taking chances and trying new things is what Tiffany did when she went from kickboxer to mixed martial artist last year. It is what McGregor is doing Saturday night when he steps into the boxing ring instead of his usual octagon and Van Soest stresses that is what needs to be done if you want to grow as an athlete. \u201cLife is all about stepping outside of your comfort zone,\u201d explained Van Soest. \u201cThat\u2019s where the most growth happens but there is a way to do it. Put your time in, get your experience and get your foundation on one skillset so the rest of your skills can be built around that.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you have never seen \u201cTime Bomb\u201d at work, her message is pretty clear on what you are going to get from her on fight night. \u201cYou are going to see how striking is supposed to look,\u201d explained Van Soest. \u201cThat\u2019s how kickboxing is supposed to look at an elite world class level.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Her opponent may have changed, but for Glory Kickboxing\u2019s Super Bantamweight champion, Tiffany \u201cTime Bomb\u201d Van Soest (17-2-1), the game plan is the same. And that is to defend her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,38,45],"tags":[141,1272,1273,1274],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}