Danial Williams says it'll be foolish to underestimate Thongpoon's KO power: "It'll be unwise of me to do so"

Danial Williams knows what he has signed himself up for at ONE Fight Night 26, and that is an all-out war against fellow brawler Thongpoon PK Saenchai.

The Perth native and the Thai upstart trade leather in a strawweight Muay Thai joust inside Bangkok's iconic Lumpinee Stadium on Friday, Dec. 6.

Confident as he may be in getting his hand raised, the Kao Sok Muay Thai and Scrappy MMA fighter refuses to look past his opposite number's crunching power in four-ounce gloves.

Per Danial Williams, that's the one thing that he has to pay utmost attention to. The 31-year-old told Sportskeeda MMA:

"Really, that's the main thing I have to worry about, hey, his knockout power. I know I cannot sleep on it. More like, it will be unwise of me to do so. I don't want to just go in there without giving much attention to that."

Williams' assessment couldn't have been more spot on.

The PK Saenchai martial artist has achieved three of his four victories inside the ONE circle by KO/TKO against Timur Chuikov, Petmongkol Soonkelahuaitom, and Tomorrow Kiatsongrit.

Though it hasn't helped him reap similar results over the past two matches, the three-sport superstar isn't going to sleep on Thongpoon's money-making weapons when they cross paths at ONE Fight Night 26.

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Danial Williams believes he'd need to mix things up against heavy-hitter Thongpoon

Aware of Thongpoon's match-ending power, Danial Williams does not want to be drawn into a dogfight and be the latest victim on the Thai's highlight-reel gallery.

Although he loves taking risks every now and then, the Perth resident is going to put that on the back burner to focus on getting his hand raised inside the Mecca of Muay Thai.

In the same interview, he elaborated:

"For this fight, I gotta bring that same level of intelligence. I just can't go out for it [a win], I need to be a bit smarter."

ONE Fight Night 26 will be available live in U.S. primetime for free to all active Amazon Prime Video subscribers in the United States and Canada on Friday, Dec. 6.