Team Lakay Head Coach Mark Sangiao has a plan to restore the Baguio City premier gym to its former glory.

After it finished 2018 with four World Champions, the golden quartet all lost their belts in the first three months of last year to leave Filipino fans scratching their heads and wondering what had gone wrong, reports ONE Championship.

However, green shoots of progress began to emerge after that as Joshua “The Passion” Pacio reclaimed the ONE Strawweight World Title and defended it twice, Danny “The King” Kingad made it to the ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix final, and some of the team’s other stars have picked up highlight-reel wins.

Sangiao says as long as everyone pulls together, continues to stay dedicated to their training, and performs to their full potential, there is no reason why the Lakay collective cannot rediscover their golden touch.

“The plan moving forward is to keep on winning, work on their weaknesses, and become more rounded so there’s no weakness in them – whether it be on ground or wrestling,” he says.

“We want them to be complete because we want all the belts back that we lost.”

The focus is not only on the former World Champions in the group, however. There are plenty of rising stars in the team, as well as athletes who are already on the cusp of glory.

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