Northernmost
12-01-2012, 15:23
Finland’s top featherweight star Tom Niinimäki is not facing great expectations for the first time. After getting a promising start to his international career he headed abroad with high hopes roughly five years ago. But devastating submission defeats to Hatsu Hioki and Tristan Yunker destroyed those hopes – most of all, the ones that the fighter himself had held.
He withdrew from fighting and stayed away for more than two years. In the end, long months doing soul searching and hard training paid off. After Niinimäki returned as a featherweight, he has gone 6-0-0 in the past two years.
Please read of this exclusive interview at MMAViking.com (http://sherdognet.craveonline.com/index.php#http://www.mmaviking.com/finlands-tom-niinimaki-waits-patiently-for-his-chance/#more-6267)
He withdrew from fighting and stayed away for more than two years. In the end, long months doing soul searching and hard training paid off. After Niinimäki returned as a featherweight, he has gone 6-0-0 in the past two years.
Please read of this exclusive interview at MMAViking.com (http://sherdognet.craveonline.com/index.php#http://www.mmaviking.com/finlands-tom-niinimaki-waits-patiently-for-his-chance/#more-6267)