One Championship rolls out big guns as it battles with UFC for dominance in MMA-mad Asian market
UFC rival announces stellar card for upcoming Singapore date as UFC embarks on highly-anticipated excursion into Asia
One Championship is bringing the heat with its Dynasty of Heroes card in Singapore in two weeks’ time, with world champions Angela Lee and Ben Askren headlining a card brimming with talent from the roster of Asia’s leading mixed martial arts crew.
And even bigger things are on the horizon, said One Championship’s chairman and founder Chatri Sityodtong this week.
Sityodtong was talking at the end of a week that has seen the Las Vegas-based UFC unveil two Chinese fighters in Li Jingliang and Wang Guan before the organisation’s own return to Singapore, scheduled for June 17. It was a canny move both in terms of the publicity for that event and in terms of UFC’s future moves out this way.
Sityodtong readily welcomes the noise being generated in terms of the greater good for the sport in general, and then marks the Singapore-based organisation’s territory.