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ONE Championship puts on first all-kickboxing main card with First Strike, featuring featherweight grand prix

  • October 15 event will be headlined by Giorgio Petrosyan and Superbon in battle to determine inaugural ONE featherweight kickboxing champ
  • Eight-man tournament will determine the No 1 contender for the new champion

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Giorgio Petrosyan with his ONE featherweight grand prix title in Tokyo in October 2019. Photo: ONE Championship
Nicolas Atkin
ONE Championship will stage its first all-kickboxing main card on October 15 with First Strike, featuring the quarter-finals of a featherweight grand prix.

Giorgio Petrosyan – who won the Asian martial arts promotion’s US$1 million grand prix in 2019 – will face Superbon to determine the inaugural ONE featherweight kickboxing champion in the main event.

ONE flyweight Muay Thai champ Rodtang Jitmuangnon will take on Daniel Puertas in a flyweight kickboxing co-main event.

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The eight-man featherweight tournament will determine the No 1 contender to the new champion.

Armenia’s Marat Grigorian faces Andy Souwer of the Netherlands, with Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong of Thailand taking on Tayfun Ozcan of Turkey.

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