ONE Championship 161 weigh-in results: ‘Reug Reug’ dwarfs opponent, three Chinese fighters miss marks
- ONE 161 goes down on Thursday night in Singapore, and is topped by a featherweight Muay Thai title fight
- Headliners hit marks at Wednesday weigh-ins, but three Chinese fighters came in heavy, and Oumar Kane added drama to the proceedings
Wednesday’s ONE Championship 161 weigh-ins were a tense and dramatic affair – thanks in part to heavyweight prospect “Reug Reug” Oumar Kane and a trio of Chinese fighters.
Senegal’s Kane did not miss weight for his undercard MMA contest with debuting Russian Batradz Gazzaev, but stepped onto the scale a whopping 35 pounds heavier than his foe, and towered over him when they came face-to-face moments later.
The pair then had to be separated after exchanging shoves.
Three fighters did miss weight, however, and all three happened to hail from China. First, ONE veteran Han Zihao missed weight for his bantamweight Muay Thai fight with Thailand’s Ferrari Fairtex by a significant margin, coming in 7.5 pounds over the division’s 146-pound limit.
Debuting flyweight Wang Shuo then missed weight for his main card MMA clash with former title challenger Yuya Wakamatsu, coming in 1.5 pounds over the division’s 136-pound limit.
He was followed by Chinese MMA veteran Zhang Lipeng, who was a quarter of a pound heavy for his 156-pound lightweight bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov protégé Zhang Lipeng.