ONE Championship 162 results: Jon Di Bella beats Zhang Peimian to claim kickboxing title
- Di Bella knocks Zhang down in dramatic final round to win vacant strawweight kickboxing title in Kuala Lumpur.
- Reece McLaren gets second-round TKO in co-main event as martial arts promotion makes its return to Malaysia after nearly three years
ONE Championship returned to action on Friday night with its first card in Kuala Lumpur for nearly three years.
In a dramatic finale, Jonathan Di Bella beat Zhang Peimian in the ONE 162 main event to claim the vacant strawweight kickboxing title.
Saturday morning’s ONE on Prime Video 3 event at the Axiata Arena will cap a double header of events in Malaysia.
Here are all of the results from ONE 162.
Di Bella wins kickboxing title
Jonathan Di Bella swiped the vacant ONE strawweight kickboxing title with a unanimous decision victory over Zhang Peimian in the main event.
A close fight that could have gone either way suddenly swung in the fifth round in the Canadian-Italian’s direction, when he caught “The Fighting Rooster” with a head kick that knocked the Chinese fighter down.
An automatic 10-8 round, it was enough to convince all the judges.
“We’ve been through crazy things in this camp – a car accident, we got stuck in the airport ... but we’re here,” Di Bella said. “And new, baby. I knew it.”