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ONE Championship is a Singapore-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion which was launched on 14 July 2011 by multimillionaire entrepreneur Chatri Sityodtong and former ESPN Star Sports senior executive Victor Cui. According to CNBC, ONE Championship is Asia's largest sports media property with a global broadcasting reach of over one billion homes in 118 countries. It is widely recognised as the biggest MMA promotion in Asia.
- The 30-year-old is set to compete in the promotion’s stacked featherweight kickboxing division
- Noiri announced the news on social media with a statement that said he had ‘finally arrived’ for the ‘start of the final chapter’
Ben Tynan is two for two in ONE Championship after finishing Duke Didier inside a round, while Mauro Cerilli has had mixed results since signing in 2018.
Hu Yong hopes ‘heavy punches and great physical strength and fitness’ will see him past Australian opponent in fight at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok.
Christian Lee holds lightweight and welterweight titles, while Angela Lee was reigning atomweight champion but retired at 27.
Clash gives Bosnian Puric the fight he called for after beating Jacob Smith at ONE Fight Night 21.
Victory came off the back of successive defeats as the 37-year-old took the opportunity to hit back at critics and now seeks title shot.
The strawweight Muay Thai title-holder was to fight England’s Iman Barlow, but she retired instead, while a bout against Jackie Buntan also fell through.
After comfortably beating Kohei Shinjo, the Englishman is looking to build on his momentum and ready for bigger challenges in the bantamweight division.
Kickboxing legend one of three fighters from China on the night, with Hu Yong facing Reece McLaren in MMA bout and Zhang Lipeng facing Maurice Abevi.
This year will see more events away from Thailand’s Lumpinee Stadium, and numbered nights featuring combat sports other than Muay Thai.
Two-sport champion Regian Eersel loses lightweight kickboxing title to Alexis Nicolas at ONE Fight Night 21.
Italian-Canadian Jonathan Di Bella had been expected to defending hi strawweight crown against Prajanchai PKSanchaigym.
The Swedish teenager will face the 29-year-old Russian at ONE Fight Night 22 in Bangkok on May 4.
The Thai had expected to face Canada’s Jonathan Di Bella at ONE Friday Fights 58 for the strawweight kickboxing crown.
The American makes the first defence of his belt at ONE Fight Night 21 on Saturday, against an opponent who has won his past six matches.
The Canadian has won all his 18 fights, but says he will be the underdog against one of the best Muay Thai fighters in the world.
Stamp Fairtex will battle MMA strawweight champion Xiong Jing Nan, while Superlek Kiatmoo9 takes on Jonathan Haggerty for British fighter’s bantamweight Muay Thai crown.
The 33-year-old Thai is the headline act at ONE Friday Fights 58, where he faces the Armenian for the interim featherweight kickboxing world title.
Sinsamut Klinmee and Dmitry Menshikov are top two contenders in lightweight Muay Thai division, and have both previously lost title fights against champion Regian Eersel.
Thai legend faces compatriot Kulabdam Sor Jor Piek Uthai at ONE Friday Fights 58, and wants to clear out the bantamweight division one last time and recapture the title.
Featherweight champion had to wait almost two years to defend his title after a knee injury cost him all of 2023, and the 28-year-old now hopes to fight in his homeland.
The two champions headline the seven fights confirmed so far for the event at Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium on April 6, along with fighters from Japan, Brazil and others.
Yu Yau-pui’s stamina was the difference in battle decision win over Lara Fernandez, and performance showed she could compete in atomweight division.
Wei, 34, was the first Chinese fighter to win a title with the Japanese kickboxing promotion K-1 and, after 20 fights unbeaten in China, says he is now looking to compete with the best fighters.
Vandaryeva had not fought for a year while Kierczynska was tipped as a future title contender, but a second-round knockdown swayed the result in favour of the Belarusian.
The Thai will defend her belt against Denice Zamboanga but hopes to then have the chance to win the strawweight title and become the first to hold MMA titles in two weight divisions.
Thailand’s Phetjeeja Lukjaoporongtom wins atomweight kickboxing unification bout in Bangkok.
Yu Yau-pui completes one-sided decision victory over Lara Fernandez in ONE Fight Night 20 event shown on Amazon Prime.
The Filipina-American says she has put the defeat in a title decider two years against Smilla Sundell behind her, and now faces Italian Martine Michieletto at ONE Fight Night 20.
The 21-year-old Polish fighter stepped up at short notice to beat Nat “Wondergirl” Jaroonsak last month and will now face Ekaterina Vandaryeva on her quest for the divisional title.
