Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson closed out the highly anticipated special rules super-fight at ONE X on Saturday, 26 March, by doing what many envisioned he would do – survive Rodtang “The Iron Man” Jitmuangnon’s striking in the opening Muay Thai frame and go on to submit the megastar in the second round.
ONE Championship™ (ONE) graced the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Saturday to celebrate its 10-year anniversary with ONE X, a massive three-part extravaganza featuring 20 bouts, including five World Title contests, two submission grappling matches, and a flyweight special rules super-fight.
Although Denice “Lycan Queen” Zamboanga will be busy rematching South Korea’s Ham Seo Hee at ONE X, she will keep a close eye on the evening’s main event. To cap off the festivities at ONE Championship’s tenth-anniversary show, “Unstoppable” Angela Lee will defend her ONE Women’s Atomweight World Championship against ONE Women’s Atomweight World Grand Prix Champion Stamp Fairtex.
For Shinya Aoki, his battle with Yoshihiro Akiyama at ONE X is about separating realism from grandeur. The former ONE Lightweight World Champion will face off against “Sexyama” in a battle of Japanese MMA legends this Saturday, 26 March, and he believes the two of them approach the sport very differently.
Jeremy “The Jaguar” Miado is on a roll as of late in ONE Championship. The 29-year-old strawweight won three of his last four fights, two of which were against Miao Li Tao.
Modern-day Dutch kickboxing icon Nieky Holzken and bantamweight MMA phenom Stephen Loman are gearing up for ONE Championship’s 10-year anniversary show, ONE X, this Saturday, 26 March.
John Lineker dethroned Bibiano Fernandes in emphatic fashion to win the ONE Bantamweight World Title at ONE: LIGHTS OUT on Friday, 11 March.
The global fan base knows that Adriano Moraes is a special mixed martial artist, but Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida says his fellow Brazilian is an equally impressive human being. Moraes – who will defend his ONE Flyweight World Title against Yuya Wakamatsu at ONE X on Saturday, 26 March – trains alongside “Buchecha” at American Top Team in Florida, USA, and the pair have struck up a strong bond.
Former two-division ONE World Champion Martin “The Situ-Asian” Nguyen snapped the first losing streak of his MMA career with an emphatic TKO victory over Kirill Gorobets at ONE: LIGHTS OUT on Friday, 11 March.
