Contract Dreams On The Line As ONE Friday Fights 148 Heads To Lumpinee
The weekly hunt for a six-figure ONE Championship contract resumes at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok on March 27 when ONE Friday Fights 148 brings nine bouts across Muay Thai, kickboxing, and MMA to a live Asia primetime audience.
Headlining proceedings is a strawweight Muay Thai clash between two fighters with a point to prove. Former Rajadamnern Stadium Muay Thai World Champion Kongchai Chanaidonmueang — the most experienced name in the weekly series by appearances — returns determined to recapture the winning form that made him a standout in his early ONE tenure after a run of mixed results.
Waiting for him is Mehrdad “Black Wolf” Khanzadeh, a hard-pressing Iranian knockout artist who trains out of Sor Dechapan in Bangkok and is chasing back-to-back ONE victories for the first time. Khanzadeh showed genuine heart at ONE Friday Fights 125, rallying from a knockdown to claim a split-decision win, and he arrives on Friday ready to make the biggest statement of his career.
The co-main event pits two contrasting flyweight Muay Thai stories against each other. Denkriangkrai Mavinn Muaythai has constructed one of the strongest recent records in the series. He has scored four consecutive victories with his technically sound southpaw game. Now he is closing in on the contract his teammate Shadow Mavinn secured before him.
Opposite him stands Valerii Strungari, a Moldovan finisher who trains out of Team Mehdi Zatout in Pattaya and arrived on the ONE scene last November with a third-round comeback knockout that had no right to land the way it did. Both men are fighting for their futures.
Elsewhere on the card, French bantamweight kickboxer Velihan Palit makes his ONE debut carrying a seven-fight winning streak and five stoppages into the biggest night of his career against Japanese southpaw Ranma.
Chinese strawweight kickboxer Sheng Yi Yang faces Japan’s Shota Takezoe, and Hong Kong’s Wang Tsz Ching, who’s riding an impressive six-fight winning streak, takes on Thailand’s Nongfahsai TOP PK Saenchai in atomweight Muay Thai.
The full card is below.
ONE Friday Fights 148 Full Card
- Kongchai Chanaidonmueang vs. Mehrdad Khanzadeh (Muay Thai – strawweight)
- Denkriangkrai Mavinn Muaythai vs. Valerii Strungari (Muay Thai – flyweight)
- Superjeng Torfunfarm vs. Prompadej NF Looksuan (Muay Thai – bantamweight)
- Jorge Pastor vs. Ahad Varghaeian (Muay Thai – featherweight)
- Krungthai Torfunfarm vs. Binladin Sor Poonsawat (Muay Thai – strawweight)
- Sattor Rizoev vs. Felipe Silva (MMA – flyweight)
- Nongfahsai TOP PK Saenchai vs. Wang Tsz Ching (Muay Thai – atomweight)
- Sheng Yi Yang vs. Shota Takezoe (kickboxing – strawweight)
- Velihan Palit vs. Ranma (kickboxing – bantamweight)
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