Phetjeeja Challenges Rodrigues And Agdeve Defends Against Roman At The Inner Circle 19 This Friday
Two world title fights. Two of the most compelling backstories in ONE Championship. One night at Lumpinee Stadium.
The Inner Circle 19 takes place on Friday, June 19, live in Asia primetime from Bangkok, Thailand, headlined by a women’s atomweight Muay Thai world title clash and a heavyweight kickboxing rematch with the biggest belt in the division on the line.
ONE Women’s Atomweight Muay Thai World Champion Allycia Hellen Rodrigues makes her first title defence against “The Queen” Phetjeeja Lukjaoporongtom in a main event that brings together two of the most decorated women in the sport’s history.
Rodrigues grew up in Fortaleza, Brazil, the daughter of a professional footballer, started capoeira at seven and found Muay Thai at 13 before relocating to Thailand in 2018. She won the ONE World Title on her promotional debut, stepped away for two and a half years to have a son, fought through postpartum struggles and a complete physical rebuild to return, and has since reclaimed the belt she never truly surrendered. Five title reigns, three wins since her comeback, two of those by stoppage. Her story is one of the most remarkable in combat sports.
Phetjeeja was fighting boys by the age of eight and beating them. She was banned from fighting boys at 13, became WMC Muay Thai World Champion at 14, accumulated over 100 fights before most fighters have their first, and became the second fighter and first woman to earn a ONE Championship contract through ONE Friday Fights. She is now a three-time ONE Atomweight Kickboxing World Champion stepping into Muay Thai world title territory on a 16-fight winning streak, 11 of those wins by stoppage, five in the first round. Whoever wins on June 19 will have beaten the very best version of the other.
In the co-main event, ONE Heavyweight Kickboxing World Champion Samet Agdeve makes his first title defence against the man he dethroned, Roman Kryklia. Their first meeting at ONE Fight Night 37 last November was a statement performance from the 22-year-old Turk, a fighter who arrived in Stuttgart at 18 with no contacts, no language, and nowhere to stay before sleeping rough, working night security shifts, and training through every one of them until he had built a game capable of dismantling a three-time world champion. He did exactly that in November, swarming Kryklia from the opening bell with relentless low kicks and straight boxing that removed the Ukrainian’s mobility and accuracy by the third round.
Kryklia has held titles at two weight classes and won the ONE Heavyweight Kickboxing World Grand Prix. He knows what a rematch demands and arrives at June 19 with the full weight of that experience pointed at a 22-year-old champion who has never seen a second fight against the same opponent at this level.
Two debutants round out the card. Malaysia’s Rifdean Masdor, a three-time IFMA World Champion and SEA Games gold medalist who has been fighting professionally since the age of 12, meets Iran’s Javad Mozafari in atomweight Muay Thai. Canada’s Olivia Bahsous faces Thailand’s Phontip Khlongtoeiyouthcenter in a catchweight Muay Thai opener, the card’s fourth debut in four bouts.
The Inner Circle 19 Full Card
- Allycia Hellen Rodrigues vs. Phetjeeja Lukjaoporongtom (ONE Women’s Atomweight Muay Thai World Championship)
- Samet Agdeve vs. Roman Kryklia (ONE Heavyweight Kickboxing World Championship)
- Rifdean Masdor vs. Javad Mozafari (Muay Thai – atomweight)
- Olivia Bahsous vs. Phontip Khlongtoeiyouthcenter (Muay Thai – catchweight)
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