When Jonathan Haggerty retained the ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Title at ONE SAMURAI 1 in Tokyo last month, his younger brother Freddie was in the corner watching. When Nabil Anane rises through the ONE bantamweight ranks, his younger brother Yonis is somewhere in the gym, training harder to keep pace. On Friday, May 22, those […]
Five years ago, Mia Trevorrow walked into a kickboxing gym in St Ives, Cornwall, for the first time. On Friday night in Bangkok, she walked out of Lumpinee Stadium as a ONE Championship winner. The ISKA British Champion and WBC World number seven-ranked kickboxer made an immediate statement on her ONE Championship debut, defeating Japan’s
One of the most recognisable names on the ONE Championship roster has been cut, and the circumstances surrounding his departure are damaging to the legacy he built in the promotion. John “Hands of Stone” Lineker has been released after returning a failed drug test. The former ONE Bantamweight MMA World Champion tested positive for two
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Mia Trevorrow has spent five years moving through kickboxing at a pace she describes as incredibly fast. Today, it brings her to Lumpinee Stadium. The ISKA British Champion and WBC number seven-ranked kickboxer makes her ONE Championship debut against Japan’s Kokoz at The Inner Circle on Friday, May 15, live in Asia primetime from Bangkok,
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Kade Ruotolo was 3-0 in MMA and building momentum when a routine training session ended with a sound he instantly recognised as serious. A scramble, a weird twist, and then a pop that told him everything before the doctor confirmed it — a full ACL tear that put him on the sideline for over a
Ben Woolliss stopped a former world champion in under two minutes on nine days’ notice in his promotional debut. Some fighters would take the reputation that earns and protect it carefully. Woolliss has done the opposite. He has walked straight toward another former world champion with a full camp behind him and the same unshakeable
Tang Kai has always been composed. The stillness he carries into fights, the precision he applies under pressure, the refusal to be drawn into emotion when the stakes are highest. These qualities defined his rise and they define his championship reign. Since last September, they have a new source. The ONE Featherweight MMA World Champion
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Ben Woolliss did not arrive in ONE Championship to ease his way in. He took his debut on nine days’ notice, stopped a former world champion in the first round, and then told anyone within earshot that he was here to be the best striker in the world. That is not the language of a
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Anatoly Malykhin has had a long time to think about what went wrong at ONE 169. He has spent the months since going back to the system that made him unbeatable and stripping out everything that was not working. On Friday, he gets to test those adjustments against the only man who has ever beaten
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ONE Friday Fights 154 lands at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, this Friday, May 15, live in Asia primetime. Nine bouts across Muay Thai and kickboxing fill the card, with every fighter on it chasing a US$100,000 contract and a permanent place on ONE’s global roster. Headlining is a bantamweight Muay Thai main event between
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