Regan Upshaw has always bet on himself. He attended a Clemson football camp without playing organised football. He walked away from a potential NFL career after winning two national championships. He relocated alone to Denver to chase a dream in a sport he had barely started. The pattern is consistent, and it has worked every […]
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
Masaaki Noiri has been thinking about alternating wins and losses since the moment he arrived in ONE Championship. Two steps forward, one step back, repeat. He has identified it, named it, and is done with it. The former ONE Interim Featherweight Kickboxing World Champion enters the ONE SAMURAI Featherweight Kickboxing Tournament at ONE SAMURAI 2
Owen Jones grew up wanting to be a professional rugby player. He dreamed of representing Wales at scrum-half, dedicating his childhood to the sport his father introduced him to and the national jersey he wanted to wear. Biology had other plans. At 5’8″, the professional path was never going to open, and at 17, with
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Ben Woolliss has been moving fast since the moment he arrived in ONE Championship. A first-round stoppage of a former world champion on debut, a competitive three-round battle against another former world champion in his second outing, and now a fight against a man who went the distance in a world title match just two
Three Muay Thai bouts featuring six fighters with compelling stories and clear divisional stakes have been added to ONE Fight Night 45: Lessei vs. Rabah on Prime Video on Friday, July 17, live in U.S. primetime from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. Suablack Tor Pran49 makes his flyweight Muay Thai debut against Scottish contracted athlete
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Two fighters chasing redemption and two fighters looking to announce themselves share the same card on July 17 at Lumpinee Stadium. Lito “Thunder Kid” Adiwang meets Joshua “Flyin Hawaiian” Perreira in flyweight MMA, and Jihin “Shadow Cat” Radzuan faces Anastasia “Anniemale” Nikolakakos in atomweight MMA at ONE Fight Night 45: Lessei vs. Rabah on Prime
Three losses in a row nearly broke Petnamkhong Sor Maneekhot. The Laotian fans who once cheered him turned critical. The support dried up. He kept going anyway, and now he is two wins into a run that has reignited everything. The 22-year-old faces Maisangkum Sor Yingcharoenkarnchang in the strawweight Muay Thai main event of ONE
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The knockout that stopped Maisangkum Sor Yingcharoenkarnchang’s six-fight winning streak taught him something he could not have learned any other way. A first-round loss to Watcharaphon Laochokcharoen at ONE Friday Fights 92 exposed a recklessness he had never been forced to confront before, and the version of himself returning to the main event of ONE
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Anar Mammadov does not remember the Yodlekpet fight as a defeat. He remembers it as a fight he was winning until a single knockdown changed the scorecards. That distinction has driven everything since. The Azerbaijani striker returns to flyweight Muay Thai action against Tomyamkoong Bhumjaithai in the main event of The Inner Circle 18 on
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