ONE Friday Fights 152 lands at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand this Friday, May 1, live in Asia primetime — just two days after ONE SAMURAI 1 in Tokyo. Nine bouts are on the card, with all but one athlete chasing a US$100,000 contract and a permanent spot on ONE’s global roster. Headlining the action
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This fight has been building for over a year, and it has not been quiet. When Marat Grigorian missed the featherweight limit by 0.75 pounds at ONE 172 last March, Kaito Ono refused a catchweight bout and walked away. What followed was a prolonged war of words between two fighters who had genuinely gotten under
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Yuya “Little Piranha” Wakamatsu has defended the ONE Flyweight MMA World Title before. He has never done it like this at home, in front of his family, at an event whose name encapsulates the philosophy he has built his entire career around. The 31-year-old Tokyo resident puts his title on the line against Avazbek “Ninzya”
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Two unbeaten fighters, five wins each in ONE Championship, and one contract at stake. The main event of ONE Friday Fights 151 this Friday, April 24, is straightforward in its stakes and compelling in its matchup. Ubaid “Bad” Hussain meets Panpadej NF Looksuan in flyweight Muay Thai at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, live in
While their older brothers were supposed to settle a score at ONE 173 last November, a shoulder injury forced Jonathan Haggerty to withdraw from his title defence against Nabil Anane before a single punch was thrown. The siblings never got their fight. The younger brothers will get theirs first. Yonis Anane, 18, faces Freddie Haggerty,
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Most fighters arrive at a major bout with months of camp behind them. Kaito Ono arrives at ONE SAMURAI 1 on April 29 with closer to a year of preparation, because the fight with Marat Grigorian was first announced in 2024 before falling apart over a weight dispute. The father-son coaching team never stopped working.
Jonathan Haggerty was supposed to defend his ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Title in Tokyo last November. A torn rotator cuff, confirmed by the doctor just weeks before ONE 173, ended that camp the worst way a camp can end — with nothing to show for the work and months of recovery ahead. Five months later,
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Yuki Yoza told Jonathan Haggerty he was coming for him before he had even signed with ONE Championship. He was a cornerman at a ONE event, spotted Haggerty ringside, walked over, and made his intentions plain. Haggerty said yes. The conversation was brief. The preparation that followed was not. The 28-year-old Japanese kickboxer challenges ONE
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There is a version of Rodtang Jitmuangnon that the public rarely sees. Not the relentless forward-marcher who absorbs punishment and keeps coming, but the fighter who carries the weight of national expectation into every bout and understands exactly what it means when things go wrong in front of the world. That version has been thinking
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Ayaka “Zombie” Miura started martial arts late, has never been naturally athletic by her own admission, and has never finished first at anything. She is now one submission away from a shot at the ONE Atomweight MMA World Title. The 35-year-old faces fellow Japanese fighter Chihiro Sawada in an all-Japan atomweight MMA showdown at ONE
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