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The welterweight MMA division is about to get a lot more interesting. Three new bouts have been added to ONE Fight Night 42 on Prime Video, airing live from Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium on Friday, April 10, headlined by a clash between two fighters who have never tasted defeat. American rising star Chase “Mannimal” Mann takes […]

The belt stayed where it belonged, but Tye Ruotolo left Bangkok with unfinished business on his mind. The 23-year-old American successfully made the third defense of his ONE Welterweight Submission Grappling World Title against Polish IBJJF No-Gi World Champion Pawel Jaworski at ONE Fight Night 41: Sinsamut vs. Jarvis on Prime Video on Friday, March

ONE Championship’s return to Japan is shaping up to be a historic one. Three all-Japan MMA matchups have been added to ONE Samurai 1, going down live on Wednesday, April 29, from Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Headline billing among the new additions belongs to submission specialist Ayaka “Zombie” Miura, who takes on Chihiro Sawada in

There are fighters who go the distance, and there are fighters who simply do not let it get that far. Jeremy “The Jaguar” Miado has always been the second kind, and he intends to prove it again on Friday night. The Filipino veteran opens ONE Fight Night 41: Sinsamut vs. Jarvis on Prime Video in

The most decorated featherweight MMA champion China has ever produced puts his belt on the line again next month. Tang Kai will make his second defense of the ONE Featherweight MMA World Title against Russian contender Shamil “The Cobra” Gasanov in the main event of ONE Fight Night 42 on Prime Video on April 10,

Yuya Wakamatsu has spent years fighting his way back from the brink. On April 29 in Tokyo, he defends the world title that made every setback worth it. ONE Championship has confirmed that “Little Piranha” will put his ONE Flyweight MMA World Championship on the line against Uzbek sensation Avazbek “Ninzya” Kholmirzaev at ONE Samurai

Before Ayaka Miura became one of MMA’s most feared submission hunters, she spent her days doing the opposite — putting people back together. The Japanese fighter known as “Zombie” worked as a clinical educator at an osteopathic center in Tokyo, studying joints, ligaments, and the precise mechanics of how the human body moves and fails.

Most fighters spend years climbing toward championship opportunities. Pawel Jaworski gets his at the beginning — no warm-up bout, no promotional debut against unranked opposition, just straight into the deep water against ONE Welterweight Submission Grappling World Champion Tye Ruotolo at ONE Fight Night 41 on March 13 inside Bangkok’s Lumpinee Stadium. “For sure, I

The ghosts of PRIDE and K-1’s peak years hung heavy over Wednesday’s press conference at Tokyo’s Kanda Myojin Hall, where ONE Championship Chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong stood before Japan’s martial arts elite and declared ONE Championship would resurrect what decline had stolen from the country that gave mixed martial arts its global stage. “In