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Chihiro Sawada enters Friday’s clash with undefeated American Natalie Salcedo carrying a simple assessment — the perfect record means nothing when skills don’t match experience. The 28-year-old Japanese grappler believes her time inside ONE Championship’s elite atomweight division has prepared her for this moment and everything that comes after. Victory at ONE Fight Night 39 […]

Chihiro Sawada was 10 years old when she first stepped onto the mats under Megumi Fujii’s instruction, learning Brazilian jiu-jitsu and wrestling from a woman who had already become a legend in Japanese MMA. The encounters shaped everything that followed — a professional career built on suffocating grappling, a path toward ONE Championship gold, and

ONE Championship has released five athletes from its roster, cutting ties with veterans Denis Puric and Anissa Meksen alongside three others whose recent performances failed to meet organizational standards. The departures reflect the promotion’s increasingly competitive landscape, where limited roster spots and an expanding talent pipeline from ONE Friday Fights have created heightened performance expectations.

Ryohei Kurosawa has already visualized the ending — round three, Bokang Masunyane crumbling to the canvas, validation of six months spent dissecting every frame of fight film in preparation for the biggest test of his career. The 32-year-old Japanese striker carries a six-fight winning streak into ONE Fight Night 39 on Friday, January 23, facing

Carlo Bumina-ang’s momentum disappeared when his last fight hit the canvas. He had found success with dirty boxing in the opening round against undefeated Elbek Alyshov at ONE Fight Night 37 in November, but he had zero answers once the grappling started, ultimately tapping to a guillotine choke in the second frame after body shots

Ben “Vanilla Thunder” Tynan had entered his ONE Championship debut at ONE Fight Night 16 in November 2023 with an undefeated amateur run that included a Canadian Junior National Title and NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships experience, immediately capturing attention by submitting South Korea’s Kang Ji Won via arm-triangle choke in the third round while

The transition to mixed martial arts couldn’t have gone smoother for Tye Ruotolo. Two fights, two first-round rear-naked chokes, two previously undefeated opponents now carrying losses on their records. Adrian Lee fell at ONE Fight Night 35 in September. Shozo Isojima followed at ONE 173 in November. The 22-year-old American had conquered a new discipline

Stamp Fairtex was scheduled to defend her ONE Women’s Atomweight MMA World Title against Denice Zamboanga at ONE 167 in June 2024, a defense against her friend and former training partner that carried emotional weight beyond the championship itself. Instead, a torn meniscus forced her to the sidelines for what anyone expected would be a

Patience defined Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu’s rise for years. The Mongolian striker accumulated victories through repetition and hard work, moving forward without fanfare or shortcuts. Then 2025 arrived and everything crystallized at once. The 36-year-old who’d spent his career building momentum without much noise suddenly stood as ONE Bantamweight MMA World Champion, following in the footsteps of

The devastating knockout power that flattened John Lineker and demolished Kwon Won Il in 42 seconds created a dangerous expectation for Fabricio Andrade at ONE Fight Night 38 on Prime Video on December 5. He believed that another highlight-reel finish was just moments away after dropping Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu early in the opening frame. That belief,