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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 […]

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

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

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

Tang Kai does not need a complicated argument for why he wins on Friday. He has one answer, and he has been landing it on elite competition for nearly four years. The ONE Featherweight MMA World Champion defends his title against challenger Shamil “The Cobra” Gasanov in the main event of ONE Fight Night 43:

The world title fight Shamil Gasanov was supposed to have in April is finally happening in May, and the extra weeks made all the difference. The 30-year-old Russian challenger faces ONE Featherweight MMA World Champion Tang Kai in the main event of ONE Fight Night 43: Tang vs. Gasanov on Prime Video on Friday, May

Oumar “Reug Reug” Kane is the only man to have beaten Anatoly Malykhin. He knows what that means, and he has spent every session since making sure that knowledge translates into an even more complete fighter this time around. The ONE Heavyweight MMA World Champion makes his first title defence against Malykhin at The Inner

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”

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

There was a point where Itsuki Hirata stopped training altogether. The losses had piled up, the confidence had drained away, and the sport that had defined her life stopped feeling worth it. She walked away. Then she came back. The 26-year-old Japanese atomweight faces Ritu “The Indian Tigress” Phogat at ONE SAMURAI 1 on Wednesday,