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The last time Jarred “The Monkey God” Brooks felt truly at home, he was ruling the strawweight MMA division. After three straight setbacks, the American is heading back there. Brooks faces Japanese veteran Tatsumitsu “The Sweeper” Wada at ONE SAMURAI 5 on Wednesday, November 18, at Tokyo’s EBARA WAVE Arena Ota. The card is headlined

Jihin “Shadow Cat” Radzuan arrived in Tokyo assuming nobody would recognize her. By the time she left, strangers had queued at her hotel for photographs, some clutching printed pictures of the Malaysian. That warmth came on a difficult night. The 28-year-old dropped a unanimous decision to Itsuki “Android 18” Hirata in their women’s atomweight MMA

No Japanese woman has ever claimed a ONE World Title. On Wednesday, December 2, Chihiro Sawada gets her chance to change that in front of a home crowd. The former Shooto Atomweight Champion faces undefeated Canadian Anastasia “Anniemale” Nikolakakos for the vacant ONE Women’s Atomweight MMA World Championship at ONE SAMURAI 6, inside Yokohama Buntai

Out of every setback Itsuki “Android 18” Hirata has absorbed, one has never really faded. More than four years after Jihin “Shadow Cat” Radzuan handed her the first loss of her career, the Japanese star finally gets her rematch in front of a home crowd. The pair meet in an atomweight MMA rematch at ONE

One of the year’s most anticipated cards just gained some serious local flavor. Three all-Japan matchups have been officially added to ONE SAMURAI 4 on Saturday, October 17, at Tokyo’s Ariake Arena. The new bouts join a lineup already headlined by a pair of World Title fights and the semifinals of the ONE SAMURAI Featherweight

Antonio “The Flash” Cesar had just handed an unbeaten fighter his first professional loss, yet he still saw plenty of room to grow. The 22-year-old Brazilian graded his own night at nine out of 10. Cesar stopped Joshua “Flyin Hawaiian” Perreira via first-round TKO in flyweight MMA at ONE Fight Night 48 on Friday, October

Once the adrenaline faded, Shamil Erdogan’s thoughts drifted away from belts and toward a birthday back home. The undefeated Turkish heavyweight had a US$50,000 bonus in hand and a very clear idea of how to spend part of his day. Erdogan choked out Paul “King of the North” Elliott at 2:28 of the second round

Alibeg Rasulov arrived in ONE Championship undefeated, but his last appearance ended with the first loss of his career. The Turkish lightweight now gets his chance to respond, and the man waiting for him has never lost under the ONE banner either. Rasulov faces Brazilian star Lucas Gabriel in the lightweight MMA main event of

Nobody needs to tell Paul “King of the North” Elliott that the odds are stacked against him. He already knows, and it has not changed a thing. The 34-year-old Englishman faces unbeaten Turkish powerhouse Shamil Erdogan in the heavyweight MMA main event of ONE Fight Night 48 on Prime Video on Friday, October 2. The