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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

The right hand that wobbled Adrian Lee mere seconds into his ONE Fight Night 40 comeback could have written a different story. Instead, the 19-year-old phenom used that early crisis to prove the most important lesson from his first career loss: composure beats panic every single time. “I did get caught with that [punch], unfortunately.

Jihin Radzuan carries the weight of consecutive losses into Friday night, the kind of setbacks that force fighters to confront uncomfortable truths about where their skills truly stand. The 27-year-old Malaysian has hit a rough patch since submitting Jenelyn Olsim at ONE Friday Fights 35, falling to Chihiro Sawada and Macarena Aragon in succession. Those

Shozo Isojima sees what everyone else watching Adrian Lee misses — a 19-year-old phenom whose explosive finishing ability masks critical weaknesses in technical development. The rest of the MMA world marvels at three consecutive submission victories in increasingly faster times, culminating in a 63-second demolition of Takeharu Ogawa. The 28-year-old Japanese judoka studies those same

Danny Kingad was once on the cusp of flyweight gold. A decade of elite competition earned him victories over division kingpins, positioned him for championship opportunities, and established him among the promotion’s most durable warriors. Then back-to-back defeats arrived for the first time in his career — losses to Yuya Wakamatsu and Adriano Moraes that

Joao Pedro Bueno Mendes spent 16 years dreaming about becoming an IBJJF World Champion, visualizing that moment since he first stepped onto the mats at 11 years old. When he finally achieved it in 2025, the emotional significance required two weeks to fully process — the realization that his childhood obsession had materialized into black

Magomed Akaev has waited long enough. Two postponements. Months of unfinished business. The 29-year-old Dagestani standout finally gets his chance to prove he belongs among ONE Championship’s lightweight elite when he faces Brazilian grappling specialist Lucas Gabriel at ONE Fight Night 40: Buntan vs. Hemetsberger II on Prime Video on Friday, February 13, live from