Freddie Haggerty And Yonis Anane Bring Family Rivalry To The Inner Circle On May 22
While their older brothers were supposed to settle a score at ONE 173 last November, a shoulder injury forced Jonathan Haggerty to withdraw from his title defence against Nabil Anane before a single punch was thrown. The siblings never got their fight. The younger brothers will get theirs first.
Yonis Anane, 18, faces Freddie Haggerty, 21, in a strawweight Muay Thai bout at The Inner Circle on Friday, May 22, live in Asia primetime from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. Both fighters represent the next generation of two of the most prominent combat sports families in ONE Championship.
Yonis carries the Anane name into this bout with genuine credentials of his own. The France-born Thai, Team Mehdi Zatout-trained teenager has gone 3-1 in ONE’s weekly series, accumulating three unanimous decision wins over Liu Junchao, Huynh Hoang Phi, and Riamu Matsumoto before suffering his first promotional loss to Zhao Zhengdong.
His style mirrors the discipline that defined his brother’s rise — technically sound, high-volume, and built around a relentless striking output that accumulates damage across all three rounds rather than hunting for a single finishing moment. At 18, he is already four bouts into his ONE career with the same gym infrastructure and fighting intelligence that produced a former ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai World Champion.
Freddie brings a fundamentally different approach. The Knowlesy Academy and Team Underground product has the most emphatic finishing record of any fighter at his stage in the weekly series. He owns three consecutive knockouts in his first three promotional outings, including a round one stoppage of Maisangngern Sor Yingcharoenkarnchang and a third-round TKO of Kaoklai Chor Hapayak.
His one promotional loss came against Jordan Estupinan at ONE 170 on a main card stage, a step up in competition that tested him over three rounds and exposed areas his team has been working on since. Like his brother Jonathan, he fights behind sharp boxing combinations and carries concussive punching power that has already announced him as a genuine finishing threat at 21.
The stylistic contrast is clean and compelling. Yonis’ technical accumulation against Freddie’s explosive finishing instinct will deliver. With their brothers’ rivalry still unresolved and both families watching closely, this is a fight with stakes that run well beyond the result on the night.
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