Luke Lessei And Mohamed Younes Rabah Headline ONE Fight Night 45 In Featherweight Muay Thai On July 17
Two of the featherweight Muay Thai division’s most watchable strikers meet in a Prime Video main event on July 17, and neither is arriving without something to prove.
Luke “The Chef” Lessei and “The Eagle” Mohamed Younes Rabah headline ONE Fight Night 45 on Prime Video, live in U.S. primetime from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
Lessei has been one of the most entertaining fighters in the featherweight division since his arrival in ONE Championship, winning fans with a flashy, elusive style built on sharp inside work and the willingness to stand in front of elite opposition.
A first-round TKO of Cody Jerome in January 2025 announced him emphatically, but the fight that defined his promotional run came last November at ONE Fight Night 37. He suffered a second-round loss to ONE Interim Featherweight Muay Thai World Champion Nico “King of the North” Carrillo that showed both how far Lessei has come and how much distance still separates him from the division’s summit. The loss stings specifically because it was the kind of performance that could have gone either way before it didn’t. July 17 is his answer.
Rabah is 6-foot-2 and fighting at featherweight, a physical fact that has shaped every matchup he has taken in the division. The Algerian’s superior reach and devastating knee strikes from the clinch make him one of the most uncomfortable opponents at 155 pounds for fighters who prefer to engage at close range, which is precisely where Lessei does his best work.
The stylistic conflict is genuinely interesting. Lessei will need to get inside Rabah’s reach to operate, while Rabah will be looking to keep the distance and use his length to dictate the exchanges. After a unanimous decision over Eddie “Silky Smooth” Abasolo at ONE 169 last November, Rabah’s most recent outing against Shadow Mavinn ended in a frustrating no contest due to an inadvertent eye poke.
He arrives at July 17 carrying the unresolved energy of a fighter who has not had a definitive result since late 2024 and is long overdue one.
With Tawanchai PK Saenchai holding the ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Title and Carrillo sitting as interim champion, the division has never been more competitive. Both Lessei and Rabah are hunting the kind of statement result that forces their way into that conversation, and the featherweight Muay Thai landscape will look different on July 18 depending on who gets it.
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