Suablack Faces Stephen Irvine As Six Muay Thai Names Join ONE Fight Night 45 On July 17
Three Muay Thai bouts featuring six fighters with compelling stories and clear divisional stakes have been added to ONE Fight Night 45: Lessei vs. Rabah on Prime Video on Friday, July 17, live in U.S. primetime from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
Suablack Tor Pran49 makes his flyweight Muay Thai debut against Scottish contracted athlete Stephen “El Matador” Irvine, Suakim PongSuphan PK faces Dmitrii “The Silent Assassin” Kovtun at bantamweight, and Black Panther meets Sean Climaco at flyweight.
Suablack’s promotional career has had two distinct chapters. The first was explosive and unbeaten, a six-fight winning streak built on raw knockout power that earned him a six-figure contract and a reputation as one of the most dangerous strikers at his weight. The second involved a brief, difficult pivot into kickboxing, culminating in a first-round knockout loss to Hyu at ONE Fight Night 41 that stalled his momentum.
The weight move to flyweight resets his trajectory and returns him to the Muay Thai rule set where his best work lives. Irvine makes his main roster debut after a 7-1 promotional record in the weekly series, his final performance a spectacular first-round stoppage of Rambong Sor Therapat at ONE Friday Fights 128.
He trains alongside ONE Interim Featherweight Muay Thai World Champion Nico “King of the North” Carrillo, which gives the fight its own sub-story: a graduate of ONE’s developmental circuit, sharpened by world championship training partners, testing that development against a contracted main roster striker in his very first main roster bout.
The bantamweight main event carries its own weight. Suakim PongSuphan PK is a three-time Lumpinee Stadium Muay Thai World Champion who came close to retiring during the global pandemic before rediscovering his purpose under the ONE banner. A seven-fight winning streak, a contract, and a first-round dismantling of Vladimir Kuzmin at ONE Fight Night 42 have made him one of the promotion’s more heartening stories.
Kovtun arrives in the best form of his career, back-to-back wins over Shinji Suzuki and Mohanad Battbootti positioning him as a credible threat to anyone at 145 pounds and a future rematch with ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai World Champion Rambolek Chor Ajalaboon as his stated target. A win here over a veteran champion accelerates that case.
Black Panther and Climaco round out the Muay Thai additions with a flyweight matchup between a five-fight winning streak and a man who needs a bounce-back result. Black Panther’s split-decision war with Diego Paez at ONE Fight Night 42 extended a run that has made him one of the more reliable performers in the division. Climaco fell to a unanimous decision against Akif Guluzada in his most recent appearance and arrives at July 17 needing to stop the slide against a fighter who has shown no inclination to make things easy for anyone.
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