One Championship is Asia’s first and largest global sports media property, backed by venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Broadcast in 150 countries, according to Nielsen, the promotion is among the world’s top ten sports media properties based on views and engagement.
Team Lakay fighters have delivered the goods every time they have competed in the ONE Championship circle. Asia’s premier MMA promotion will be putting four of them in ONE: Winter Warriors II happening on December 17th at the Singapore Indoor Stadium to end the year with a bang. Coach Mark Sangiao will have his hands full as he prepares all four of his fighters for their respective bouts. This is the biggest delegation that Team Lakay will be bringing to foreign soil for a ONE Championship event.
Ritu Phogat will face Stamp Fairtex in the ONE Women’s Atomweight Grand Prix final. Their bout will take place on December 3, 2021, at ONE Winter Warriors. Prior to their thrilling fight, the Indian fighter took a dig at Stamp’s preparation. Phogat is undoubtedly one of the best wrestlers on the ONE Championship roster. Even her opponent, Stamp, is aware of her elite wrestling skills.
Jared Brooks made a statement on his ONE Championship debut, defeating highly-regarded Filipino talent Lito Adiwang via second-round submission. Brooks’ fight with Adiwang, a strawweight contest, topped Friday’s ONE: NextGen III card, which was pre-recorded in Singapore late last month.
Marcus Almeida has a new mountain to conquer. “Buchecha,” one of the greatest and most accomplished grapplers in the history of sport jiu-jitsu, said goodbye to the mat as he now finds himself competing in the cage. Almeida (1-0) successfully transitioned to MMA in September, winning his professional debut by first-round submission under the ONE Championship banner.
For more than a decade now, ONE Championship has cemented itself as a force in the world of martial arts. Featuring fights across Muay Thai, kickboxing, and MMA, the Asian organization never runs out of jaw-dropping moments.
“Sladkiy” Malykhin took a dig at India’s first Mixed Martial Arts World Champion in his latest Instagram post, calling out Bhullar for supposedly ducking him.
Jarred “The Monkey God” Brooks wants to prove that he is not scared to take risks, as he battles the always-dangerous Lito Adiwang in his maiden ONE Championship bout.
Ritu Phogat still has to go through Stamp Fairtex in December 3’s atomweight grand prix final. But she’s already got one eye on the queen of ONE Championship. The winner of next month’s showdown will go on the face divisional champion “Unstoppable” Angela Lee (10-2), who has been waiting patiently to make her return to the ONE Circle since giving birth in April.
So it looks like ONE Championship gets to celebrate its 10th anniversary after all, in a way. The Singapore-based promotion has announced that it will be holding a December 3 card entitled “ONE: Winter Warriors” which features some of the best fighters in the promotion.
ONE Championship continues to sign top-caliber talent in the industry. Khabib Nurmagomedov announced via Twitter that his “brother” Sagyid Izagakhmaev is the latest to sign with the Asia-based MMA organization.
Christian Lee has made it crystal clear: when he returns to the ONE Championship, he will not be fighting anyone other than Ok Rae Yoon, in a rematch for the lightweight title. The unheralded South Korean Ok (16-3) shocked the world of MMA by taking an upset unanimous decision – and the Hawaii-based fighter’s belt – in last month’s ONE: Revolution main event at Singapore Indoor Stadium.