ONE In The Media

Nico Carrillo and Jacob Smith, two of the best strikers on the UK fight scene, return to ONE Championship action on November 8, live on Sky Sports.

Former title challengers Carrillo and Smith will take part in separate Muay Thai contests at Bangkok’s famous Lumpinee stadium, live on Sky Sports in the early hours of the morning on Saturday November 8.

ONE Championship’s heaviest striking champion, Roman Kryklia, is keeping busy in 2025.

After a speedy, business-like dispatching of Lyndon Knowles in April, the Ukranian star will be back to compete in his seventh title fight since 2019 with ONE Championship when the main event of ONE Fight Night 37 comes around on November 7th.

Fabricio Andrey faces Eduardo Granzotto in a bantamweight submission grappling clash at ONE Fight Night 36 on Friday, October 3, live from Bangkok, Thailand. The 25-year-old Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion carries personal motivation into this rematch after losing to Granzotto at the IBJJF World Championships earlier this year.

Andrey dominated Ashley Williams in his promotional debut at ONE Fight Night 30, securing a unanimous decision victory. But the spectacle surrounding his first appearance left him mesmerized by the organization’s production value and global reach.

Count former ONE Strawweight World Champion Jarred Brooks among those supporting Filipino MMA star Joshua Pacio in his bid to become a two-division world title-holder.

Brooks and Pacio are bitter rivals but the American believes his Filipino nemesis can make history when he challenges Japan’s Yuya Wakamatsu for the ONE Flyweight MMA World Title on November 16.

Logan Chan is set to return to the global stage after a stunning debut, taking on Saksri in a 138-pound Muay Thai bout in the co-main event of ONE Friday Fights 125, live on September 19 on Sky Sports YouTube.

Rukiya Anpo has made his intentions crystal clear ahead of his ONE Championship debut: the Japanese kickboxing ace said Marat Grigorian was only the first obstacle in his path to compatriot Masaaki Noiri.

“Marat is my stepping stone to the belt,” Anpo told the Post after the ONE 173 press conference in Tokyo. “When I met him backstage, I told him exactly why I came to ONE: to get revenge against Noiri. That’s my mission here.”

Former two-division ONE World Champion Aung La N Sang will conclude his professional mixed martial arts career against Zebaztian Kadestam in a middleweight bout at ONE Fight Night 36 on Friday, October 3, at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.

Johan “Jojo” Ghazali blasted his way back into the ONE Championship win column at the weekend – and wasted no time aiming verbal shots at Denis Puric.

The 18-year-old Malaysian prospect stopped Morocco’s Zakaria El Jamari in the first round on Saturday morning at ONE Fight Night 35, snapping a two-fight skid after defeats to Diego Paez and Johan Estupinan.

Jackie Buntan will step into the ring for the first time since the death of her father when she challenges Austria’s Stella Hemetsberger for the vacant ONE Strawweight Muay Thai World Title.

The Filipino-American, who already holds the organisation’s strawweight kickboxing world championship, has acknowledged that the untimely passing of her dad, Jessie, in December has changed her outlook on life and competition.

The most talented pair of brothers in jiu-jitsu today are each no longer just one sport athletes.

Tye Ruotolo’s twin brother Kade already got off to a hot start with a 3-0 pro MMA record, and now it is Tye’s turn, as the youngest-ever IBJJF world champion at black belt looks to start strong in a sport with strikes. However Adrian Lee, his opponent on Friday at ONE Fight Night 35, may be the best fighter either brother will have faced.

Johan “Jojo” Ghazali insists he will prove his critics wrong when he returns to ONE Championship action this weekend – and the Malaysian teenager is not shy about firing back at his rivals.

Some dreams find you when you’re not looking. For Bampara Kouyate, one Instagram message transformed his entire world, launching the #2-ranked featherweight Muay Thai contender from the familiar confines of training camps into the glamorous chaos of Milan Fashion Week.

Now, he’s splitting time between throwing piercing kicks and striking poses, between “the art of eight limbs” and “the art of high fashion.”