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Cambodian martial art kun Khmer has been confirmed as one of the kickboxing combat sports included in ONE Championship’s upcoming professional kickboxing league that aims to showcase the best in local and international striking talent.

KUALA LUMPUR: Started off with mixed martial arts (MMA), ONE Championship has now established another world class event — the ONE Championship Kickboxing league, featuring local and international talents from around the world.

ONE Championship comes to Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar for the first time in 2018 for ONE: Quest for Gold. The main event will see local hero and ONE World Middleweight Champion “The Burmese Python” Aung La N Sang takes on Alexandre “Bebezao” Machado for the vacated ONE World Light Heavyweight Championship following the retirement of the current champion, Roger Gracie.

ONE Championship has announced its return to Kuala Lumpur with One: Visions of Victory, which is set to ignite Axiata Stadium on March 9 with an evening of martial arts action. While a main event is yet to be announced, One Championship has revealed a handful of compelling bouts featuring the best local and international martial arts talent.

Amir Khan does not just want to beat Russian Timofey Nastyukhin on Friday, he knows he needs to do it in style. The 23-year-old mixed martial arts fighter faces Nastyukhin in One Championship’s Quest For Gold event at the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon.

ONE Championship has established a professional kickboxing league. ONE Championship Kickboxing aims to provide the world’s best martial artists a global platform to showcase the beauty of Asia’s striking arts such as Muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, taekwondo, kungfu, wushu, sanda, silat, and lethwei.

KUALA LUMPUR: Agilan ‘The Alligator’ Thani is eager to earn another crack at the world title when he takes to the cage at ONE Championships’ Visions of Victory at the Axiata Arena on March 9. Agilan, who is one of five Malaysians that have so far been confirmed on the fightcard, will go against former SFL welterweight champion Amitesh Chaubey.

In the co-main event of Friday’s ONE Championship: Global Superheroes card at the Mall of Asia Arena, Team Lakay strawweight star Joshua ‘The Passion’ Pacio showed once again why he’s considered as one of the best young stars in the game after thoroughly dominating Chinese newcomer Lan Ming Qiang en route to a first-round submission win.

Friday night at the Mall of Asia Arena, Team Lakay flyweight Geje ‘Gravity’ Eustaquio brought another championship back to the Philippines, as he bested former ONE flyweight world champion Kairat ‘The Kazakh’ Akhmetov by Unanimous Decision to become the new ONE interim flyweight champion.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s first One Championship title contender, Ev Ting is set take the cage on Feb 23 at One: Quest for Gold at the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon. Nicknamed E.T, Ev was last seen fighting at home in Kuala Lumpur against Japan’s Nobutatsu Suzuki where he recorded a win by way of technical knockout (TKO) in the first-round. And after five months, he is on the MMA fight card again and this time around, he will face Ariel Sexton of Canada.

Today, seated opposite me and looking every inch a man on top of the world, Chatri, 46, has much to celebrate. His ONE Championship, founded in 2011, is fast becoming Asia’s biggest competitor to the US-based Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), currently the largest MMA promotion in the world. Meanwhile, ONE Championship’s events are now televised in 128 countries, up from 60 in 2014. Social media views have soared to 600 million, from 312,000 in 2014.

FILIPINO MMA star Geje Eustaquio clinched the ONE Interim Flyweight World Championship, edging Kairat “The Kazakh” Akhmetov by unanimous decision in an exhilarating five-round title tilt at ONE Championship’s ‘Global Superheroes’ in Manila, Friday night.