ONE In The Media

5 July 2017 – Surabaya, Indonesia: The largest sports media property in Asian history, ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced additional bouts for ONE: CONQUEST OF KINGS. The inaugural event in Surabaya is set to take place on 29 July, at the GOR Kertajaya Arena.

SINGAPORE: Local mixed martial arts (MMA) prospect Niko Soe will make his second appearance for ONE Championship on Jul 29 in Surabaya, Indonesia, announced the Asian promotion on Wednesday (July 5). Soe, 24, pits his record of three wins and one loss in a flyweight (60kg) tilt against undefeated Indonesian Stefer Rahardian (six wins and no losses).

30 June 2017 – Yangon, Myanmar: The largest sports media property in Asian history, ONE Championship™ (ONE), electrified the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium with another blockbuster evening of authentic martial arts. The beautiful city of Yangon played host to ONE: LIGHT OF A NATION, which showcased the absolute best in local and international martial arts talent. In the main event, Aung La N Sang was crowned the new ONE Middleweight World Champion with a unanimous decision victory over Vitaly Bigdash.

Aung La Nsang was unknown in Myanmar five years ago. His name will now never be forgotten here after the 32-year-old claimed his nation’s first-ever world mixed martial arts title late on Friday night with a stunning upset of Russia’s Vitaly Bigdash. There was much debate around Yangon before the fight about whether or not Myanmar has had a world champion before in any sport, apart from the country’s traditional martial art of lethwei. The absence of records because of Myanmar’s troubled past means a definitive answer could not be found, but what’s certain is that Nsang is the country’s modern-day hero to this nation of 54 million.

Jakarta. ONE Championship, the mixed martial arts frontrunner in Asia, will pit two of the world’s foremost flyweight fighters against each other during an inaugural event in Surabaya, East Java, on July 29.
The flyweight division is considered one of the sport’s most-discussed and much-watched brackets on both pay-per-view and cable television. In view of this, the East Java capital will host ONE: Conquest of Kings, featuring the absolute best in local and international MMA talent.

Some years ago, Mr Chatri Sityodtong was sitting in a New York sushi restaurant. The hedge fund manager had just enjoyed, in his words, “a record, bang-out year” that earned him tens of millions of dollars. But he was unhappy when he had more reason than most to be cheered by riches. When he was young, his father was a property broker turned bankrupt, reduced to selling fruit on the street, with the family surviving on one meal a day.

Chen Lei’s May victory in Singapore, in a fight staged under the auspices of the ONE Championship – a mixed martial arts media company based in the Lion City – continued the rising Chinese MMA star’s winning streak.

ONE Championship chairman Chatri Sityodtong has issued an open invitation to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), following its senior official’s comments on ONE’s atomweight champion Angela Lee. Last week, UFC senior vice-president for International and Content, Joe Carr, told The New Paper that Lee was “long way from competing with the top strawweight women in the UFC”.

Being the largest mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion in the world, ONE Championship chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong believed that the ‘Ultimate Fighting Championship’ (UFC) still lacked the novelty of martial arts as celebrated in Asia. He believed that ONE Championship is, at least five to 10 larger than the American-based company in Asia, due to its popularity among fans in the continent.

MANILA, Philippines – After falling short in two of his ONE Championship outings in 2016, Filipino fighter Jimmy “The Silencer” Yabo hopes to start his 2017 campaign on a better note. Yabo will test his mettle against Brazilian jiu-jitsu ace Bruno Pucci in the undercard of ONE: Light of a Nation on June 30 at the Thuwunna Indoor Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar.

Singapore-based organization ONE Championship will hold a mixed martial arts event in Surabaya, East Java, on July 29. The competition, dubbed the “Conquest of Kings,” will feature a main bout between Kazakhstan’s Kairat Akhmetov and Brazil’s Adriano Moraes in the flyweight class.

ABS-CBN Sports got to chat with MMA legend and current ONE Championship Vice President Rich “Ace” Franklin, and we got to tackle a number of topics, from their recent trip to Manila, which was arguably one of the best cards ONE has had so far, to Angela Lee’s inspiring performance in Singapore, and much more!