ONE In The Media

Angela Lee’s focus is not so much on what she has already achieved in a short but spectacular career. It’s more on what lies ahead. “It’s been great so far but there’s still a long way to go,” says the 20-year-old. “I have so much more I want to achieve in this sport so this is just the beginning.”

Next weekend, ONE Championship welterweight world champion Ben Askren will defend his title against rising star, Agilan Thani. Askren has been on the sidelines for over a year having last defeated Nikolay Aleksakhin in April 2016.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Mixed martial arts may have started as a male-dominated sport, but women have grappled their way to the upper echelons of MMA and will only gain more popularity in the coming years, undefeated champion Angela Lee said.

Ben Askren has a message he likes to send out to anyone casting an envious eye on the crown he wears as both the king of One Championship’s welterweight division and the dominant male mixed martial arts fighter in Asia.

MANILA — Angela “Unstoppable” Lee is set to square off with Brazil’s Istela Nunes in the main event of ONE: Dynasty of Heroes, which takes place at Singapore Indoor Stadium on May 26. Lee, a Canadian who resides in Singapore, made history in May 2016 when she captured the inaugural atomweight title with a victory over Japan’s Mei Yamaguchi.

MANILA, Philippines – American mixed martial artist Ben “Funky” Askren is brimming with confidence ahead of his much-awaited return to the ONE Championship cage on May 26, where he will defend his welterweight title against Agilan “The Alligator” Thani of Malaysia.

SINGAPORE, May 18 (Reuters) – Mixed martial arts may have started as a male-dominated sport, but women have grappled their way to the upper echelons of MMA and will only gain more popularity in the coming years, undefeated champion Angela Lee said.

SINGAPORE: Mixed martial arts may have started as a male-dominated sport, but women have grappled their way to the upper echelons of MMA and will only gain more popularity in the coming years, undefeated champion Angela Lee said.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Ben Askren is confident of extending his undefeated streak when he defends his welterweight title at One Championship’s Dynasty of Heroes event at the Singapore Indoor Stadium next Friday. The 32-year-old American, who has a 15-0 win-loss record, will face Malaysia’s Agilan Thani (7-0).

Lessons on how to triumph over struggle and strife from the founder of ONE Championship from the launch issue of Inc. Southeast Asia Magazine

SINGAPORE – Fresh off an overwhelmingly successful show in Philippines, where it enjoyed record-busting TV viewership numbers, ONE Championship chairman and founder Chatri Sityodtong said his Mixed-Martial Arts (MMA) promotion is just getting started. With American-based UFC – widely regarded as the biggest MMA promotion in the world – still trying to regain a foothold in the Asian market following several years of missteps, Singapore-based ONE Championship has stormed forward decisively and left its rival out cold on the mat.

While Sityodtong, CEO Victor Cui and their hard-working staff of roughly 175 rightfully deserve a lot of credit for building the brand from the ground up, there is another individual largely responsible for navigating ONE to where it is today. A man that has stood by Sityodtong’s side from the very beginning as his top advisor and shareholder, but chosen to remain anonymous while assisting his former Harvard Business School classmate with high-level decisions behind-the-scenes. That man is Saurabh Mittal: founder and chairman of private global investment company Mission Holdings, former senior partner of Farallon Capital Management ($21.5B assets under management) and co-founder of public investment conglomerate Indiabulls ($2.4B valuation in 2015).