ONE In The Media

n exactly a fortnight, Joseph Schooling and Angela Lee will prove once again that there is indeed common ground for a swimmer and a mixed martial arts fighter. On May 26, Schooling will accompany Lee down to the One Championship cage at the One: Dynasty of heroes event at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

One Championship is bringing the heat with its Dynasty of Heroes card in Singapore in two weeks’ time, with world champions Angela Lee and Ben Askren headlining a card brimming with talent from the roster of Asia’s leading mixed martial arts crew. Consider the event as the first salvo fired in 2017 as One looks to deal with the return to the region of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), while working to further its own reach across Asia.

The mixed martial arts card on April 21 that featured the world lightweight title fight between Eduard Folayang and Ev Ting turned out to be the most watched MMA event in the country, according to ONE Championship. Besides filling the 20,000-capacity Mall of Asia Arena, the card, dubbed ONE: Kings of Destiny which saw Team Lakay score a 5-0 sweep, garnered a 26% peak ratings share.

ONE Championship believe they have now won the war against UFC for mixed martial arts (MMA) supremacy in Asia after their booming start to 2017. April’s Kings of Destiny card held in Manilla, Philippines, broke new records for the Singapore-based organisation, becoming the most-watched MMA show in the country’s television history. 20,000 watched on cage-side as hometown hero Eduard Folayang defended his lightweight title against Ev Ting, with millions more keeping up athome.

In a battle of mixed martial arts dominance in Asia, David takes on Goliath. ONE has surged ahead with a whopping 54 shows and its footprint today extends the length and breadth of Asia, with a solid hold on China. The franchise’s most significant moment came last May when it held a fight card in Thailand, which was previously resistant to MMA competing with the indigenous muay thai on its home soil. In the interim, UFC, founded in 1993, struggled.

SINGAPORE – One Championship chief Victor Cui sees a rosy future for the Singapore-based mix martial arts promotion, despite growing competition from Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). The Las Vegas-based UFC announced in February that it would stage a second event in Singapore on June 17, and has also increased its presence in the region, which is pretty much One’s backyard.

SINGAPORE – ONE Championship chief executive officer Victor Cui is unperturbed by the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s attempt to overshadow the ONE: Dynasty of Heroes event on May 26 by getting former world bantamweight champion Holly Holm to headline UFC Fight Night: Singapore on June 19.

ONE Championship is preparing for one of their biggest shows yet of 2017 as they head to the Indoor Stadium in Singapore for ONE: Dynasty of Heroes on May 26. In the main event of the evening, ONE Championship atomweight world champion Angela Lee will take on challenger Istela Nunes in a battle of two undefeated professional fighters.

SINGAPORE – Mixed martial arts promotion One Championship has enjoyed significant growth in its television viewership and social media numbers since 2014. Data released by Nielsen, Facebook and Repucom shows that the Singapore-based organisation, set up in 2011, has grown from 352 million social media impressions to four billion.

(CNN)With typical bravado, Conor McGregor claimed he was worth $4.2 billion dollars “to this company,” at the media conference for UFC 205 in September. While that figure was slightly exaggerated — UFC had been sold for $4 billion a few months earlier — there’s no doubting McGregor is very much the face of the franchise. But there’s one fight club where McGregor’s larger than life personality wouldn’t be altogether welcome — ONE Championship, UFC’s mixed martial art equivalent in Asia — according to the franchise’s founder Chatri Sityodtong.

Right before the Honorio Banario – Jaroslav Jartim bout at ONE Championship: Kings of Destiny began Friday night at the Mall of Asia Arena, a portion of the crowd began to chant an all-too familiar chant in Filipino combat sports. “MANNY! MANNY! MANNY!” As it turns out, eight-division boxing world champion, Philippine senator, and ONE Championship shareholder Manny Pacquiao was in attendance, and was making his way to the locker room to give the night’s main eventer, Eduard ‘The Landslide’ Folayang a little pep talk before his fight.

ONE Championship (ONE) sent shockwaves throughout the capacity crowd at the state-of-the-art Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines with another exciting evening of world-class mixed martial arts action. ONE: KINGS OF DESTINY showcased a series of compelling bouts, punctuated by a thrilling main event that saw Eduard Folayang successfully defended his ONE Lightweight World Championship, defeating Ev Ting by unanimous decision.