Demetrious Johnson & Eddie Alvarez have been booked for their next fights by ONE Championship.
Alvarez is slated to meet former ONE champ Eduard Folayang while Johnson will fight Tatsumitsu Wada in a Flyweight Grand Prix semifinal bout. Both fights will take place at the ONE Championship 99: Dawn of Heroes event. On Monday morning, the promotion announced the news.
Demetrious Johnson & Eddie Alvarez Return
The former UFC flyweight champion won his promotional debut when he beat Yuya Wakamatsu in the opening round of the Flyweight Grand Prix in March. This was after ONE Championship signed Johnson as part of a trade with the UFC, who got Ben Askren in return.
On the flip side, the former UFC and Bellator lightweight champion suffered a loss to Timofey Nastyukhin in the opening round of the Lightweight Grand Prix. The event is scheduled to go down on August 2 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines and will air on the B/R Live app. The promotion will be announcing more bouts in the coming weeks. Here’s the card that was revealed:
- Eddie Alvarez vs. Eduard Folayang
- Demetrious Johnson vs. Tatsumitsu Wada – flyweight grand prix semifinal
- Kairat Akhmetov vs. Danny Kingad – flyweight grand prix semifinal
- Honorio Banario vs. Timofey Nastyukhin – lightweight grand prix semifinal
- Reece McLaren vs. Yuya Wakamatsu
- Leandro Issa vs. Daichi Takenaka
- Ayaka Miura vs. Samara Santos
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