Details of the ONE Championship event scheduled for April 21 in Mall of Asia Arena in Manila has officially been announced on Monday. The main event sees lightweight champion Eduard Folayang defend his strap for the first time against Ev Ting. Folayang won the title by way of third-round knockout over Shinya Aoki in November. Ting […]
Details of the ONE Championship event scheduled for April 21 in Mall of Asia Arena in Manila has officially been announced on Monday. The main event sees lightweight champion Eduard Folayang defend his strap for the first time against Ev Ting. Folayang won the title by way of third-round knockout over Shinya Aoki in November. Ting […]
At the ONE Championship 49: Defending Honor event, which went down this weekend at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore, a Japanese MMA legend suffered an upset loss in the main event.
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At the ONE Championship 49: Defending Honor event, which went down this weekend at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore, a Japanese MMA legend suffered an upset loss in the main event.
Featured above is the complete fight between former PRIDE star and longtime Japanese MMA star Shinya Aoki and Filipino MMA fighter Eduard Folayang, which saw Folayang KO Aoki at the 0:41 mark of the third round to become the new ONE Lightweight Champion.
For complete ONE Championship 49: Defending Honor results from this weekend, click here.
UFC veterans Damacio Page and Kamal Shalorus both had fairly similar runs in the Octagon. After showing promise in the WEC, both men were disappointing at best once called up to the sport’s biggest stage. Both men went 0-3 in the UFC before receiving their walking papers during the summer of 2012. Now, they’ve both recently booked their first fights in their post-UFC careers, and neither man has an easy rebound fight lined up.
When we last saw Damacio Page, he was being choked out by Alex Caceres during UFC on Fuel TV 4, marking his fourth straight loss. “The Angel of Death” was released from his contract shortly afterwards, and now, the former UFC bantamweight has decided to sign with Legacy FC. He will make his promotional debut against 4-0 prospect Patrick Ybarra at Legacy FC 20 on May 31.
Before you start screaming “squash match,” know that Ybarra has finished all four of his professional fights by armbar, and that none of those fights made it out of the first round. Combined with the fact that seven of Page’s eight losses have come by submission, Ybarra probably has a better chance at pulling off the upset than you think.
UFC veterans Damacio Page and Kamal Shalorus both had fairly similar runs in the Octagon. After showing promise in the WEC, both men were disappointing at best once called up to the sport’s biggest stage. Both men went 0-3 in the UFC before receiving their walking papers during the summer of 2012. Now, they’ve both recently booked their first fights in their post-UFC careers, and neither man has an easy rebound fight lined up.
When we last saw Damacio Page, he was being choked out by Alex Caceres during UFC on Fuel TV 4, marking his fourth straight loss. “The Angel of Death” was released from his contract shortly afterwards, and now, the former UFC bantamweight has decided to sign with Legacy FC. He will make his promotional debut against 4-0 prospect Patrick Ybarra at Legacy FC 20 on May 31.
Before you start screaming “squash match,” know that Ybarra has finished all four of his professional fights by armbar, and that none of those fights made it out of the first round. Combined with the fact that seven of Page’s eight losses have come by submission, Ybarra probably has a better chance at pulling off the upset than you think.
Likewise, when we last saw Kamal Shalorus, he was getting choked out by Rafael dos Anjos in the first round of their fight at UFC on Fuel TV 3. “The Prince of Persia” has recently signed on with ONE FC, and will be facing Eduard Folayang during his promotional debut at ONE FC 9 – which coincidentally also takes place on May 31. Even though both fighters are coming off of losses, this should be a very interesting match-up. Folayang is a very entertaining striker, and one of the top fighters that ONE FC has to offer.
So what do you think? Which fighter has the better chance of ending their losing streak this May?
Guess who didn’t get the “Bring your big gold belt” memo. PicProps: onefc.com
OK, first: if you didn’t manage to wrangle your ass out of bed this morning to log on and watch ONE FC’s inaugural event, you can still catch all the fights for free at Sherdog:
Watch em, then come in and we’ll talk. Or you can just come in and we’ll tell you about it.
Guess who didn’t get the “Bring your big gold belt” memo. PicProps: onefc.com
OK, first: if you didn’t manage to wrangle your ass out of bed this morning to log on and watch ONE FC’s inaugural event, you can still catch all the fights for free at Sherdog:
Watch em, then come in and we’ll talk. Or you can just come in and we’ll tell you about it.
Much the excitement for the event came from the comparisons to PRIDE. According to ONE’s website, they utilize “a combination rule set of global MMA best practices, blending Asian and non-Asian rules”, meaning no restriction to elbow, knee, or kicking attacks on a grounded opponent. We didn’t see any at the first event, and I’m still not entirely clear on how the fighters were instructed.
They didn’t get Lenne Hardt (AKA The Crazy Screaming PRIDE Lady), but they did get Yuji Shimada (AKA “I don’t care, kill him. Do you want to win?”) in to referee.
It does seem that ONE is shooting for high production values as PRIDE did, but there were no grand displays. No elaborate entrances, although there was an amusingly eclectic mix of music chosen for walkouts, which led to the revelation that Bas Rutten digs Lady Gaga and Johnny Cash. The crowd was relatively sparse in the 12,000 capacity stadium, but they were an enthusiastic bunch.
And with good reason: the card was full of good action throughout.
For the grappling fans:Kelly vs Chilson, BJJ aces vs South Koreans named “Kim”. Both Gregor Gracie and Leandro Issa outpointed Kims, and there was jits popping out all over the place. Gracie’s opponent Seok Mo Kim had outstanding submission defense, escaping a triangle and surviving multiple arm triangle chokes from Gracie, who is going to be catching hell from family for failing to finish a fight in which he scored and maintained mount for minutes at a time. Kelly took home a $5K bonus for sub of the night for sleeping Chilson with a standing RNC.
For the KO junkie: Sityodong vs Mashamaite, Ng vs Bo, Colossa vs Yu, Rahman vs Ghosh. Both Ng and Bo are generally favorites of livebloggers everywhere. Beats the hell out of Magomed Sultanakhmedov, Georgi Karakhanyan, and Jadamba Narantungalag, is all I’m saying.
For the “PRIDE mismatch to make the home team look like a ninja” fan: Rahman vs Ghosh. Raheem Rahman picked up the $5K knockout of the night bonus after plowing through his opponent in the first.
For the sadist: Moreira vs Wang. Not a gory fight, but painful nonetheless. Yuji Shimada has seen some world-class ass whoopings in his lifetime, so don’t expect him to stop a fight unless someone’s ear falls off. If a fighter wants to continue to soak up punishment in the second round, Shimada is willing let him. And the fighter does. So Shimada does.
Fight of the night: Folayang vs Kwon. Supposedly a mismatch on paper, this was a fast-paced, even contested fight with lots of fun kick technique and some wild exchanges. Go watch it.
Notes to Victor Cui (ONE CEO): Can you hook up with HDNET? That would be great, then we can watch these in high def, and rewind when Folayang and Kwon are moving to damn fast for us to follow. Also, a little pyrotechnics never hurt nobody.*
All in all a fun event, albeit short of rivaling PRIDE’s inaugural event or UFC’s current dominance. If the first broadcast is any indication, ONE FC will be the leader in MMA in the eastern hemisphere in short order. I know I’ll tune in again.
Filed under: Results, ONE FCMMA Fighting has ONE FC results of A Sol Kwon vs. Eduard Folayang, Phil Baroni vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida and the rest of the inaugural ONE FC event on Sept. 3 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.
MMA Fighting has ONE FC results of A Sol Kwon vs. Eduard Folayang, Phil Baroni vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida and the rest of the inaugural ONE FC event on Sept. 3 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.
In the main event, lightweight Kwon aims for his seventh straight win against the Martial Combat veteran Folayang.
ONE FC results are below.
Eduard Folayang def. A Sol Kwon via unanimous decision (live blog)
Yoshiyuki Yoshida def. Phil Baroni via unanimous decision (live blog)
Eric Kelly def. Mitch Chilson via Technical Sub (Rear-Naked Choke) – Round 1, 3.10
Gregor Gracie def. Seok Mo Kim via Unanimous Decision
Zorobabel Moreira def. Andy Wang via TKO (Knees) – Round 2, 1.49
Eddie Ng def. Yuan Chun Bo via KO (Punches) – Round 1, 0.45
Radeem Rahman def. Susovan Ghosh by TKO (Punches) – Round 1, 3.18
Vuyisile Colossa def. Ma Xing Yu by KO (Punch) – Round 1, 0.49
Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai def. Daniel Mashamaite via TKO (Knee) – Round 2, 0.14
Leandro Issa def. Soo Chul Kim via Unanimous Decision
MMA Fighting has ONE FC results of A Sol Kwon vs. Eduard Folayang,