ONE Championship 80 Highlights: Matheis Scores Huge Uppercut KO

“ONE Championship 80: Conquest of Heroes” went down this past weekend (Sat., September 22, 2018) from Jakarta Convention Center in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the main event, Joshua Pacio outlasted Yoshitaka Naito in a five-round rematch to win the ONE strawweight title. Pacio previously fell to Naito for the belt two years ago. The card also featured […]

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“ONE Championship 80: Conquest of Heroes” went down this past weekend (Sat., September 22, 2018) from Jakarta Convention Center in Jakarta, Indonesia.

In the main event, Joshua Pacio outlasted Yoshitaka Naito in a five-round rematch to win the ONE strawweight title. Pacio previously fell to Naito for the belt two years ago.

The card also featured a bevy of exciting fights and finishes as well. The most thrilling was perhaps Adrian Matheis’ huge one-punch KO of Angelo Bimoadji. Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev’s TKO of Timofey Nastyukhin and Koyomi Matsushima’s first-round win over former champ Marat Gafurov also stood out.

Watch the ONE Championship 80: Conquest of Heroes highlights via MMAjunkie here:

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Joe Rogan Describes Why Weight Cutting Is Worse Cheating Than Steroids

Joe Rogan thinks that extreme weight cutting is worse than using ********.

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The topic of extreme weight cutting continues to place a black eye on the sport of MMA. With high-profile fights affected by extreme cuts on a seemingly weekly basis, octagon commentator Joe Rogan has become one of the most prominent critics of the practice.

Rogan recently sounded off on weight cutting during his Joe Rogan Experience Podcast (via MMA Fighting), claiming that the draining cuts fighters are putting themselves through is cheating on a level above even that of ********:

“It is stupid,” Rogan said. “What it is is sanctioned cheating. It’s sanctioned cheating and it’s cheating at a much higher scale even than PEDs.

“If you get two people and they both weigh 135 [pounds] but they’re both totally hydrated and one of them has been doing ******** and one of them hasn’t been doing ********, the difference will be far less than if one person weighs in at 135 [pounds] but then balloons up to 160 [pounds] and then gets into that octagon at 160 [pounds] but there’s no PEDs involved. That’s a much greater advantage than someone whose doing some sort of testosterone thing or something. They’re compromised but the benefit of being so much larger might outweigh being compromised.

“Dude, if I was running s**t, I’d fix that first. That would be the first thing I would fix.”

The solution to such a sport-wide problem isn’t easy, but Rogan pointed to Asia’s ONE Championship, who experienced the death of flyweight Yang Jian Bing due to an extreme cut. Afterward, they implemented a system where fighters are weighed and tested for hydration levels every day leading up to a fight. It may be a stringent program, but fighters lives are on the line so Rogan believes every promotion should follow the path:

“People push it, they do push it,” Rogan said. “If you give them more time, they are gonna push it. If they know that they can rehydrate longer – which is the idea, that it’s safer because you can rehydrate from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. instead of from 4 p.m. on. I just think give them all the time they need. ONE FC has laid out the ground work. Look at what they did with their hydration tests and implement that.”

The problem of extreme weight cuts has been instilling itself in the UFC at a level more than ever right now, and a solution does not appear imminent. Perhaps attempting a system similar to that of ONE would go far in terms of solving the dangerous health threat it provides to fighters, who seem to always be willing to put their short and long-term health on the line for any advantage in a fight.

That lead to the death of a fighter in ONE, who changed their weigh-in practices in a huge way as a result.

But the UFC has not. Will it take the death of one of their fighters for them to finally fix the biggest threat to their athletes’ health?

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Video: Renzo Gracie Returns With Emotional Submission Win

Renzo Gracie picked up his first MMA victory in 11 years today.

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After more than eight years away from the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA), Renzo Gracie has made a triumphant return.

The Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend stepped back into the cage at today’s ONE Championship: Reign of Kings in Manila, Philippines, facing Japanese veteran Yuki Kondo. The fight wasn’t exactly an action-packed affair early on, however, as both men drew yellow cards for inactivity.

In the second frame, Gracie picked up the pace, taking Kondo to the ground and getting his back to lock in a rear-naked choke for an emotional win many years in the making.

Watch his first  victory in MMA since 2007 here:

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Highlights: The ‘Greatest Match We’ve Ever Seen’ In ONE

This was a fight fans definitely shouldn’t have missed.

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ONE Championship 75 may have just played host to the 2018 Fight Of The Year.

Two-division champion Aung La N Sang defended his middleweight crown against Ken Hasegawa in the main event. Veteran play-by-play commentator Michael Schiavello couldn’t believe what he was seeing, saying the following (via MMA Junkie):

“Words can’t describe!” Schiavello said. “Suffice to say, Aung La N Sang vs. Ken Hasegawa was the greatest match we’ve ever seen!”

Don’t believe the hype? Just check out the side-by-side photos of Sand and Hasegawa’s faces after going to war:

Both men showed a tremendous amount of heart in the fight, but in the end Sang retained his title with a fifth round knockout after connecting on an uppercut. He also has to worry about defending the welterweight title in the near future, after successfully defending the promotion’s 185-pound strap against Hasegawa.

The full results for the ONE Championship 75 event can be found below:

  • Aung La N Sang def. Ken Hasegawa via R5 TKO (strikes, 3:13)
  • Leandro Issa def. Roman Alvarez via R1 submission (arm-triangle choke, 1:26)
  • Sagetdao Petpayathai def. Ma Jia Wen via unanimous decision
  • Tetsuya Yamada def. Rafael Nunes via R 2 TKO (doctor’s stoppage, 4:05)
  • Chen Lei def. Ahmad Qais Jasoor via R3 TKO (1:27)
  • Kritsada Kongsrichai def. Jeremy Miado via unanimous decision
  • Mite Yine def. Saw Darwait via R1 TKO (strikes, 2:48)

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Highlights: The ‘Greatest Match We’ve Ever Seen’ In ONE

This was a fight fans definitely shouldn’t have missed.

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ONE Championship 75 may have just played host to the 2018 Fight Of The Year.

Two-division champion Aung La N Sang defended his middleweight crown against Ken Hasegawa in the main event. Veteran play-by-play commentator Michael Schiavello couldn’t believe what he was seeing, saying the following (via MMA Junkie):

“Words can’t describe!” Schiavello said. “Suffice to say, Aung La N Sang vs. Ken Hasegawa was the greatest match we’ve ever seen!”

Don’t believe the hype? Just check out the side-by-side photos of Sand and Hasegawa’s faces after going to war:

Both men showed a tremendous amount of heart in the fight, but in the end Sang retained his title with a fifth round knockout after connecting on an uppercut. He also has to worry about defending the welterweight title in the near future, after successfully defending the promotion’s 185-pound strap against Hasegawa.

The full results for the ONE Championship 75 event can be found below:

  • Aung La N Sang def. Ken Hasegawa via R5 TKO (strikes, 3:13)
  • Leandro Issa def. Roman Alvarez via R1 submission (arm-triangle choke, 1:26)
  • Sagetdao Petpayathai def. Ma Jia Wen via unanimous decision
  • Tetsuya Yamada def. Rafael Nunes via R 2 TKO (doctor’s stoppage, 4:05)
  • Chen Lei def. Ahmad Qais Jasoor via R3 TKO (1:27)
  • Kritsada Kongsrichai def. Jeremy Miado via unanimous decision
  • Mite Yine def. Saw Darwait via R1 TKO (strikes, 2:48)

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Video: Shinya Aoki Pulls Off Insane Submission In ONE Championship

Watch Shinya Aoki pull off another incredible submission in Singapore today:

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The UFC is back from Chile tomorrow, but earlier today (Fri., May 18, 2018) ONE Championship held its “Unstoppable Dreams” event from the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

The event was headlined by an anticipated rematch between women’s strawweight champion Angela Lee and Mei Yamaguchi, yet it was longtime veteran Shinya Aoki who ultimately stole the show.

Facing Rasul Yakhyaev on the main card, Aoki used his legendary grappling skills to wrap up a triangle choke the likes of which we’ve rarely if ever seen in mixed martial arts by seemingly incorporating a second hold with the choke.

The win gave Aoki an unprecedented 25 submission victories throughout his 40 total MMA wins. Check out his latest impressive tapout courtesy of Zombie Prophet on Twitter right here:

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