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On Friday, Asia-based MMA promotion ONE Championship holds its latest event, Call to Greatness, in Singapore. Two fighters compete for a newly minted muay thai title belt in the main event…
On Friday, Asia-based MMA promotion ONE Championship holds its latest event, Call to Greatness, in Singapore. Two fighters compete for a newly minted muay thai title belt in the main event…
ONE Championship heads to Singapore this week for ONE: Call To Greatness. The event takes place on Friday, February 22, 2019, inside the Lion City’s Indoor Stadium. The main event features Thailand’s Stamp Fairtex and America’s Janet Todd competing for the inaugural ONE Atomweight Muay Thai World Title. The ONE Lightweight Grand Prix also continues […]
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ONE Championship heads to Singapore this week for ONE: Call To Greatness. The event takes place on Friday, February 22, 2019, inside the Lion City’s Indoor Stadium.
The main event features Thailand’s Stamp Fairtex and America’s Janet Todd competing for the inaugural ONE Atomweight Muay Thai World Title.
The ONE Lightweight Grand Prix also continues in earnest this week with two quarterfinal bouts scheduled to occur.
Stamp Fairtex is already the ONE Super Series Atomweight Kickboxing World Champion. On Friday she will aim to become the first female champ-champ in ONE’s history by claiming the atomweight Muay Thai title.
The 21-year-old began fighting competitively at the age of five and developed a reputation as one of the best up-and-coming female fighters in Thailand. Stamp’s success earned her a coveted sponsorship deal with the legendary Fairtex gym, becoming the gym’s first female fighter.
Last October, she cruised to a unanimous decision victory over Taiwan’s Kai Ting Chuang to claim her kickboxing crown and will be the favorite going into Friday’s clash.
Todd discovered Muay Thai in her final year of college, developing an instant passion for the sport. Since taking up the ‘Art of Eight Limbs,’ the 33-year-old Californian native has accumulated bronze medals at the World Games and IFMA World Championships, as well as gold at the IFMA Pan American Championships.
Training out of Boxing Works, California under the tutelage of the renowned Bryan Popejoy, Todd will need to establish herself early on and attempt to unsettle Stamp before the Thai establishes her rhythm. Todd will have the height advantage, and in a fight with an athlete as technically strong as Stamp, any advantage helps.
ONE’s Singapore cards seem to bring out the best in its fighters so expect to see an entertaining bout when these two clash.
By the end of ONE: Call to Greatness, the makeup of one of the Lightweight Grand Prix Tournament’s semifinal bouts will be known. The two scheduled quarterfinal bouts come from the same side of the Grand Prix bracket.
The first match-up sees Malaysian-born Kiwi Ev Ting taking on Turkey’s Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev. Following the pair’s clash, hometown hero Amir Khan takes on Costa Rica’s Ariel Sexton in the evening’s co-main event.
Fans should pay close attention to Ting vs. Arslanaliev. Arslanaliev, is known for producing vicious first-round finishes. All but one of his seven professional fights have ended in the opening round.
The 24-year-old comes into this bout on the back of stunning knockout of Russian Timofey Nastyukhin. In Ting, Arslanaliev will be fighting one of the promotion’s veterans.
The 29-year-old was riding a three-fight winning streak last year before falling to Shinya Aoki in their lightweight title eliminator in October. Ting is a well-rounded fighter who will provide Arslanaliev a step up in competition.
The early exchanges will be revealing. If Ting can survive Arslanaliev’s opening surge, his experience could prove to be more than the Dagestani can handle.
In the night’s second quarterfinal, Khan will look to bounce back after his recent loss to reigning champion Eduard Folayang. Khan’s strength is his stand-up which is what would have made the loss to follow striker Folayang even more disheartening. In Sexton, he will be facing a BJJ black belt with nine submissions to his name.
The clash of styles could make for a tense opening round. Both men will look to engage their opponent in the area where they feel the strongest.
For a newer generation of MMA fans, Japan’s Masakazu Imanari is likely to be more well known for the moves he created, like the “Imanari Roll” than his in-ring exploits. Friday night offers these, as well as older, fans a rare opportunity to see the man himself in action
The 43-year-old will met undefeated South Korean Kwon Won Il in a bantamweight clash.
It will be a fast turn around for Kwon, who only made his promotional debut a month ago at ONE: Eternal Glory, which he won with an eye-catching first-round finish of Anthony Engelen.
Imanari comes into this bout on the back of last October’s first-round submission win over Radeem Rahman. The Japanese fighter made his ONE debut in 2018 and fought three times for a record of 1-2.
Imanari may not be the force he once was, but the savvy veteran is still capable of embarrassing any opponent who takes him lightly.
Main Card:
Stamp Fairtex vs. Janet Todd
Amir Khan vs. Ariel Sexton
Ev Ting vs. Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev
Nieky Holzken vs. Mustapha Haida
Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke vs. Jeremy Miado
Kudo Masahide vs. Petchdam Petchyindee Academy
Kong Sambo vs. Zhang Chenglong
Preliminary Card:
Regian Eersel vs. Anthony Njokuani
Ayaka Miura vs. Laura Ballin
Masakazu Imanari vs. Kwon Won Il
Rudy Agustian vs. Khon Sichan
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By Dan Paulo Errazo The Philippines’ Jeremy “The Jaguar” Miado believes that respect is an important value for all mixed martial artists. Miado will once more face Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke on 22 February at ONE: CALL TO GREATNESS in a highly-anticipated rematch. Miado stopped Dejdamrong, a Muay Thai legend, with a single punch in the […]
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By Dan Paulo Errazo
The Philippines’ Jeremy “The Jaguar” Miado believes that respect is an important value for all mixed martial artists.
Miado will once more face Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke on 22 February at ONE: CALL TO GREATNESS in a highly-anticipated rematch.
Miado stopped Dejdamrong, a Muay Thai legend, with a single punch in the first round of their first encounter last March 2018. Miado seeks victory once again, with all efforts focused on defeating one of his idols.
“No matter which martial artist I go up against, whether he’s better than me or not, I should respect him as a martial artist,” Miado said.
The Filipino was still in college, pursuing a degree in Criminology, when he decided to take up Muay Thai. It was through his then coach that he learned a lesson more valuable than learning how to fight.
“My coach back in Bicol, Dante Madrideo [taught me the value of respect],” Miado said. “He was my first coach who really took me under his wing.”
“The Jaguar” embodies the value of respect in his daily life and with everyone he encounters in the gym, on the street, and in the cage.
“Not just as a martial artist, but as a regular person, respect is important. You won’t get respect if you don’t know how to give it,” Miado said.
“In the cage, if you don’t display this value, win or lose, people will not care. If you won, then good for you, but if you lost, then they would say that you had it coming.
“If you respect the people around you, win or lose, people will be proud of what you did in the cage. You can’t be respectful in the cage and be a different person in everyday life.”
Miado is happy performing with ONE Championship as the promotion drives the same values to all athletes and employees. He also gets a bigger audience as a steward of ONE promoting the organization’s core values.
“ONE Championship is a huge platform where millions of people are watching,” Miado said.
“If you display this value, people will respect you just the same.
“It is especially true against an opponent because you’re not really enemies outside the cage. Competing against each other is what we do, it is our sport, but outside of the cage, we’re all friends.”
Miado will be facing the former ONE Strawweight World Champion at the Singapore Indoor Stadium this Friday, and he is proud to have this rematch with one of the athletes he highly respects.
“I have great respect for him, because when I was starting, I was looking up to him,” he concluded.
“It is a huge honor for me to be able to be on the opposite side of the cage competing against him. That’s why I want to do my best in our match.”
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History could be made this Friday at ONE: Call to Greatness, as ONE atomweight kickboxing world champion Stamp Fairtex looks to become the promotion’s first-ever two-sport …
History could be made this Friday at ONE: Call to Greatness, as ONE atomweight kickboxing world champion Stamp Fairtex looks to become the promotion’s first-ever two-sport …
Yushin Okami is now a member of the ONE Championship roster. Okami has 47 professional mixed martial arts bouts. While he has competed in Pancrase and Rumble on the Rock, “Thunder” has spent most of his fighting career under the Ultimate Fi…
Yushin Okami is now a member of the ONE Championship roster. Okami has 47 professional mixed martial arts bouts. While he has competed in Pancrase and Rumble on the Rock, “Thunder” has spent most of his fighting career under the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) banner. In fact, he last competed in the UFC back in […]
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ONE Athlete and lightweight contender Ev “E.T” Ting has plenty of tools at his disposal inside the ring. But as it turns out, the New Zealander of Malaysian heritage has just as many outside it. The 29-year-old had a passion for all things automotive and was once a promising mechanic with dreams of working with […]
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ONE Athlete and lightweight contender Ev “E.T” Ting has plenty of tools at his disposal inside the ring. But as it turns out, the New Zealander of Malaysian heritage has just as many outside it.
The 29-year-old had a passion for all things automotive and was once a promising mechanic with dreams of working with some of the globe’s most renowned manufacturers.
After earning his official qualification, Ting enjoyed stints with American car-makers Dodge and French powerhouse Peugeot before linking up with Porsche.
He had his sights set on a winning a highly-sought after apprenticeship with the famous German manufacturer until he had his hopes dashed by a classic case of nepotism.
“I went through two interviews and I was super close to getting it, and I’d already been working there for six months,” Ting recalls.
“Then I found out that they had given it to one of the bosses’ sons who didn’t even have an interview or any certifications.”
Ultimately, it became turning point in Ting’s life, one which steered him in the immediate direction of a lifelong commitment to martial arts.
“That was one of those moments where I thought – this isn’t for me. I’m going to do something where I can work and earn credit myself. At that time I was following MMA a bit, so it made sense,” Ting recalled.
That led to Ting heading along to Auckland MMA, where he first crossed paths with Hamish Robertson – his mentor and head trainer to this day.
“I showed up and told coach Hamish that I really wanted to give this a shot, I wanted to make this a career. He put me through a fundamental program then developed me through this journey. He’s definitely been a big guidance through my career,” said Ting.
Ten years later, the Kiwi has worked his way to the upper echelon of ONE Championship’s talent-laden lightweight roster and is one of eight athletes involved in the ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix tournament, all vying for supremacy in Japan this March.
Ting will get formalities underway with his bout against rising star, Dagestani Saygid “Dagi” Arslanaliev at ONE: Call to Greatness in Singapore on February 22.
Arslanaliev is fresh off an impressive win over the dangerous Timofey Nastyukhin, but Ting believes he has the edge in experience.
“I’ve been training hard and I feel like I have more ring time and cage time – hopefully I can drag him into the deep waters,” Ting concluded.
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