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ONE Championship Announces Demetrious Johnson & Eddie Alvarez’s Debuts

Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez will make their ONE Championship debuts just three months into the new year. On the heels of a landmark year, the Asia-based fight promotion hopes to have an even bigger 2019. ONE Championship will make its debut in Japan on March 31, 2019, at Ryogoku Kokugikan. That is an 11,000-capacity […]

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Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez will make their ONE Championship debuts just three months into the new year.

On the heels of a landmark year, the Asia-based fight promotion hopes to have an even bigger 2019.

ONE Championship will make its debut in Japan on March 31, 2019, at Ryogoku Kokugikan. That is an 11,000-capacity venue near Tokyo. The event will stream on the promotion’s award-winning app.

In his first bout with the promotion Johnson will fight Yuya Wakamatsu in a flyweight bout. Alvarez will take on Timofey Nastyukin in his debut with ONE.

Also on the card, atomweight champion Angela Lee will move up in weight to challenge the strawweight champion Xiong Jing Nan. Middleweight champ Aung La N Sang and lightweight champ Eduard Folayang will defend their belts as well. 

Along with “Super” Sage Northcutt, Johnson and Alvarez were three huge free agent sigings for ONE Championship this year. Couple that with the promotion landing Meisha Tate as an exeutive and a massive United States TV deal and the future looks bright for the ONE in 2019.

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Sage Northcutt Aims To Become Three-Sport Champion In ONE

Sage Northcutt is expecting big things from his career with ONE Championship. The former UFC star recently signed with the Singapore-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion in free agency. At the young age of just 22-years-old, “Super” has some big goals for his tenure with ONE. Given the promotion has MMA, Kickboxing, and Muay Thai […]

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Sage Northcutt is expecting big things from his career with ONE Championship.

The former UFC star recently signed with the Singapore-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion in free agency. At the young age of just 22-years-old, “Super” has some big goals for his tenure with ONE. Given the promotion has MMA, Kickboxing, and Muay Thai competition, Northcutt is aiming to become a three-sport champion, as he told Luke Thomas in an interview for “The MMA Hour” (via MMA Fighting):

“What I think is cool is, they have, not only do they have MMA, but they also have Muay Thai and they have kickboxing,” Northcutt said. “So, I want to be the champion in MMA, I want to be the champion in Muay Thai and kickboxing.

” I want to do it all. And I think that ONE Championship is going to be really cool because I believe that I’m going to display my different skills in each of those and I believe be the champ in each of those. I think it’s the perfect league.”

Northcutt is expected to make his ONE debut in March at the promotion’s show from Tokyo, Japan. While with the UFC, Northcutt suffered the only two losses of his MMA career. He was submitted by both Mickey Gall and Bryan Barberena.  However, he ended his UFC career on a three-fight win streak.

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Sage Northcutt Isn’t Worried About Spreading Himself Thin At ONE

Sage Northcutt isn’t worried about taking on too many things upon his ONE Championship arrival. Northcutt is expected to make his ONE Championship debut in March at the promotion’s show in Tokyo, Japan. “Super” signed with ONE C…

Sage Northcutt isn’t worried about taking on too many things upon his ONE Championship arrival. Northcutt is expected to make his ONE Championship debut in March at the promotion’s show in Tokyo, Japan. “Super” signed with ONE Championship after becoming a free agent following his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) run. At the age of 22, […]

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Sage Northcutt Reacts To Dana White’s Version Of His UFC Departure

Sage Northcutt reacts to the version that UFC President Dana White has given regarding his departure from the Las Vegas-based promotion. The rising prospect decided during his time as a free agent that it was best for him to sign with ONE. This was instead of staying with the UFC. The UFC President talked about […]

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Sage Northcutt reacts to the version that UFC President Dana White has given regarding his departure from the Las Vegas-based promotion.

The rising prospect decided during his time as a free agent that it was best for him to sign with ONE. This was instead of staying with the UFC. The UFC President talked about Northcutt’s status while speaking on the UFC Unfiltered podcast. This is where he claimed that they chose not to re-sign Northcutt and not that Northcutt left them.

However, Northcutt made it known in an interview with Ariel Helwani that he was the one who made the call to leave the UFC.

“I know at first, the UFC said that I had been cut from the UFC, but it actually didn’t happen like that,” Northcutt said. “I wasn’t cut from the UFC. Actually, the UFC wasn’t able to match the incentive. What was being offered from ONE Championship. So they actually had to physically release me. It was the best thing to release me.”

His Side

Northcut made an appearance back in 2015 on the debut episode of Dana White’s Lookin’ for a Fight web series. He would later go 6-2 in the UFC. The prospect continued by reflecting his options with the UFC about his future plans.

“When it was said that I was being released or cut from the UFC to go be able to develop as a fighter. Go work on my skills, that wasn’t the case,” Northcutt said (H/T to MMaNews). “I was actually offered to fight for the top 10 in the UFC and fight Ponzinibbio. Fight the main event inside Argentina. So I accepted that fight. And we said, OK, let’s do a one-fight contract for this so I could prove myself that I can fight in the top 10. I can go beat the top-10 guys. And then, we can come back and we can create a contract with more fights. Like four or five fights if we want.

“But then, the UFC after that, they came back saying, ‘Do you want to fight Ponzinibbio?’ And we said yes. They came back after that and said, OK, Sage, we’re going to ask you to do a two-fight contract. And me and my coaches actually said, no, you know what? We’re not going to do that.”

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