Category: ONE Championship

ONE Championship: Bad Blood results – Anatoly Malykhin KOs Kirill Grishenko for interim title

ONE Championship has a new heavyweight champion, and he got there with authority.

ONE Championship has a new heavyweight champion, and he got there with authority.

Anatoly Malykhin (11-0) knocked out Kirill Grishenko (5-1) in the second round to win the interim heavyweight title in the “ONE Championship: Bad Blood” main event in Singapore.

Malykhin used a speed advantage early in the fight and had Grishenko quickly playing defense. Malykhin unloaded with punches in bunches just past the midway point of the second round and finally landed the punch that put Grishenko on the canvas.

For the knockout, Malykhin picked up $100,000 in bonuses to go with his new title.

The ONE Championship: Bad Blood results included:

  • Anatoly Malykhin def. Kirill Grishenko via knockout (punches) – Round 2, 3:42 – to win interim heavyweight title
  • Chen Rui def. Mark Abelardo via unanimous decision
  • Jihin Radzuan def. Mei Yamaguchi via unanimous decision
  • Woo Sung Hoon def. Yodkaikaew Fairtex via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 0:18
  • Danial Williams def. Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke via knockout (punches) – Round 2, 1:35
  • Dustin Joynson def. Hugo Cunha via split decision
  • Lin Heqin def. Bi Nguyen via unanimous decision
  • Odie Delaney def. Thomas Narmo via submission (shoulder lock) – Round 1, 1:06

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Positive COVID-19 test forces John Lineker out of Bibiano Fernandes title fight at ‘ONE Championship: Bad Blood’

“ONE Championship: Bad Blood” has lost its main event during fight week.

“ONE Championship: Bad Blood” has lost its main event during fight week.

[autotag]John Lineker[/autotag] (34-9) has been forced out of Friday’s bantamweight title fight against champion [autotag]Bibiano Fernandes[/autotag] (24-4) due to a positive COVID-19. The news was first reported by MMA Fighting on Wednesday.

Lineker took to Instagram to address his withdrawal, saying that the promotion’s plans are to reschedule the bout.

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The pair will have been rescheduled for the second time. Fernandes and Lineker originally were slated for the Dec. 5 “ONE: X” 10th anniversary show in Singapore, but the event was canceled due to rising COVID-19 cases on the island city-state.

Per promotion officials, the interim heavyweight title fight between Kirill Grishenko vs. Anatoly Malykhin will now serve as “Bad Blood’s” headliner on Friday.

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“🚨 UPDATE 🚨 The ONE Interim Heavyweight World Title fight between Anatoly Malykhin and Kirill Grishenko is your new main event for this Friday!

“John Lineker had to withdraw from his bout against Bibiano Fernandes due to COVID-19 health and safety protocols, but their fight will be rebooked ASAP.”

“ONE Championship: Bad Blood” takes place at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore. The main card streams on the B/R Live app Friday at 7:30 a.m. ET.

How to watch ‘ONE Championship: Bad Blood’ – Fight card, start time, live stream

ONE Championship is back Friday with “ONE Championship: Bad Blood,” which includes two title fights at the top of the card.

ONE Championship is back Friday with “ONE Championship: Bad Blood,” which two title fights at the top of the card.

Here’s how to watch the “ONE Championship: Bad Blood” card from Singapore, where Bibiano Fernandes (24-4) puts his bantamweight title on the line against John Lineker (34-9) and Kirill Grishenko (5-0) takes on Anatoly Malykhin (10-0) for the interim heavyweight title.

ONE Championship: Only the Brave results – Zhang Lipeng blasts Ruslan Emilbek with 32-second KO

Former UFC fighter Zhang Lipeng wasted no time putting a stamp on his second fight for ONE Championship.

Former UFC fighter [autotag]Zhang Lipeng[/autotag] wasted no time putting a stamp on his second fight for ONE Championship.

Lipeng (32-11-2) knocked out [autotag]Ruslan Emilbek[/autotag] (16-3) in just 32 seconds in the featured MMA bout at ONE Championship: Only the Brave on Friday. When Emilbek threw a right hand early in the fight, Lipeng slid back, then countered with a left that connected. Lipeng landed a right hand that was on the button while Emilbek was falling to the canvas.

The finish was one of the fastest in ONE lightweight history. Lipeng earned a $50,000 bonus for the finish.

Lipeng returned from a layoff of nearly two years in August 2021 and outpointed former champion Eduard Folayang in his promotional debut. His Friday knockout was the fastest finish of his career.

Lipeng fought four times in the UFC from 2014-2015 and went 2-2.

ONE Championship: Only the Brave MMA results included:

  • Zhang Lipeng def. Ruslan Emilbek Uulu via knockout (punch) – Round 1, 0:32
  • [autotag]Hiroyuki Tetsuka[/autotag] def. [autotag]Edson Marques[/autotag] via knockout (punches) – Round 3, 1:05
  • [autotag]Jarred Brooks[/autotag] def. [autotag]Hiroba Minowa[/autotag] via unanimous decision
  • [autotag]Tatsumitsu Wada[/autotag] def. [autotag]Wang Shuo[/autotag] via unanimous decision
  • [autotag]Purev Otgonjargal[/autotag] def. [autotag]Micael De Jesus[/autotag] via unanimous decision

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How to watch ‘ONE Championship: Only the Brave’ – Fight card, start time, live stream

ONE Championship is back Friday with “ONE Championship: Only the Brave,” which includes seven MMA fights and the return of Zhang Lipeng.

ONE Championship is back Friday with “ONE Championship: Only the Brave,” which includes seven MMA fights and the return of Zhang Lipeng.

Here’s how to watch the “ONE Championship: Only the Brave” card from Singapore, where welterweight Chinese standout Zhang Lipeng (31-11-2) takes on Ruslan Emilbek (16-2).

‘ONE Championship: Heavy Hitters’ results: Jing Nan Xiong retains belt, Saygid Izagakhmaev claims $50k bonus

ONE Championship strawweight champ Jing Nan Xiong retained her belt, while Saygid Izagakhmaev announced his arrival to the promotion.

ONE Championship kicked off the promotion’s 2022 schedule on Friday in Singapore, and strawweight champ [autotag]Jing Nan Xiong[/autotag] was able to retain her belt, while lightweight prospect [autotag]Saygid Izagakhmaev[/autotag] announced his arrival to the promotion in emphatic fashion.

The action took place in the featured bouts of “ONE Championship: Heavy Hitters,” which streamed on B/R Live from Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Xiong (17-2) was dominant in the main event, outstriking grappling specialist [autotag]Ayaka Miura[/autotag] (11-4) over the course of five rounds and cruising to a unanimous decision to notch the sixth consecutive defense of her strawweight belt.

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Meanwhile, Khabib Nurmagomedov protege Izagakhmaev (20-2) was perhaps even more dominant in his second-round submission win over [autotag]James Nakashima[/autotag] (12-3). While Nakashima had some early moments of success on the feet, Izagakhmaev quickly settled into his own rhythm before dragging the action to the floor and scoring a second-round submission via arm-triangle choke, as well as a $50,000 bonus for his efforts.

After the win, Izagakhmaev boldly called out MMA legends Shinya Aoki and Eddie Alvarez.

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You can check out a replay of the event in the video above.

Complete MMA results from ‘ONE Championship: Heavy Hitters’ include:

MAIN CARD (B/R Live, 7:30 a.m. ET)

  • Champ Jing Nan Xiong def. Ayaka Miura via unanimous decision – to defend strawweight title
  • Saygid Izagakhmaev def. James Nakashima via submission (arm-triangle choke) – Round 2, 2:17
  • [autotag]Senzo Ikeda[/autotag] def. [autotag]Elipitua Siregar[/autotag] via knockout (strikes) – Round 3, 2:00

PRELIMINARY CARD (B/R Live, 6:30 a.m. ET)

  • [autotag]Tiffany Teo[/autotag] def. [autotag]Meng Bo[/autotag] via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 2, 3:45
  • [autotag]Shuya Kamikubo[/autotag] def. [autotag]Troy Worthen[/autotag] via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 3, 4:36

ONE Championship: Heavy Hitters results – Jing Nan Xiong continues dominance, defends title

The first ONE Championship show of the year is in the books, and Jing Nan Xiong still is champion.

The first ONE Championship show of the year is in the books, and [autotag]Jing Nan Xiong[/autotag] still is champion.

Xiong (17-2) retained her women’s strawweight title with a unanimous decision over [autotag]Ayaka Miura[/autotag] (11-4) in the main event. It was Xiong’s sixth successful defense of the belt. ONE Championship: Heavy Hitters took place at Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Miura hoped to take the fight to the canvas against the champ, but Xiong’s boxing and power was too strong, as was her takedown defense en route to the decision win. The 34-year-old Chinese fighter won for the third straight time and 12th time in 13 fights. Her only loss in that stretch was when she move down 10 pounds to challenge for Angela Lee’s atomweight title and was submitted in 2019.

In other MMA action on the card, Khabib Nurmagomedov protege [autotag]Saygid Izagakhmaev[/autotag] submitted former title challenger [autotag]James Nakashima[/autotag] with an arm-triangle choke in the second round. Izagakhmaev picked up a $50,000 performance bonus from ONE after the fight.

Japan’s [autotag]Senzo Ikeda[/autotag] finished prospect [autotag]Elipitua Siregar[/autotag] with a third-round knockout. And on the prelims, [autotag]Shuya Kamikubo[/autotag] remained unbeaten in ONE with a second-round submission of [autotag]Troy Worthen[/autotag]. And women’s strawweight contender [autotag]Tiffany Teo[/autotag] dominated [autotag]Meng Bo[/autotag] on the canvas for a second-round rear-naked choke finish.

ONE Championship: Heavy Hitters results:

  • Champ Xiong Jing Nan def. Ayaka Miura via unanimous decision – to retain women’s strawweight title
  • Saygid Izagakhmaev def. James Nakashima via submission (arm-triangle choke) – Round 2, 2:17
  • Senzo Ikeda def. Elipitua Siregar via knockout (strikes) – Round 3, 2:00
  • Tiffany Teo def. Meng Bo via submission (rear-naked Choke) – Round 2, 3:45
  • Shuya Kamikubo def. Troy Worthen via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 3, 4:36

ONE Championship announces dates for Johnson-Rodtang special rules bout, three title fights

Demetrious Johnson, Bibiano Fernandes and Angela Lee will be back in action for the first time in a long time.

ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong on Wednesday announced the dates for two upcoming events that will feature the return of former UFC champion Demetrious Johnson, as well as three title fights.

Sityodtong delivered the news during an appearance on “The MMA Hour.”

On Feb. 11 at ONE Championship: Bad Blood, bantamweight champion Bibiano Fernandes will defend his title against former UFC standout John Lineker.

On March 26 at ONE X, the promotion’s 10th anniversary event, Johnson will take on Rodtang Jitmuangnon in a previously announced special rules bout. Also on the card, two title fights will take place, with Angela Lee defending her atomweight title against Stamp Fairtex, while flyweight champ Adriano Moraes takes on Yuya Wakamatsu.

Fernandes vs. Lineker and Johnson vs. Rodtang originally had been slated to happen last December at ONE X, which was postponed because of COVID-19.

Both ONE: Bad Blood and ONE X are expected to take place at Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Below is a closer look on each fight.

Twitter reacts: UFC, MMA fighters and personalities celebrate Christmas on social media

See how fighters and other personalities from the MMA industry celebrated Christmas and the holiday season to close out 2021.

The holiday season is here, and with no major events scheduled until New Year’s Eve, the MMA community had the rare opportunity to sit back, relax and celebrate with their loved ones.

Check below to see how fighters and other personalities from the industry celebrated Christmas and the holiday season to close out 2021.

USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie rankings, Dec. 14: Major move at women’s bantamweight

Get caught up with the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie rankings ahead of this weekend’s action.

A major upset in the women’s bantamweight division is the focus of this week’s USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie rankings.

On Saturday at UFC 269, [autotag]Julianna Pena[/autotag] pulled off one of the greatest upsets of all time by submitting [autotag]Amanda Nunes[/autotag] to claim the bantamweight title. As a result, her ranking shot to the top of the list. Also, with the UFC lightweight title on the line in the main event of the final pay-per-view of 2021, [autotag]Charles Oliveira[/autotag] recorded his first title defense by finishing [autotag]Dustin Poirier[/autotag], solidifying his position atop the 155-pound division. The event as a whole caused a few shifts across many divisions, as it was filled with top-ranked matchups.

This weekend, UFC Fight Night 199 features a heavyweight clash between former title challenger Derrick Lewis and rising star Chris Daukaus. Also, an important welterweight matchup between Belal Muhammad and Stephen Thompson could provide a shift in next week’s rankings.

Check out where those fighters rank in the dropdown above and be sure to find out next week where things stand.