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ONE Championship 127 video: Check out the best of the action from Singapore

Recap the best of the action from ONE Championship 127 at Singapore Indoor Stadium, including Mauro Cerilli’s victory over Abdulbasir Vagabov.

Asia’s leading mixed martial arts organization was back in action Friday as “ONE Championship 127: Unbreakable II” delivered a feast of finishes at Singapore Indoor Stadium.

All six fights – five MMA bouts and one kickboxing match – delivered finishes, with former Cage Warriors heavyweight champion [autotag]Mauro Cerilli[/autotag] scoring a second-round TKO in the night’s main event.

Italy’s Cerilli finished previously-undefeated [autotag]Abdulbasir Vagabov[/autotag] with a thumping leg kick, followed by a flurry of punches, to cap off a night that delivered plenty of highlights.

The co-main event saw [autotag]Daichi Takenaka[/autotag] submit Brazilian flyweight [autotag]Ivanildo Delfino[/autotag], while South Korea’s [autotag]Won Il Kwon[/autotag] added another win to his record with a crushing body-shot knockout of China’s [autotag]Rui Chen[/autotag].

The opening bout of the night saw the eagerly anticipated ONE debut of Senegalese wrestler [autotag]Oumar Kane[/autotag], and the man known as “Reug Reug” marked the occasion with a first-round finish as he TKO’d Hong Kong striking specialist [autotag]Alain Ngalani[/autotag] in their heavyweight showcase.

But the best finish of the night undoubtedly came in the lone kickboxing clash on the card, as Russian light heavyweight contender [autotag]Beybulat Isaev[/autotag] folded up [autotag]Mihajlo Kecojevic[/autotag] with a sledgehammer right hook in their ONE Super Series bout.

Check out the best of the action via the highlight video above.

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ONE Championship 127: Mauro Cerilli bounces back with TKO victory in Singapore

Italian heavyweight contender Mauro Cerilli bounced back into the win column with a second-round finish at ONE Championship 127.

Former Cage Warriors heavyweight champion [autotag]Mauro Cerilli[/autotag] bounced back into the win column in the main event of ONE Championship 127 in Singapore to move one step closer to a heavyweight title rematch with Brandon Vera.

Cerilli lost out to Vera via first-round knockout in his first title challenge back at ONE Championship 85 in November 2018. He bounced back with a victory over Alain Ngalani, but fell to another defeat as he was outpointed by Arjan Bhullar at “ONE Championship: Century – Part 2” in October 2019.

But, after taking more than a year away from the cage, “The Hammer” returned in fine form to snap [autotag]Abdulbasir Vagabov[/autotag]’s 10-fight winning streak and push himself back into the heavyweight title conversation.

Vagabov pushed the pace from the opening bell as he chased the backpedaling Cerilli around the cage, with the Italian throwing the occasional one-two combination to give the Russian contender a moment’s pause.

Vagabov continued his forward pressure, but Cerilli ensured that the Russian’s winging punches connected with nothing but air as he kept out of punching range, then connected with occasional counter-strikes of his own. After struggling to make an impact with his strikes, Vagabov then turned to his wrestling, but his takedown attempts late in the round were well defended by the big Italian.

After a frustrating first round, Vagabov started Round 2 noticeably slower and Cerilli took full advantage in the opening seconds as he stepped into range and slammed a powerful kick to the Vagabov’s left hamstring. The impact of the shot forced the Russian down to his hands and knees and Cerilli moved in and unloaded a trio of clean left hands to his grounded opponent before referee Olivier Coste dived in to stop the bout at the 26-second mark.

ONE Championship 103 results: Meng Bo debuts with first-round knockout of Laura Balin

It didn’t take long for Meng Bo to launch her introduction to ONE Championship fans Saturday.

It didn’t take long for [autotag]Meng Bo[/autotag] to launch her introduction to ONE Championship fans Saturday.

In her long-awaited promotional debut, after having two previously scheduled fights against two-time title challenger Mei Yamaguchi scrapped, Bo (14-5) took out former title challenger [autotag]Laura Balin[/autotag] (11-6) with relative ease in the top MMA fight at “ONE Championship 103: Age of Dragons.”

Balin held her own in the opening minute of the fight, coming at Bo. But when Bo landed a big overhand right, Balin quickly dropped to the canvas. It took Bo only a few punches on the ground to have the fight stopped at the 2:18 mark of the first round. It was Bo’s fourth straight win and her first fight in 13 months.

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In other MMA fights on the card, which featured ONE Super Series kickboxing and muay Thai fights in the final three bouts, [autotag]Ritu Phogat[/autotag] (1-0) took out [autotag]Nam Hee Kim[/autotag] (0-1) with a first-round TKO and [autotag]Jeremy Miado[/autotag] (9-4) knocked out [autotag]Miao Li Tao[/autotag] (5-2) in the first round.

Ahead of those stoppages, [autotag]Tang Kai[/autotag] (10-2) outworked [autotag]Edward Kelly[/autotag] (12-8) for a unanimous decision, giving Kelly a second straight loss after seven fights of up-and-down results. [autotag]Yusup Saadulaev[/autotag] (19-5-1) took a split decision from [autotag]Daichi Takenaka[/autotag] (12-2-1), giving him six wins in his past seven fights. And [autotag]Hexi Getu[/autotag] (7-4) outworked [autotag]Ramon Gonzales[/autotag] (4-3) for a unanimous decision.

ONE Championship 103 MMA results included:

  • Meng Bo def. Laura Balin via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 2:18
  • Ritu Phogat def. Nam Hee Kim via TKO (strikes) – Round 1, 3:37
  • Jeremy Miado def. Miao Li Tao via knockout (punches) – Round 1, 3:01
  • Tang Kai def. Edward Kelly via unanimous decision
  • Yusup Saadulaev def. Daichi Takenaka via split decision
  • Hexi Getu def. Ramon Gonzales via unanimous decision