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ONE Fight Night 10 adds Aung La N Sang vs. Fan Rong to lineup in Colorado

The lineup for ONE Championship’s first U.S. event continues to grow with the addition of a rebooked middleweight fight.

The lineup for ONE Championship’s first U.S. event continues to grow with the addition of a rebooked middleweight fight.

[autotag]Aung La N Sang[/autotag] (29-13) is set to take on [autotag]Fan Rong[/autotag] (19-3) this spring at ONE Championship Fight Night 10. The booking was confirmed by a person with knowledge of the matchup. An official announcement from the promotion is expected soon.

N Sang and Rong were supposed to meet at ONE Fight Night 6 in January, but Rong tested positive for COVID-19 and was replaced by Gilberto Galvao.

ONE Fight Night 10 will be the promotion’s debut in the U.S. The card takes place May 5 at 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo., near Denver, and streams on Amazon Prime Video. In the main event, flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson puts his title on the line in a trilogy rematch with Adriano Moraes.

N Sang, from Myanmar, will be looking to extend his current streak to three. The former middleweight and light heavyweight champion knocked out Yushin Okami in the first round this past November and followed it up with a another quick finish when he took out Galvao less than three weeks ago.

China’s Rong came to ONE in 2019 with a 17-fight winning streak, but had it halted by eventual two-division champ Reinier de Ridder, who beat N Sang to win both titles. Rong won back-to-back fights after that, but in December 2021 was submitted by Vitaly Bigdash. He didn’t fight in 2022.

ONE Championship 120 results, video highlights: John Lineker takes out Kevin Belingon

In his first fight in a year, former UFC standout John Lineker put himself in the ONE Championship title picture with a second-round TKO.

In his first fight in a year, former UFC standout [autotag]John Lineker[/autotag] put himself in the ONE Championship title picture with a second-round TKO.

Lineker (33-9) took out former ONE bantamweight champion [autotag]Kevin Belingon[/autotag] (20-8) with a blistering stoppage worthy of his “Hands of Stone” nickname. Lineker drilled Belingon with a stiff left jab, then came behind it with a right uppercut that put Belingon on the canvas against the fence.

With Belingon covering up, Lineker delivered several quick left hands that forced the referee to jump in for a TKO at the 1:16 mark of the second round. The fight was the ONE Championship 120 main event at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore. The bout took place Oct. 30, but aired on a tape-delay basis Friday.

The win was Lineker’s second straight after moving to ONE from the UFC in 2019 after a loss to Cory Sandhagen. Lineker was in the UFC for 16 fights and went 12-4 as a flyweight and bantamweight. His career there was marked with several instances of weight misses in both divisions.

But as a featherweight with ONE, he now has the stoppage of a former champion to go with his promotional debut – a decision over Muin Gafurov in October 2019.

Belingon dropped his third straight fight. It was his first bout after three straight fights against Bibiano Fernandes. In November 2018, he beat Fernandes with a split decision to win the bantamweight title. But he lost the belt to him in March 2019 when he was disqualified for illegal elbows. When they rematched in October 2019, Fernandes submitted him to retain the belt.

Check out highlights from the main event and co-main event above.

ONE Championship 120 results included:

  • John Lineker def. Kevin Belingon via TKO (punches) – Round 2, 1:16
  • [autotag]Geje Eustaquio[/autotag] def. [autotag]Min Jong Song[/autotag] via unanimous decision
  • [autotag]Murad Ramazanov[/autotag] def. [autotag]Hiroyuki Tetsuka[/autotag] via unanimous decision
  • [autotag]Fan Rong[/autotag] def. [autotag]Yuri Samoes[/autotag] via unanimous decision
  • [autotag]Hiroshi Minowa[/autotag] def. [autotag]Lito Adiwang[/autotag] via split decision

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