Tag: Mauro Cerilli

ONE Championship 167 adds undefeated ‘Vanilla Thunder’ Ben Tynan vs. Mauro Cerilli

One of ONE Championship’s top rising prospects, Ben Tynan is back against former Cage Warriors champion Mauro Cerilli.

ONE Championship’s rising star from the Great White North has his next assignment.

At ONE Championship 167, Canada’s [autotag]Ben Tynan[/autotag] returns to face Italy’s [autotag]Mauro Cerilli[/autotag] in a heavyweight bout, a promotion official recently informed MMA Junkie. The event takes place June 7 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Tynan (6-0) is 2-0 since signing with ONE Championship. He has a 100 percent finishing rate including four first-round stoppages. Prior to his professional career, Tynan went 8-0 as an amateur.

Cerilli (15-5) is a former Cage Warriors heavyweight champion. Since his ONE Championship debut in 2018, Cerilli has split his appearances for the promotion. He holds wins over Alain Ngalani, Abdulbasir Vagabov, and Paul Elliott. He has losses against Brandon Vera, Arjan Bhullar, and Amir Aliakbari.

With the addition, the ONE Championship 167 lineup includes:

  • Champ Stamp Fairtex vs. Denice Zamboanga
  • Champ Tawanchai PK aenchai vs. Jo Nattawut – muay Thai
  • Mikey Musumeci vs. Joao Gabriel Sousa – grappling
  • Johan Ghazali vs. Tran Duy Nhat Nguyen – muay Thai
  • Liam Harrison vs. Katsuki Kitano – muay Thai
  • Blake Cooper vs. Kade Ruotolo
  • Mauro Cerilli vs. Ben Tynan

ONE Fight Night 14 live results

ONE Fight Night 14 takes place Friday and features Stamp Fairtex, John Lineker, Danielle Kelly, and more.

ONE Championship returned Friday with a mixed event filled with some of the promotion’s best competitors.

ONE Fight Night 14 took place at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore and streamed on Amazon Prime.

In the main event fan-favorite [autotag]Stamp Fairtex[/autotag] (11-2) fought former UFC fighter [autotag]Seo Hee Ham[/autotag] (26-9) for the vacant 115-pound title. The championship bout was one of three on the card, but the only that was MMA.

The co-main event featured a 125-pound muay thai title bout between champion [autotag]Smilla Sundell[/autotag] and [autotag]Allycia Rodrigues[/autotag], who battled after rising sensation [autotag]Danielle Kelly[/autotag] went up against [autotag]Jessa Khan[/autotag] in a championship grappling bout.

Former UFC standout [autotag]John Lineker[/autotag] (37-10) also competed on the card, as he battled [autotag]Stephan Loman[/autotag] (17-3) in a matchup that was originally scheduled to take place in 2021.

Check out the full results below:

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.

Video: Warm up for Cage Warriors 113 with 10 classic finishes from the U.K. promotion

Ahead of Cage Warriors 113 this weekend, recap 10 memorable performances from some of the promotion’s biggest stars.

In a world where everything is shutting down and the sporting world is grinding to a halt, U.K.-based MMA promotion Cage Warriors simply refuses to be denied.

With the world in crisis during the COVID-19 outbreak, the promotion has been forced to take its event behind closed doors, move to a different city and shuffle the lineup several times over. Still, while other MMA promotions, including the UFC, have postponed their current schedule, Cage Warriors has been committed to getting this fight card in the books.

It all means Friday night’s Cage Warriors 113 event will be the only major MMA show to take place anywhere in the world this weekend, with UFC Fight Pass likely to pick up a huge audience as fans flock to the streaming platform to get their fix of live MMA action.

Ahead of the event, we’ve dived into Cage Warriors’ archive to dig out this video, which showcases the sort of action you can expect to see from the European promotion. You’ll recognize most of the names here, too, with the likes of [autotag]Nathaniel Wood[/autotag], [autotag]Jack Marshman[/autotag], [autotag]Jack Hermansson[/autotag], [autotag]Joanna Jedrzejczyk[/autotag] and [autotag]Molly McCann[/autotag] all going on to join the UFC after fighting for Cage Warriors.

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ONE Championship heavyweight [autotag]Mauro Cerilli[/autotag] is also featured, as is one of the big stars of Friday’s card, [autotag]Paddy Pimblett[/autotag]. There’s even a cameo from a young Irishman by the name of [autotag]Conor McGregor[/autotag].

The fighters on Friday’s card all harbor dreams of making it to the big stage with the UFC, and will be looking to produce the sort of performance to match those in the video above.

Check out the highlight reel above and relive some of the performances that helped some of Cage Warriors’ alumni earn their shot at the big time.

The latest Cage Warriors 113 card includes:

MAIN CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 5 p.m. ET )

  • Bartosz Fabinski vs. Darren Stewart
  • Mason Jones vs. Joe McColgan – for vacant lightweight title
  • David Bear vs. Nathan Jones
  • Decky Dalton vs. Paddy Pimblett

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 2:30 p.m. ET)

  • Steve Aimable vs. Perry Goodwin
  • Coner Hignett vs. Darren O’Gorman
  • Adam Amarasinghe vs. Jake Bond
  • Matthew Bonner vs. Jamie Richardson
  • Kris Edwards vs. James Hendin
  • Jack Collins vs. Aidan Stephen
  • Kingsley Crawford vs. Lewis Monarch