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ONE Championship: Empower results – Jing Nan Xiong dominates Michelle Nicolini to retain title

Check out the results from the historic first all-female card for ONE Championship.

On an historic card for ONE Championship, [autotag]Jing Nan Xiong[/autotag] kept her belt and staved off [autotag]Michelle Nicolini[/autotag]’s hope to become the promotion’s next superstar.

Xiong (16-2) outworked Nicolini (6-3) on the feet and mostly stayed away from Nicolini’s submission attempts and hopes for the fight to play out on the canvas. In doing so, Xiong retained the women’s strawweight title in the ONE Championship: Empower main event Friday at Singapore Indoor Stadium. The event was the first in ONE history to be made up exclusively of women’s fights.

Xiong’s title defense was her fifth, a ONE Championship record.

Ahead of that title fight, ONE’s atomweight grand prix kicked off with four quarterfinal fights featuring eight women from eight different countries. And while the four women in the semifinals are set the matchups are not. Those matchups will be picked through a fan vote. The eventual tournament winner will move on to a title fight with champion Angela Lee.

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

ONE Championship is back Friday with the launch of the promotion’s atomweight grand prix and is marking the occasion with a special all-women’s event.

ONE Championship is back Friday with the launch of the promotion’s atomweight grand prix and is marking the occasion with a special all-women’s event.

Here’s how to watch the card from Singapore, which sees reigning strawweight champion [autotag]Jing Nan Xiong[/autotag] (15-2) put her title on the line against Brazil’s [autotag]Michelle Nicolini[/autotag] (6-2) in the in the night’s main event, as well as four quarterfinal grand prix matchups.

‘ONE Championship: Empower’ announced for Sept. 3, features rescheduled atomweight grand prix

The opening round of ONE Championship’s atomweight grand prix has been rescheduled for Sept. 3.

The opening round of ONE Championship’s atomweight grand prix has been rescheduled for Sept. 3.

Promotion officials recently announced that “ONE Championship: Empower” takes place on that date, streaming on B/R Live. The all-women’s card is headlined by a strawweight title fight between reigning champ [autotag]Jing Nan Xiong[/autotag] (15-2) and Brazilian challenger [autotag]Michelle Nicolini[/autotag] (6-2), and features the quarterfinal round of ONE’s atomweight grand prix, with the tournament winner earning a shot against reigning champion Angela Lee.

The grand prix was originally set to take place in May, but travel restrictions due to the ongoing global pandemic forced the promotion to reschedule.

The “ONE Championship: Empower” lineup includes:

MAIN CARD (B/R Live, 8:30 a.m. ET)

  • Champ Jing Nan Xiong vs. Michelle Nicolini – for strawweight title
  • [autotag]Seo Hee Ham[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Denice Zamboanga[/autotag] – atomweight grand prix quarterfinal
  • [autotag]Stamp Fairtex[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Alyona Rassohyna[/autotag] – atomweight grand prix quarterfinal
  • [autotag]Meng Bo[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Ritu Phogat[/autotag] – atomweight grand prix quarterfinal
  • [autotag]Alyse Anderson[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Itsuki Hirata[/autotag] – atomweight grand prix quarterfinal

PRELIMINARY CARD (B/R Live, 7 a.m. ET)

  • [autotag]Julie Mezabarba[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Mei Yamaguchi[/autotag] – atomweight grand prix alternate bout
  • [autotag]Grace Cleveland[/autotag] vs. opponent TBA – atomweight grand prix alternate bout