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Check out these photos highlighting Oumar Kane’s TKO win over Batradz Gazzaev at ONE Championship 161 from Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Check out these photos highlighting [autotag]Oumar Kane[/autotag]’s TKO win over Batradz Gazzaev at ONE Championship 161 from Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore. (Photos courtesy of ONE Championship)
Here’s what you need to know to watch ONE Championship 161 on Friday.
ONE Championship is back Friday with a mixed combat sports event, with five of 12 fights set as MMA bouts.
Here’s how to watch “ONE 161: Petchmorakot vs. Tawanchai” from Singapore.
Arjan Bhullar has his ONE Championship return booked.
[autotag]Arjan Bhullar[/autotag] has a date and opponent for his return to the cage.
The ONE Championship heavyweight champion is set to unify the titles against interim champion [autotag]Anatoly Malykhin[/autotag] on Sept. 29 at ONE championship 161 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.
The news was reported by Ariel Helwani on Wednesday.
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Bhullar (11-1) most recently fought in April 2021 when he won the ONE Championship belt by taking it from then-champ Brandon Vera with a second-round TKO. Bhullar only has fought twice since his departure from the UFC in the summer of 2019, and is 2-0.
Malykhin (11-0) won the interim title in his most recent outing in February. He knocked out Kirill Grishenko in the second round to win the belt. The 34-year-old is undefeated with a 3-0 record in ONE Championship.
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ONE flyweight champion Adriano Moraes and Demetrious Johnson will run things back soon.
[autotag]Adriano Moraes[/autotag] and [autotag]Demetrious Johnson[/autotag] will run things back.
Reigning champion Moraes (20-3) will defend his flyweight title against Johnson (30-4-1) in the main event of ONE Championship 161, which takes place Aug. 26 (Aug. 27 locally) at Singapore Indoor Stadium and streams live in U.S. primetime on Amazon Prime Video.
ONE announced the rematch Friday after an initial report by Ariel Helwani.
Moraes handed former UFC flyweight champ Johnson his first stoppage loss when he knocked him out with a knee in the second round in April 2021 at ONE on TNT 1. He has since defended his title by submitting Yuya Wakamatsu at ONE: X in March.
Johnson hasn’t competed in an MMA fight since losing to Moraes, but he tried his hand at a special rules bout against ONE muay Thai flyweight champ Rodtang Jitmuangnon this past September. Johnson hung in there with Rodtang in the first round under muay Thai rules and went on to submit him in Round 2 under the MMA ruleset.
Johnson is no stranger to rematches, winning second fights against Ian McCall and Joseph Benavidez in 2012 and 2013, respectively, but losing to Henry Cejudo in his final UFC fight in 2018.
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