ONE Championship returned to Singapore Friday with a stacked lineup, topped by lightweight king Christian Lee opposite Okay Rae Yoon.
Yoon earned a shot on the lightweight gold following decision wins over Eddie Alvarez and Marat Gafurov earlier this year in ONE, and scored one more shut victory, winning the title thru unanimous decision for South Korea after 5 no longer easy-fought rounds.
Lee attempted takedowns early, but Yoon stuffed each shots. Lee ended up on his wait on, securing a standing rear-naked choke in the second stanza, but somehow Yoon escaped the assault.
Yoon harm Lee on the feet with a factual hand in spherical three, with Lee appearing to be in effort sooner than losing Yoon quickly after with a huge factual hand. Lee wobbled Yoon again in the last minute of the fifth spherical, which Yoon answered with a flying knee, but they went the distance. In the tip, all three judges declared Yoon the contemporary ONE lightweight champion.
“I essentially delight in a amount of appreciate for Okay Rae Yoon,” Lee acknowledged in his post-fight interview. “He’s a warrior, he’s a actually hard fighter, but I obtained that fight. I essentially delight in absolute appreciate for Okay Rae Yoon, but let’s bring it to the board. I need an rapid rematch. That became as soon as bullshit. I obtained that fight. Lift it to the board, make that decision overturned, safe whatever it takes to get a rematch.”
Victoria Lee, the younger sister of ONE stars Christian and Angela Lee, improved to 2-0 as a authentic MMA fighter with a second-spherical stoppage over beforehand unbeaten Victoria Souza, ending the contest with punches and elbows on the bottom.
Joshua Pacio save his strawweight title on the motorway in the second-to-last MMA fight of the cardboard, and took Yosuke Saruta out in decrease than four minutes.
Pacio, who went 1-1 in opposition to Saruta in championship bouts in 2019, knocked the challenger down three instances sooner than a barrage of punches compelled the referee to name it at 3: 38 of the outlet stanza.
Pacio is now 8-1 in his past 9, essentially the most attractive blemish being a rupture up decision to Saruta.
Old two-division ONE champion Martin Nguyen became as soon as taking a impress to soar wait on from a knockout loss to Thanh Le entering his first fight in almost a year, but became as soon as no match for Kim Jae Woong. The South Korean skill dropped Nguyen with a supreme factual counter, following up with four punches that left Nguyen out frigid on the bottom.
Amir Aliakbari also suffered a brutal loss in Singapore. The Iranian wrestler, a previous RIZIN heavyweight, met undefeated Anatoly Malykhin in a heavyweight contest. Malykhin, now 10-0 in MMA, confirmed heavy hands to fall Aliakbari as soon as sooner than the devastating blow that knocked him unconscious.
The early fragment of the cardboard featured the MMA debut of Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida. The 13-time jiu-jitsu world champion and two-time ADCC gold medalist made short work of TUF extinct and kickboxing specialist Anderson “Braddock” Silva, tapping the heavyweight striker with a north-south choke all over the outlet spherical (glance here).
Test the total ONE: Revolution outcomes below.
Okay Rae Yoon def. Christian Lee thru unanimous decision
Joshua Pacio def. Yosuke Saruta thru first-spherical TKO (3: 38)
Jae Woong Kim def. Martin Nguyen thru first-spherical knockout (3: 15)
Anatoly Malykhin def. Amir Aliakbari thru first-spherical knockout (2: 57)
Victoria Lee def. Victoria Souza thru second-spherical TKO (3: 58)
Lito Adiwang def. Hexigetu thru unanimous decision
Marcus Almeida def. Anderson Silva thru first-spherical submission (north-south choke) (2: 55)
James Yang def. Roel Rosauro thru second-spherical TKO (2: 00)
Kickboxing
Capitan Petchyindee Academy def. Mehdi Zatout thru unanimous decision
Petchtanong Petchfergus def. Zhang Chenglong thru unanimous decision
Muay Thai
Taiki Naito def. Petchdam Gaiyanghadao thru rupture up decision
