A highly anticipated ONE Championship welterweight title fight rematch between Ben Askren and Luis Santos at ONE: Pride of Lions later this year.
Following a report from The Las Vegas Review-Journal, ONE Championship officials confirmed the news on Tuesday night.
Ben Askren vs Luis Santos II headlines November ONE Championship event
Askren and Santos squared off for the first time at ONE Championship: Valor of Champions this past April. The bout ended due to an eye-poke in the first round, and was declared a no-contest.
In Askren’s (14-0, 1 NC) first ONE appearance, he stopped Bakhtiyar Abbasov in 2014. Four months later, he knocked out former champion Nobutatsu Suzuki to gain the 170-pound belt. Askren’s bout with Santos was his first title defense.
Santos (61-9-1, 1 NC) was riding a seven-fight winning streak prior to his last fight with ‘Funky’. He hasn’t lost since 2012, when he was stopped by Ryan Ford in Bellator MMA.
ONE Championship: Pride of Lions takes place live from Singapore on Nov. 13.
