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“I fight for passion, not fashion” These were the words that first caught my attention when I met 20-year-old Singaporean MMA starlet, Syafiq Abdul Samad, better known as Syafiq ‘The Slasher’ (1-0 MMA) in my parts. I don’t think it’s wrong for any athlete to fight for a handsome paycheck. But thi...
The inaugural ONE Asia MMA Summit took place in June of last year, and featured some of the biggest movers and shakers in the Asian MMA scene. This year, on the 2nd & 3rd of May, the Singapore-based promotion will be having its 2nd invitation-only Asian MMA Summit, that promises to be bigger than...
ONE Fighting Championship kicked off its inaugural Bantamweight Grand Prix in October of last year, and the tournament featured some of the biggest names in both Asian and North American Mixed Martial Arts. Jens Pulver, Kevin Belingon, Thanh Vu and Masakatsu Ueda won their respective bouts in the...
The 8th installment of ONE Fighting Championship is set to invade Singapore once again in a little under 8 weeks, and the fight card is already beginning to shape up rather nicely. First reported by the folks at BloodyElbow.com, a Bantamweight tilt pitting Russia’s Yusup Saadulaev (9-2) and Evolv...
A Lightweight tilt between Evolve MMA’s Eddie ‘The Magician’ Ng and Muayfit’s Arnaud ‘The Game’ Lepont has been added to the upcoming ONE FC 8: Kings & Champions fight card. As previously reported, this event goes down on April 5th at the Singapore Indoor Stadium situated in Singapore. A Lightwei...
ONE FC 7: Return of Warriors goes went down last night at the Stadium Putra situated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Not only did the event play host to the first ever Malaysian Featherweight Championship Tournament, but a new Featherweight champion was crowned when Muayfit’s Eric Kelly contested Team...
Press Release: February 1st 2013 01 February 2013 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC) announced today that all but one of the fighters have made weight and are ready for ONE FC: RETURN OF WARRIORS which takes place tomorrow evening at Stadium Putra in Kuala Lumpur, Malay...
Top Malaysian Bantamweight contender Raymond Tan (1-0) has been forced off the ONE FC 7: Return of Warriors fight card, due to an undisclosed reason. The Malaysian, who was originally slated to face Thanh Vu (2-1) in ONE FC’s final Bantamweight Grand Prix Elimination bout, will now be replaced on...
A Lightweight championship tilt between reigning 155-lbs champion Kotetsu Boku and Evolve MMA’s Shinya Aoki has been booked for ONE FC 8: Kings & Champions, an event which is set to go down on April 5th at the Singapore Indoor Stadium situated in Singapore. Victor Cui, CEO of ONE Fighting Champio...
ONE Fighting Championship, one of the world’s top Mixed Martial Arts organizations, is set to showcase its first event of 2013 on February 2nd at the Stadium Putra situated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Dissection of the ONE FC 7: Return of Warriors Fight Card This marks the second time that the Sin...
Press Release: ONE Fighting Championship Training to be a Mixed Martial Artist in Singapore is a better job than working on Wall Street? Jake Butler certainly thinks so. Jake Butler studied at the prestigious Princeton University and graduated from the Ivy League school with an economics degree. ...
Press Release: 17th January 2012 CEO of ONE Fighting Championship Victor Cui has been invited as a speaker at one of Asia’s newest and highest profile sport summits, The Business of Sport Summit (@BOSSummit 2013) on 9 April. This Summit is exclusively designed for attendees to learn from the nat...
Press Release – 16th January 2013 16 January 2013 – Singapore: Three Indonesian Mixed Martial Artists are set to battle in ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC) on 2 February 2013 when ONE FC: RETURN OF WARRIORS takes place live from the world-renowned Stadium Putra in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. These...
The largest MMA promotion in Asia returns to Kuala Lumpur on 2nd February with an incredibly stacked fight card featuring Asia’s top MMA talent and international stars, and this time, ONE FC is Powered by TUNE TALK! Headlining the card is the first ONE FC Featherweight World Championship title fi...
Press Release – 13 December 2012 Singapore: ONE Fighting Championship™ (ONE FC) announced today that it will be returning to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 2 February 2013 with a Featherweight World Championship title fight between Eric “The Natural” Kelly and Honorio “The Rock” Banario. All the acti...
When 30-year-old Eric Kelly first burst onto the MMA scene at URCC 14: Aggression, few would have predicted the prospect of a young Filipino fighter. Kelly may not have earned enough recognition during his tenure with the URCC, but he was certainly dragged into the limelight following a 3-0 stint...