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The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition will come to a screen near you later this year, and it has found its production partner with Refinery Media. The venture for the largest sports media property in Asia is scheduled for air in Q4 of 2020. “We are very excited to be working with ONE Champions...
As the dust continues to settle following the first ever ‘trade’ in mixed martial arts history, ONE Championship CEO and founder Chatri Sityodtong welcomed the newest addition to the promotions flyweight division, Demetrious Johnson at a late night press conference with media members from across ...
ONE Championship has announced the main event of ONE: HEART OF A LION, which is set for November 9 live from the Singapore Indoor Stadium. ONE Women’s Strawweight Champion, “The Panda” Xiong Jing Nan will defend her title against ONE Women’s Aromweight Champion, “Unstoppable” Angela Lee. Also on ...
The largest sports media property in Asian history, ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced the full card for ONE: IMMORTAL PURSUIT, set for 24 November at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Angela Lee will defend her title against Japanese martial arts veteran Mei Yamaguchi in a highly-anticipate...
May Ooi makes her ONE debut this Friday.
This time last year, Impact MMA’s Garie Tang (1-0) was about to strap on a pair of shin pads ahead of his third Amateur MMA appearance. How times have changed. This past week, Tang, 24, was announced as one of the latest editions to the Singaporean contingent of Singapore Fighting Championship’s ...
‘Hey, we got this champion over here. You want to fight him at 155-lbs?’ Those type of phone calls were all too familiar to Luke Adams (5-8), who would receive a bunch of them when he was in California. He doesn’t kid himself. He knows exactly what those calls meant. It meant someone on the […]
Mixed Martial Arts fans in Singapore were dealt a major blow on Friday when it was announced the International Association Diamond Fight’s (IADF) debut event in the country was cancelled. IADF: Singapore vs. World was scheduled to take place on Sunday, October 5, at Resorts World Sentosa. But, ac...
It was just one short year ago and things were looking good for Will Chope (20-7). Riding a fourteen-fight win streak, and having just dispatched of former King of Pancrase, Takumi Nakayama, Chope was on deck to make a run in the UFC’s famed octagon. Then it all went away. “Everything was great w...
Singapore is no stranger to large organizations, particularly with the meteoric rise of rival promotions ONE Fighting Championship and REBEL Fighting Championship. But on October 5th, another outfit is set to enter the fray. IADF hits Singapore shores; UFC vet Will Chope, Jean-Claude Van Damme fe...
Herbert Burns (4-0) isn’t getting any younger and the former Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champ is relishing the opportunity for a crack at the ONE FC Featherweight championship. Since linking up with the Singapore-based promotion, Burns has recorded emphatic victories over much experienced opponent...
It’s been a little over a fortnight since UFC Fight Night 48 in Macau delighted the masses but the debate as to whether Royston Wee’s (4-0) win over Yao ZhiKui (1-2) was justifiable continues to surge. News sites, forums and chat rooms have been ransacked by fans and media like a California wildf...
Check out video highlights from REBEL FC 2: Battle Royale which took place at the turn of the month in Singapore. The running order included the start to the promotion’s inaugural Featherweight championship tournament. In one of the brackets, former WEC champ Miguel Torres (43-7) was looking to p...
From a cancelled tourney bout at the weigh-ins to Miguel Torres’ trademark deadpan stare, there was a transcendent energy in the atmosphere heading into REBEL FC 2: Battle Royale on Friday night. The special mood that was brimming down in the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre was un...
The semi-final brackets for REBEL FC’s Featherweight tournament are set after Yojiro Uchimura, Will Chope and Miguel Torres took home victories in their respective bouts at the Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre in Singapore. In the evening’s featured bout, former WEC champ Miguel Torres gar...
It’s hard to deny that REBEL Fighting Championship’s inaugural installment was one of the more delightful events of the 2013 calendar year. The show in Singapore was very well done, with fascinating match-ups that pleased the masses in attendance. We now move on to the promotion’s second event, t...