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EXCLUSIVE | Aung La N Sang is grateful ONE Championship places value on respect, sportsmanship
Over the last few years, trash talk and bravado have become a huge part of the sport of mixed martial arts. The bushido spirit has been mostly pushed aside and replaced by constant posturing and saber-rattling. Singapore’s ONE Championship is working on changing that. Where other promotions encourage trash talk and showmanship, ONE Championship preaches […]
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Aung La N Sang: Myanmar’s new beacon of hope and unity
It is instinctive for people to look for someone to idolize, look up to and imitate. Someone from whom they draw strength and inspiration from, to go on with their lives towards where they want to go and what they want to be. This is the reason why people look up to the rich and […]
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EXCLUSIVE | Team Lakay’s Kevin Belingon plans to take care of business in Singapore
Filipino spitfire Kevin “The Silencer” Belingon is getting the opponent that he has wanted for a very long time, as he is booked to lock horns with Bibiano “The Flash” Fernandes in a highly-anticipated bantamweight title unification bout at ONE: HEART OF THE LION, set for the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 9 November. Belingon and […]
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EXCLUSIVE | Two-weight ONE champion Martin Nguyen discusses his dream fights
Martin Nguyen, who owns the ONE lightweight and featherweight titles, is currently scheduled for an interim bantamweight title fight with Kevin “The Silencer” Belingon on July 27 in Manila. If he wins this bout with Belingon, he’ll be the owner of a whopping three ONE titles — but don’t expect him to rest on his laurels. Nguyen […]
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EXCLUSIVE | Bibiano Fernandes not impressed by two-division champ Martin Nguyen: I’ve faced better
This weekend, in the main event of ONE: IRON WILL, bantamweight champion Bibiano Fernandes will attempt to defend his title against Martin Nguyen – who happens to own the ONE lightweight and featherweight belts. While the two-division champion Nguyen has a significant amount of hype behind him – and rightly so – Fernandes doesn’t feel […]
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EXCLUSIVE | Garry Tonon not motivated by money ahead of MMA debut
This weekend, BJJ ace Garry Tonon will make his anticipated MMA debut, as he’s set to battle Richard Corminal at ONE:IRON WILL. While “The Lion Killer’s” move to MMA might look like a scheme to make more money in a more mainstream sport, this actually isn’t his main motivator. “Obviously money’s awesome,” Tonon said on […]
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EXCLUSIVE | Martin Nguyen explains how he’ll defend 3 ONE Championship titles if he defeats Bibiano Fernandes
As the owner of ONE Championship’s lightweight and featherweight titles, Martin Nguyen is already a two-division champion. For the man they call “The Situ-Asian,” however, two titles is simply not enough. This weekend, when ONE returns to the sun-soaked Thai capital of Bangkok with ONE: IRON WILL, Nguyen will vie for a third title, as […]
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Ben Askren breaks down retirement bout with “legend of the sport” Shinya Aoki
Shortly after his destruction of Zebaztian Kadestam at last weekend’s ONE Championship: Shanghai event, it was announced that Ben Askren’s next fight would be his last. His opponent in this November 24 retirement fight, it was revealed, would be Japanese lightweight veteran Shinya Aoki, who stands out as one of the finest submission players in MMA […]