{"id":181289,"date":"2016-01-01T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=181289"},"modified":"2018-02-24T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T05:07:56","slug":"one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: &#8216;All our athletes will move up a weight class&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With ONE Championship&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/one-championship-will-begin-game-changing-weigh-in-procedures-starting-in-2016-and-asks-ufc-to-follow-suit-2\/\">weigh-in system<\/a> set to take place in 2016, the weight class the fighters have been competing in will be taking a big change. Victor Cui, CEO of the promotion recently appeared on Fox Sports Asia to address the changes that could have a dramatic effect on the landscape of MMA.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/one-championship-fighters-move-division-weight-cut-ban-203235619--mma.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo! Sports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s really quite simple, all our athletes will move up a weight class together and in unison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ONE Championship head honcho also made it clear that the existing titleholders would not be stripped of their belts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll champions will retain their titles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cui confirmed that this means reigning bantamweight champion Bibiano Fernandes will become the 145-pound champion. Therefore, Dedamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke will be titleholder at 125 pounds, Kairat Akhmetov at 135 pounds, Marat Gafurov at 155 pounds, Shinya Aoki at 170 pounds, Ben Askren at 185 pounds, and Vitaly Bigdash at 205 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>One issue not addressed during the broadcast is what will happen to the 205-pound division, which currently doesn\u2019t have a champion. Fighters like Jake Butler, Roger Gracie and Cristiano Kaminishi, who normally fight at 205 pounds, could find themselves competing as heavyweights unless ONE Championship takes the unprecedented step of adding a new weight class between 205 and 265 pounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cui says that he hopes the other promotions will join in implementing the new system to promote a more <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/joe-rogan-believes-that-cutting-weight-for-fights-is-cheating\/\">safe and healthy<\/a> way for fighters to compete. Do you think the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/watch-lorenzo-fertitta-says-ufc-will-bring-in-over-half-a-billion-dollars-in-2015\/\">UFC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/scott-coker-breaks-down-his-first-year-as-bellator-boss1\/\">Bellator<\/a> will join in? Share your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With ONE Championship&#8217;s new weigh-in system set to take place in 2016, the weight class the fighters have been competing in will be taking a big change. Victor Cui, CEO of the promotion recently appeared on Fox Sports Asia to address the changes that could have a dramatic effect on the landscape of MMA. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":175655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,19776],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: &#039;All our athletes will move up a weight class&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: &#039;All our athletes will move up a weight class&#039; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With ONE Championship&#8217;s new weigh-in system set to take place in 2016, the weight class the fighters have been competing in will be taking a big change. Victor Cui, CEO of the promotion recently appeared on Fox Sports Asia to address the changes that could have a dramatic effect on the landscape of MMA. From [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"| BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-01-01T19:49:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-02-25T05:07:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ben-Askren-Luis-Santos.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"730\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"380\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Russell Ess\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Russell Ess\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Russell Ess\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/38bb728c4095a34ce673601d63c55be3\"},\"headline\":\"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: &#8216;All our athletes will move up a weight class&#8217;\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-01T19:49:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-02-25T05:07:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/\"},\"wordCount\":260,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Bellator\",\"ONE Championship\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2016\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/\",\"name\":\"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: 'All our athletes will move up a weight class' | BJPenn.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-01T19:49:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-02-25T05:07:56+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"MMA News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Bellator\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: &#8216;All our athletes will move up a weight class&#8217;\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"description\":\"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":148,\"caption\":\"| BJPenn.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/38bb728c4095a34ce673601d63c55be3\",\"name\":\"Russell Ess\",\"description\":\"Bringing you the latest buzzing fight news and entertaining fight related tidbits.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/BJPENN.COM\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/russel-saito\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: 'All our athletes will move up a weight class' | BJPenn.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: 'All our athletes will move up a weight class' | BJPenn.com","og_description":"With ONE Championship&#8217;s new weigh-in system set to take place in 2016, the weight class the fighters have been competing in will be taking a big change. Victor Cui, CEO of the promotion recently appeared on Fox Sports Asia to address the changes that could have a dramatic effect on the landscape of MMA. From [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/","og_site_name":"| BJPenn.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","article_published_time":"2016-01-01T19:49:06+00:00","article_modified_time":"2018-02-25T05:07:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":730,"height":380,"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ben-Askren-Luis-Santos.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Russell Ess","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_site":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Russell Ess","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/"},"author":{"name":"Russell Ess","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/38bb728c4095a34ce673601d63c55be3"},"headline":"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: &#8216;All our athletes will move up a weight class&#8217;","datePublished":"2016-01-01T19:49:06+00:00","dateModified":"2018-02-25T05:07:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/"},"wordCount":260,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Bellator","ONE Championship"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2016","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/","name":"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: 'All our athletes will move up a weight class' | BJPenn.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-01-01T19:49:06+00:00","dateModified":"2018-02-25T05:07:56+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/one-championship-ceo-victor-cui-all-our-athletes-will-move-up-a-weight-class\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"MMA News","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Bellator","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui: &#8216;All our athletes will move up a weight class&#8217;"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","name":"| BJPenn.com","description":"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization","name":"| BJPenn.com","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","width":600,"height":148,"caption":"| BJPenn.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/38bb728c4095a34ce673601d63c55be3","name":"Russell Ess","description":"Bringing you the latest buzzing fight news and entertaining fight related tidbits.","sameAs":["http:\/\/BJPENN.COM"],"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/russel-saito\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}