{"id":291278,"date":"2018-11-13T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=291278"},"modified":"2018-11-13T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T16:41:09","slug":"one-championship-gets-grand-prix-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/one-championship-gets-grand-prix-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE Championship gets Grand Prix fever"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is something about a Grand Prix tournament that gets the pulse of every mixed martial arts fan racing. So it came as no surprise that when ONE Championship <\/span>announced<\/span><\/a> it would be holding not one but two Grands Prix in 2019, the news spread like wildfire across the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n

These eight-man tournaments will take place in two of the most stacked divisions in the promotion: lightweight and flyweight.<\/span>They will run throughout the year and the winners will walk out of the cage with the prefix ONE World Champion attached to their name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recent star signings <\/span>Eddie \u201cThe Underground King\u201d Alvarez<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Demetrious \u201cMighty Mouse\u201d Johnson <\/span><\/a>will appear in their respective divisions of lightweight and flyweight.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that they have announced a world grand prix for the flyweight division \u2013 it\u2019s always been a dream of mine to compete in Asia in a grand prix,\u201d Johnson said at a recent press conference in Singapore.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI know the flyweight division here \u2013<\/span> Geje<\/span> [Eustaquio],\u00a0<\/span>Kairat <\/span><\/a>[Akhmetov], [Danny] <\/span>Kingad<\/span>, and Adriano Moraes, those guys are tough, but I\u2019m looking to face those guys.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a certain sense of heightened drama that is associated with a tournament, but adding ONE\u2019s newest recruits to the mix will send fans into a state of happy delirium.\u00a0<\/span>Who wouldn’t want to see Alvarez, one of of the top lightweights of his generation taking on the young Dagestani lion <\/span>Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev?\u00a0<\/span>That is the beauty of a Grand Prix, it can throw up the most unlikely of matchups.\u00a0<\/span>This time next year we could be talking about 12-time world champion, Johnson, getting ready to face off with Australian <\/span>Reece McLaren<\/span>, or McLaren preparing for Kingad.<\/span><\/p>\n

For fans, half the fun of a Grand Prix tournament is not knowing who is going to face who. It’s the perfect mixed martial arts mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n

The complete line-up of participating athletes has not be finalized just yet, and there is still the ONE Lightweight World Title bout taking place at <\/span>ONE: CONQUEST OF CHAMPIONS<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>It has not yet been announced whether the winner out of this Amir Khan and Eduard Folayang title bout will have a spot in the Lightweight tournament but for fans that is a question for another day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fine print of the tournament will reveal itself in due course. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now is the time for fans to soak up the recent news and just enjoy the fact that, once again, ONE Championship has a found a way to surprise us all.\u00a0<\/span>2019 is just around the corner and it’s shaping up to be a blockbuster of a year for the promotion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 11\/13\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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