ONE Championship is in contrast to any martial arts group you’ve ever watched. The Asian large celebrates the whole spectrum of martial arts disciplines at its occasions.
With the group’s fresh blockbuster take care of international streaming platform Amazon High Video, lovers in the US and Canada will be capable to witness martial arts in its complete glory at primetime, starting this August with ONE on High Video 1.
No longer simplest does ONE exhibit sports activities like Muay Thai, kickboxing, submission grappling, and MMA at its occasions, however the promotion additionally makes it some extent to signal absolutely the greatest names and top-tier skill to its burgeoning roster.
With that during thoughts, let’s take a look at the most productive ONE Championship combatants in each and every of the respective sports activities.
Rodtang Jitmuangnon – Muay Thai
Rodtang Jitmuangnon. [Photo ONE Championship]
ONE Championship has essentially the most elite roster of Muay Thai combatants on the earth, complete forestall.
With legends like Nong-O Gaiyanghadao, Sam-A Gaiyanghadao, and Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke gracing the circle along emerging stars like Saemapetch Fairtex and Tawanchai PK.Saenchai, the motion is all the time speedy and intense.
Arguably its greatest megastar in ‘the artwork of 8 limbs’ is none rather then 25-year-old phenom Rodtang ‘The Iron Guy’ Jitmuangnon.
Rodtang is understood for his unbelievable toughness and superior energy, which is all the time on complete show on every occasion he steps within the circle. This previous March at ONE X, Rodtang was once increased to superstardom when he took on MMA legend Demetrious ‘Mighty Mouse’ Johnson in a special-rules matchup.
If ‘The Iron Guy’ wins the ONE Flyweight Muay Thai Global Grand Prix, of which he’s a player, the reigning ONE flyweight Muay Thai global champion says he’s going to make a complete transition to MMA. Fanatics are indisputably excited for that prospect.
Superbon Singha Mawynn – Kickboxing
Superbon Singha Mawynn. [Photo ONE Championship]
Very similar to Muay Thai, ONE Championship’s kickboxing roster is affected by the best names within the game. Giorgio Petrosyan, Regian Eersel, Ilias Ennahachi, Roman Kryklia, Hiroki Akimoto, Capitan Petchyindee are simply one of the most best possible abilities within the promotion.
There may be, then again, one guy who no longer simplest personifies the game, however did what was once deemed inconceivable. That guy is Superbon Singha Mawynn.
A protege of the mythical Buakaw, Superbon was once catapulted into his personal folklore when he knocked out Petrosyan to turn out to be the ONE featherweight kickboxing global champion at ONE: First Strike in October 2021.
Superbon then proved that his victory over Petrosyan, who is considered the best kickboxer of all time, was once no fluke when he beat Marat Grigorian at ONE X in his first global name protection.
Whilst it didn’t result in a knockout, Superbon nonetheless placed on a hanging medical institution in opposition to the similarly bad Grigorian in a win that additional solidified his legacy within the game.
Marcus ‘Buchecha’ Almeida – Submission grappling
Marcus ‘Buchecha’ Almeida
Successful a global name is already a frightening activity, however taking pictures 17 is solely ridiculous. Smartly, for Marcus ‘Buchecha’ Almeida, that mark is solely a regular segment of his resume. He’s, in the end, regarded as by way of many to be essentially the most achieved grappler of all time.
ONE Championship has a litany of elite Brazilian jiu-jitsu artists in Garry Tonon, Andre Galvao, Mikey Musumeci, and emerging stars Danielle Kelly and the Ruotolo twins, Tye and Kade. But none of them have the similar unbelievable place within the grappling arts as Almeida.
The Brazilian heavyweight was once a monster at the mats, incomes global titles on the ADCC, BJJ global championships, IBJJF, and Global Cup, to call only some.
Already proving that he’s near-invincible in BJJ, ‘Buchecha’ made the bounce to MMA, the place he holds a 3-0 document. All 3 of the ones wins got here by means of finishes.
‘Buchecha’ may be regarded as some of the height global name threats within the heavyweight MMA department, with each Anatoly Malykhin and Arjan Bhullar, the ONE period in-between heavyweight global champion and ONE heavyweight global champion, respectively, intently gazing his building.
Reinier de Ridder – Males’s MMA
Reinier de Ridder. [Photo ONE Championship]
Who higher to place as the most productive male blended martial artist in ONE Championship than the Dutch world-ender himself, Reinier de Ridder?
Global champions Adriano Moraes, Kiamrian Abbasov, Anatoly Malykhin, Arjan Bhullar, Adequate Rae Yoon, Thanh Le, John Lineker, and Joshua Pacio are all becoming to be referred to as the most productive within the promotion. De Ridder, then again, actually stands a head over them.
‘The Dutch Knight’ is the one two-division global champion in ONE Championship, retaining each the middleweight and light-weight heavyweight global championships. The 6-foot-4 fighter from Breda, Netherlands beat Burmese legend Aung Los angeles N Sang two times to get sole possession of the 2 global titles.
Whilst his global name victories are already spectacular, his two a success defenses of the middleweight crown have been similarly spectacular.
De Ridder scored a third-round submission over Abbasov, the ONE welterweight global champion, for his first global name protection at ONE: Complete Circle this previous February. His 2nd global name protection noticed him pull off arguably the most productive submission of 2022.
Vitaly Bigdash, the previous ONE middleweight global champion, fought de Ridder for the crown however that problem was once a brief one. Reinier de Ridder used his otherworldly grappling to subdue Bigdash, in the end locking in an inverted triangle choke for the first-round submission win at ONE 159.
Angela Lee – Ladies’s MMA
Angela Lee. [Photo ONE Championship]
There can simplest be one queen in ONE Championship’s MMA scene, and that lady is ‘Unstoppable’ Angela Lee.
The Singaporean-American famous person is the real personification of her nickname, having racked up a staggering 11-0 document within the girls’s atomweight department.
It may be argued that ONE girls’s strawweight global champion Xiong Jing Nan may be deserving to be in this record, and he or she is. On the other hand, Lee has her beat relating to fights and warring parties.
The 2 girls’s global champions also are 1-1 of their contention, with a 3rd global name battle all the time looming at the horizon. Nonetheless, the respect of being the most productive girls’s MMA fighter within the group belongs to Lee.
The atomweight queen has overwhelmed the likes of Xiong, Mei Yamaguchi, Jenny Huang, Istela Nunes and, maximum just lately, Stamp Fairtex at ONE X.
Combating for the 1st time since 2019 and after giving delivery to her daughter Ava Marie, Lee confirmed lovers why she is actually unstoppable. After weathering Stamp’s early hanging, Lee went for the kill in the second one around, filing the Thai megastar with a rear-naked choke.