Kickboxing and muay thai champ Jonathan
Haggerty is already looking to a new horizon: mixed martial
arts.

One Championship made sure to put one of its
stars on the marquee of
ONE on Prime Video 19, allowing two-sport champion Haggerty
(22-4, 8-2 ONE) to defend his 145-pound muay thai throne.
Aggressive challenger Felipe Lobo
(22-9, 3-2 ONE) was not remotely afraid of the man with the hefty
gold belt, and gave Haggerty everything he had for two-plus rounds
until Haggerty found the finishing blow in the form of a
devastating right hand.

As Haggerty calmly fired off body kicks from a safe distance in the
early going, Lobo grew tired of absorbing the blows and crashed the
pocket with fiery fists. The Brazilian laid into the champ with a
lengthy surge of punches, stringing body shots into more to the
head until he sat Haggerty down on his seat on the low ropes,
officially ruled a knockdown by referee Olivier Coste. Haggerty
made it to the second round, and once that bell sounded, he flipped
the switch. The Brit turned the tides by blasting Lobo with a long
chain of unanswered blows, putting Lobo on the proverbial ropes
until he drilled Lobo with a left hook that put the challenger
down. With 90 seconds left in the round, Haggerty did not want to
let his man off the hook, chasing him down with everything he had,
including several spinning elbows. Just when Lobo seemed out of it,
he surged into action, with momentum shifts on full display as the
two fought tooth-and-nail through the wild second round.

A fearless Lobo exited his corner, pointing at the champion to open
the third round, but he soon realized his cardio reserves did not
match his ambitions. The relatively composed Haggerty kept Lobo at
bay, absorbing a few leg kicks but coming out none the worse. As
Lobo measured up, the champion intercepted him with a right hand
from the depths of Hades. Lobo hit the ground on his seat, and as
he turned over in hopes of standing, his legs completely betrayed
him. Seeing the lights were on, but no one was home, Coste waved
off the fight 45 seconds into Round 3, and a feeble protest from
Lobo was soon abandoned when he struggled to stand without toppling
over.

Haggerty jokingly suggested renaming himself from “The General” to
“The Bonus Boy” after earning another $50,000 post-fight check from
the promotion. Ever looking ahead, the Brit pitched an idea where
he would switch over to MMA to try to win the title from former foe
Fabricio
Andrade.



The co-main attraction brought together a muay thai rematch from
December at 145 pounds, as undefeated Algerian Mohamed
Younes Rabah (13-1, 1-1 ONE) stunned Saemapetch
Fairtex (127-20-1, 9-5 ONE) with a first-round stoppage in that
meeting. Right from the opening bell, it was clear that this result
would not be duplicated. The shorter Saemapetch found his range in
a hurry and charged towards Rabah, dropping his foe with a
blistering left hand and catching him on the way down with a
borderline soccer kick not called by referee Coste.

Rabah beat the count, only to get sent back down to the mat seconds
later courtesy of a powerful one-two from the Thai. Although Rabah
recovered a second time, he was never back in the fight, scarcely
throwing anything back the other direction. Saemapetch was a man
possessed,
stalking Rabah down until he clubbed his man with a lengthy
combination that shook the unbeaten fighter to his
core. Rabah tried to clinch up to save himself and
stay on his feet, but Saemapetch disengaged as Rabah collapsed to
the mat on his face. Coste called off the one-sided drubbing at 93
seconds of the opening stanza, awarding the Fairtex representative
sweet revenge while handing Rabah his first defeat.

The 127th win of Saemapetch’s lengthy career proved especially
lucrative, as he earned a post-fight bonus check for $50,000.

Earlier on the main card, the heavy hands and effective wrestling
from Lito
Adiwang (16-5, 10-3 ONE) made the difference against Danial
Williams (6-3, 3-5 ONE) after three hard-fought rounds. Less
than 90 seconds in, the 125-pound Adiwang displayed the power his
mullet granted him by sending Williams crashing to the canvas with
a fierce right hand. Plenty of overswinging and subsequent looping
strikes from Adiwang allowed him to shut down his opponent, and the
chin of “Thunder Kid” absorbed a ferocious knee with seconds left
in the fight to reach the final bell. Adiwang is now in rarified
air with the victory, having prevailed 10 times with the promotion
since making his way to ONE Championship through its Warrior Series
in 2018 and 2019.

Nauzet
Trujillo (49-10, 1-1 ONE) pulled off the biggest betting upset
of the evening as a nearly +300 underdog against Britain’s Liam Nolan
(22-8, 4-4 ONE). Trujillo started slow in their 170-pound muay thai
clash but grew in momentum and confidence to sway all three judges
in his favor. The Spaniard floored his taller opponent with a
tomahawk elbow early into the second round, smashing Nolan’s nose
and drawing blood. Trujillo celebrated the first win of his ONE
tenure with a unanimous verdict over the 26-year-old nicknamed
“Lethal.”



In preliminary action, Hiroyuki
Tetsuka (13-4, 5-1 ONE)
snatched up a textbook armbar of Abraao
Amorim (9-5, 1-2 ONE) at 4:57 of Round 1 of their 185-pound
affair; Luke Lessei
(7-1, 1-1 ONE) escaped by the skin of his teeth with a split
decision win over Eddie
Abasolo (14-6, 1-3 ONE) after a bloody 155-pound all-American
muay thai rumble; late replacement Martyna
Kierczynska (5-0, 1-0 ONE) made the most of her opportunity by
bulldozing “Wondergirl” Nat
Jaroonsak (35-18-2, 3-4 ONE) with a
relentless barrage of $50,000-earning strikes 1:24
into the second round of their 125-pound muay thai encounter;
Mansur
Malachiev (12-1, 2-1 ONE) outworked former 125-pound champ
Yosuke
Saruta (21-12-3, 3-4 ONE) to pick up the nod on all three
scorecards; the card kicked off in style with a 125-pound muay thai
banger as Thongpoon
PK Saenchai (79-24, 1 NC; 4-0, 1 NC ONE) dropped Timur
Chuikov (11-5, 0-1 ONE)
three times in 97 seconds en route to a technical
knockout and a $50,000 bonus check.

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