One Championship is going for broke in Hotlanta
this November.

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Atop
ONE 169 in Atlanta on Nov. 8, three championship affairs will
sit on the marquee. The main attraction at the State Farm Arena is
already released, in a battle for the heavyweight throne between
champ Anatoly
Malykhin and “Reug Reug” Oumar Kane.
The co-main event, first reported by
MMA Fighting on Friday and subsequently confirmed
by the promotion, will put the 170-pound strap up for grabs between
two-division beltholder Christian
Lee (17-4) and interim champ Alibeg
Rasulov (15-0). Additionally, Tawanchai
P.K. Saenchai and Nattawut
Somkhun will settle things in a trilogy match for the 155-pound
muay thai crown, per a release from ONE.

Lee, who holds gold at 170 and 185 pounds in the promotion, last
appeared in November 2022, where he claimed the vacant 185-pound
title against Kiamrian
Abbasov after champ Abbasov missed weight. In doing so, Lee
became one of a small number of two-division champions in ONE
history. „The Warrior“ earned his 170-pound belt back in a rematch
with Rae Yoon Ok
the fight before, as the South Korean snagged it from him in
September 2021. The Hawaiian local took time away from the sport
after the death of sister Victoria
Lee at the beginning of January 2023, and he decided to come
back to defend his thrones.

Gorets Fight Club product Rasulov introduced himself to the ONE
Championship brass in July when he outworked Ok over five grueling
rounds in July. Rasulov made his way to the organization by
bouncing around various leagues in Russia and Turkey, picking up 10
finishes across his 14 wins to get there.

Born Narongsak Kaewmala, Tawanchai has met Nattawut on two previous
occasions, once in kickboxing and the second in muay thai. Their
first matchup came in a nine-minute affair on ONE on Prime 15 in
2023, where Tawanchai earned a close unanimous decision nod. The
rematch came for Tawanchai’s 155-pound muay thai title in June, and
the two battled it out for five hard rounds. Tawanchai ultimately
picked up a razor-close majority decision call, and the two are
running it back once more for that gold.

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