One Championship is looking to challenge UFC
Fight Pass as a streaming option for feeder leagues to its
organization.
On Thursday night, the Singapore-based company put out a press
release announcing it had begun to sign regional promotions to its
One Super App. On Nov. 28, the first event will take place, as
Russian Cagefighting Championship and Fair Fight Promotion – the
latter a kickboxing league – co-promote an event titled “Road to
One.” The fight card will feature fighters from Russia looking to
score a contract with One, and one such contract will be on the
line at the end of a four-man kickboxing tournament that night.
The event, which sees 26 competitors fight throughout the card in
both MMA and kickboxing matches, will take place in Yekaterinburg,
Russia. The four kickboxers involved are as follows: Vladimir
Kuzmin vs. Maxim Petkevich in one semifinal, and Tamerlan Bashirov
vs. Victor Mikhailov in the other. The one-night featherweight
tournament will be concluded in the main event, which can be seen
both on YouTube and the
One Super App, on Saturday morning.
The “Road to One” series is one that One is running to make local
fighters face off for a crack at a contract, in the same vein as
its One Hero Series and Warrior Series in the past. It also draws
parallels to US-based Dana White’s Contender Series, although One
head Chatri Sityodtong will not likely be present for these
tournaments. The promotion intends on carrying out more of these
co-promoted events, and they will air on One’s app.