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December 31, 2021
A whopping 12 fights have been booked for the live Jan. 28 One Championship show.
The organization
announced the headliner of its
“Only the Brave” event on Jan. 28 on Monday, and the remainder
of the fight card was filled out by One Championship on Friday.
Officially capping off the event will be an interim heavyweight
championship clash between Anatoliy
Malykhin and Kirill
Grishenko, as One is reportedly encountering contract issues
with heavyweight king Arjan
Singh Bhullar.
Eleven additional bouts have been booked for this Singapore-based
card, including the semifinals of One’s 155-pound kickboxing grand
prix. The fights will be split into two portions, with the main
card featuring the title fight, two semifinals, two MMA matches and
a kickboxing bout. The “Lead Card” preliminaries will include an
alternate to the kickboxing tourney, four MMA tilts and a women’s
muay Thai affair at a 128-pound catchweight.
The co-main attraction will see Jae Woong
Kim (12-5) come to blows with Kai Tang
(13-2) at One’s featherweight division (155 pounds). Both are
ranked within the top five of One’s rankings, and they will be
meeting on win streaks. Known as “The Fighting God,” Kim dispatched
Tetsuya
Yamada at the end of 2020 and Martin
Nguyen in September coming into this pairing. China’s Tang has
seen his last eight outings go his way, including six by knockout
within two rounds.
With the quarterfinals of One’s featherweight kickboxing grand prix
out of the way, the semifinals as well as an alternate will be
placed on this showcase. Jo Nattawut and Dovydas
Rimkus will square off on the prelims in hopes of serving as an
alternate should something go awry in the tournament. The
semifinals themselves consist of Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong vs.
Davit Kiria, and Marat Grigorian vs. Chingiz Allazov.
One Championship “Only the Brave” Lineup:
Anatoliy
Malykhin vs. Kirill
Grishenko – heavyweight MMA interim title
Jae
Woong Kim vs. Kai Tang –
155-pound MMA
Marat Grigorian vs. Chingiz Allazov – 155-pound kickboxing
semifinal
Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong vs. Davit Kiria – 155-pound kickboxing
semifinal
Ruslan
Emilbek Uulu vs. Lipeng
Zhang – 170-pound MMA
Rade Opacic vs. Francesko Xhaja – heavyweight kickboxing
Koha
Minowa vs. Jarred
Brooks – 125-pound MMA
Jo Nattawut vs. Dovydas
Rimkus – 155-pound kickboxing alternate
Tatsumitsu
Wada vs. Shuo Wang –
135-pound MMA
Hiroyuki
Tetsuka vs. Zebaztian
Kadestam – 185-pound MMA
Anderson
Silva vs. Paul
Elliott – heavyweight MMA
Diandra Martin vs. Smilla Sundell – 128-pound muay Thai