At a joint press conference Wednesday, representatives of One Championship and Amazon unveiled the
promotion’s new exclusive streaming agreement with Prime Video,
including a schedule of planned events.
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The first of those events,
One on Prime Video 1, will take place Aug. 26 at Singapore
Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Among the bouts announced for
the debut card is a headliner featuring One flyweight champion
Adriano
Moraes, defending his belt against the man he defeated last
year to win it, former longtime Ultimate Fighting Championship titleholder
Demetrious
Johnson. Moraes and Johnson were among the One Championship
athletes present at the press conference, which also included
atomweight champ Angela Lee,
flyweight kickboxing champ Jonathan
Haggerty and heavyweight contender Marcus
Almeida.
“As the new, exclusive home of One Championship across the U.S. and
Canada, we are thrilled to bring these unique, multidisciplinary
events to fans,” said Marie Donoghue, vice president of global
sports video at Amazon. “Martial arts fans are incredibly
passionate and engaged, and we look forward to providing them with
the best in combat sports as One Championship makes its prime-time
debut on Prime Video this fall.”
Speaking for the promotion, One Championship vice president
Rich
Franklin called the move to bring One’s martial arts events to
the approximately 200 million Prime Video subscribers in North
America “a no-brainer.” Franklin also announced the Singapore-based
organization’s plans to put on North American events at least
quarterly, with those shows to be featured on Prime Video.