ONE
Championship three-division title holder Anatoly
Malykhin will defend his heavyweight crown against Oumar Kane
when the promotion heads to Atlanta on Nov. 8.
ONE announced the main event booking in a release on Wednesday.
ONE
Championship 169 takes place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta
and marks the organization’s second trip to the United States in
2024. In the evening’s co-headliner, Tawanchai PK Saenchai will
defend his featherweight (155-pound) muay thai belt against Joe
Nattawut. The card will air live on Prime Video in the United
States.
Malykhin is coming off a third-round technical knockout victory
against Reinier
de Ridder to claim the middleweight (205-pound) title at ONE
166 on March 1. The 36-year-old Russian owns a 14-0 professional
mark — which includes six victories under the ONE banner. He
captured heavyweight gold with a third-round stoppage of UFC
veteran Arjan
Singh Bhullar in June 2023.
A native of Senegal who is commonly known as “Reug Reug,” Kane has
been victorious in six of his seven professional MMA appearances.
He will take a three-bout winning streak into the matchup with
Malykhin, with successive triumphs over Batradz
Gazzaev, Jasur
Mirzamukhamedov and Marcus
Almeida to his credit.