Headlined by three ONE World Title
showdowns, we close out 2023 with a BANGER đź‘‘ Tune in on December 22
for ONE Friday Fights 46 — the most stacked edition in history!
đź‘Šđź’Ą#ONEFridayFights46
| Fri Dec 22
🌍 Global PPV on https://t.co/eBUfsOmxDL | 9:30PM
ICT/9:30AM ET
🌍 Check… pic.twitter.com/3lkDaiWtiD— ONE Championship (@ONEChampionship)
December 15, 2023
One Championship is testing the waters of a
pay-per-view model next week.
According to a release from the promotion on Friday,
ONE Friday Fights 46, which will be held on Dec. 22 at the
Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, will be a pay-per-view event.
The entire card will consist of muay thai or kickboxing matches,
without the early preliminaries containing an MMA bout or two. The
price of the event will be $39.99, or $33.99 if ordered before
event day. Three belts will be on the line on the five-fight main
card, with the headliner for the 155-pound muay thai strap between
Tawanchai P.K. Saenchaimuaythaigym and Superbon
Singha Mawynn.
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Tawanchai, 24, first won the ONE muay thai featherweight belt when
he defeated Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy at ONE 161 in 2022.
Since then, he has successfully defended it once against Jamal
Yusupov in February, while taking two non-title tilts against
Davit
Kiria and Jo
Nattawut—winning both. His foe Superbon joined the organization
not as a muay thai fighter but as a kickboxer, and he claimed the
155-pound kickboxing championship by starching Giorgio
Petrosyan in 2021. Superbon went on to defend it a single time
before losing it to Chingiz
Allazov in January, and this foray for the title will be his
first muay thai matchup in the promotion.
In addition to Tawanchai vs. Superbon, ONE is staging a muay thai
title unification bout between champion Joseph
Lasiri and interim beltholder Prajanchai
P.K. Saenchai. The two will tangle at 125 pounds for the
promotion’s undisputed strawweight muay thai crown. They have met
once before, with Lasiri getting the better of his foe and forcing
Prajanchai to retire at the end of Round 3 for that title. When
Lasiri moved up to 135 pounds to challenge for another throne, the
former champ Prajanchai picked up interim gold against Sam-A
Gaiyanghadao in June, flattening the 40-year-old grizzled vet
with a vicious elbow.
The last of three gold belts on the line at this event will come at
115 pounds, in an interim kickboxing variety. With Janet Todd
testing her might in the muay thai sphere, Phetjeeja
OrMeekhun and Anissa
Meksen will vie for the interim belt. The Thai has won 12
straight, including four in the ONE ring, while racking up 11
stoppages on the way. Most recently she slashed up Celest Hansen in
October to pick up the third-round finish. Meksen, since
introducing herself to the promotion in 2021, has not lost either.
Her total win streak sits at four—although her last loss came
against pound-for-pound talent Tiffany
Van Soest to settle their trilogy—and three of those have come
under the ONE banner. This will be the Frenchwoman’s first bout in
2023, having last competed against Dangkongfah Banchamek in October
2022, where she won on all three scorecards.
ONE Friday Fights 46 Lineup:
Tawanchai
P.K. Saenchaimuaythaigym vs. Superbon
Singha Mawynn – 145-pound muay thai championship
Joseph
Lasiri vs. Prajanchai
P.K. Saenchai – 125-pound muay thai title unification
Anissa
Meksen vs. Phetjeeja
OrMeekhun – 115-pound interim kickboxing championship
Nong-O
Hama vs. Nico
Carrillo – 145-pound muay thai
Seksan
Or Kwanmuang vs. River Daz –
140-pound muay thai
Muangthai P.K. Saenchai vs. Nabil Anane
– 136-pound muay thai
Kulabdam Sor Jor Piek Uthai vs. Fariyar Aminipour – 145-pound muay
thai
Jaosuayai “Black
Panther” Sor Dechapan vs. Petsukumvit
Boi Bangna – 135-pound muay thai
Suablack Tor Pran49 vs. Craig Coakley – 145-pound muay thai
Eisaku Ogasawara vs. Chorfah
Tor Sangtiennoi – 132-pound muay thai
Suriyanlek
Por Yenying vs. Yodkritsada Sor Sommai – 132-pound muay thai