TOKYO: It became a historical evening in Tokyo, Japan, today, as the stars of ONE: A New Era put on a scintillating show for a packed Ryogoku Kokugikan, also known as Ryogoku Sumo Hall, an indoor sporting arena in the Yokoami neighborhood of Sumida, Tokyo.
Featuring an exciting major event and three special co-predominant occasions, World Titles modified fingers, and martial arts enthusiasts witnessed an absolute spectacle. Anticipation has been driving excessively, in particular amongst his Malaysian lovers. At the same time, it becomes introduced that Malaysia’s very own Mohammed ‘Jordan Boy’ Bin Mahmoud could be provided along with the various excellent names underneath the ONE Championship solid of warriors, as he braced for a conflict towards 2-time Muay Thai World Champion, Panicos Yusuf of Cyprus in a ONE Super Series Bantamweight Muay Thai about in ONE Championship’s inaugural presence inside the Land of the Rising Sun.
Unfortunately, on a night while he seemed to have followed the script to a tee, at the least as a long way as Team Jordan Boy became involved, the ball-movement 22-yr-vintage Malaysian was not able to gain the finishing he so craved after a thrilling three-spherical contest. The two bantamweights traded useful mixtures in the about, but it became the Cypriot athlete who landed the other telling blows. In the give up, all three judges scored the fight in favor of the United Kingdom-primarily based Yusuf to win with unanimous selection.
Despite the disappointing end for Mohammed and his legions of fanatics, the rising Malaysian expertise has vowed to return more potent as he returns to the drafting board in training for what lies past. Meanwhile, inside the night’s different scintillating clashes…
Japanese blended martial arts legend Shinya “Tobikan Judan” Aoki put on a masterful display of grappling dominance. He submitted Filipino icon Eduard “Landslide” Folayang to be crowned the new ONE Lightweight World Champion. Aoki shot in for a single leg after flashing a high kick and positioned Folayang at the mat with a takedown earlier than unexpectedly transitioning into an arm-triangle choke from 1/2 defend. Aoki tightened his squeeze and positioned Folayang to sleep before celebrating the victory in front of his happy place of origin crowd.
Defending ONE Women’s Strawweight World Champion “The Panda” Xiong Jing Nan of China endured her dominant reign over the division, defeating challenger “Unstoppable” Angela Lee of Singapore with the aid of TKO inside the fifth and very last round.
Although the Singaporeans became competitive and had Xiong in some dangerous submission attempts, the champion lights Lee up on their toes the whole time. In the final spherical, Xiong punished Lee with hard kicks to the center and fierce punch combos that pressured the referee to intervene and award Xiong with the stoppage win. Meanwhile, in every other plenty-awaited duel, Myanmar’s Aung La N Sang retained his ONE Middleweight World Championship with a tremendous second-spherical TKO victory over Japan’s Ken Hasegawa.
The remarkable Aung La N Sang became dominant throughout the story, punishing Hasegawa with an arsenal of effective punches and booming kicks. A stiff right directly from Aung La N Sang overdue in the second spherical spelled the beginning of the end for Hasegawa because the protecting champion followed up with ground-and-pound to attain the finish in dominant style.
An unfortunate collection of occasions turned within the ONE Bantamweight World Title conflict between champion Kevin “The Silencer” Belingon of the Philippines and previous titleholder Bibiano “The Flash” Fernandes of Brazil. Inside the motive force’s seat after rounds of motion, Fernandes landed a takedown inside the 0.33 spherical but turned into left, unable to keep after Belingon related on a flurry of unlawful elbows to the return of the top. The Filipino athlete shed a Red Card and was chabecamechanically disqualified as Fernandes turned into, in the end, provided the ONE Bantamweight World Title.
