The internationally renowned sports IP-ONE Championship will be held on January 14, 2021 as a large-scale fighting event "ONE: Strike Hard". The lineup for the opening game of 2022 is very luxurious, and the headline main match is led by Xiong Jingnan, the grassweight world champion from China, who will play her sixth world championship defense battle that night.
In "ONE: Heroes of the Towel" on September 3 this year, Xiong Jingnan defeated Michelle Nicolini, known as the "strongest woman in jiu-jitsu", to complete his fifth world championship defense battle, setting a record for the most times the women's world champion in the ONE Championship. If he successfully defends his title again, Xiong Jingnan will break the history he has created and become the strongest female champion in the history of the ONE Championship.
However, the victory of the championship defense battle is by no means within reach, and this time Xiong Jingnan will face the challenger Ayaka Miura from Japan. Miura is currently in fourth place in the grassweight, having lost to Tiffany Teo, who is currently in first place, the only match she has lost since 2018.
Miura's professional record is 11 wins and 3 losses, of which 7 finishes are all surrender opponents, and the surrender rate is as high as 64%. In May, she defeated Brazil's rayane Bastos, who was previously unbeaten, in just one round. Yes, this time Xiong Jingnan's challenger is another master of the fighting system.
Born in boxing, Xiong Jingnan is hardly matched in the field of standing strikes, and the only match she has lost in the ONE Championship is in the second match with Angela Lee. However, Xiong Jingnan is naturally aware of her strengths and weaknesses, she has been practicing anti-fall and jiu-jitsu techniques before the last game, and in the match with Michelle Niccolini, Xiong Jingnan has controlled most of the game time in a standing state, which also helped her win the game easily.
Miura does not have the same strong jiu-jitsu skills as Nicolini, but her comprehensive ability is stronger, and her wrestling skills are more prominent. Even the most exquisite jiu-jitsu technique needs to start from entering the ground, so Miura Saika may be a more threatening opponent than Niccolini.
At present, the gold belt on Xiong Jingnan's body is the only world championship gold belt in the whole of Chinese martial arts, can Xiong Jingnan create history again and save the last supreme honor for Chinese martial arts? On January 14, 2021, let's wait and see.