In 2021, countless highlights were staged in the ring of the international fighting event ONE Championship, and the world's top fighters performed brilliantly in the year. With 2 days to go until the new year of 2022, let's look back at the five wonderful moments of the YEAR ONE Championship to commemorate the unforgettable year of 2021.
Ranked fifth in the top five exciting moments of 2021
Dagi Arslanaliev
WHO
Timofey Nastyukhin
On December 3, "ONE: Winter God of War" staged a competition that perfectly interpreted the "aesthetics of violence" in the fighting sport. The two sides are Timofey Nastusidkin and Dagy Aslanf, who are fifth in the lightweight ranking. Both are masters of blows with one-hit kill ability, which is a duel that is doomed to be impossible to beat and judge.
The two men entered a high-frequency confrontation at the beginning of the game, and before the first round was over, Nastusickin had already broken his cheek and stained the cage with blood. In the following matches, Nastusickin was hit several times, but he often recovered quickly and counterattacked in a stumbling situation. It wasn't until the third leg, when Aslanf hit two backhand punches, that Nastusikon was no longer able to get up, that the referee terminated the match, and Aslanf TKO won.
The game is all a clash of tough guys, every second of the game is likely to end, no matter what kind of desperate situation the players fall into, there is no passive defense, but a quick counterattack. This duel fully demonstrated the indomitable and courageous fighting spirit.
Ranked fourth in the top five highlights of 2021
Tang Kai
Yoon Chang Min
In the "ONE: Renewal II" broadcast on November 12, China's Tang Kai welcomed South Korea's strong rival Yin Changmin. Both are young players with full potential, and this battle is also an important battle to hit the world's top five rankings.
In the game, Tang Kai did not rush to attack because of his desire to win, he played steadily and steadily, not only preventing all of Yin Changmin's falls, but also the quality of the attack was also very high. After a short period of testing, Tang Kai was already in the chest, and the precise heavy punch posed a considerable threat to Yin Changmin, and just one minute left in the first round, Tang Kai's fronthand swing punch accurately hit the opponent's chin and knocked it down, and the referee terminated the game in the ground punch.
Tang Kai ushered in his fifth consecutive victory in the ONE Championship with this match, and also entered the top five rankings in one fell swoop, ranking fourth in the featherweight, becoming the first Chinese player to enter the MEN's Mixed Martial Arts Ranking of the ONE Championship, creating history.
Ranked third in the top five exciting moments of 2021
Stamp Fairtex
surrender
Ritu Phogat
In "ONE: Winter God of War" on December 3, the high-profile AtomicWeights World Eight-Man Championship Finals were staged, with former ONE Championship kickboxing and Muay Thai double champion Staples and Indian women's fighting first person Ritu Foga.
Stamp is a ceiling-level stand-up wrestler, while Ritu, as India's national treasure wrestler, is naturally unbeatable in wrestling. While everyone thought it was going to be a stand-up and a fight, Stamp showed off his amazing jiu-jitsu skills, using cross-entries to directly subdue Rito in the second round, winning the World Eight- and stamping the World Eight, while Stamp also qualified to challenge Angela Lee, the world champion in the atomic weights.
Step's transition from pure Muay Thai to mixed martial arts and the surrender of the wrestler-turned-Rip on the ground can't imagine how much effort and sweat it took. Stamp used this battle to tell everyone that no matter what the rules, she is the top player and the well-deserved first Thai woman in the fight.
Ranked second in the top five exciting moments of 2021
Superbon Bahchamek
KO
Giorgio Petrosyan
In the "ONE: One Strike into the Soul" event on October 15, Giorgio Petosio and Subobang competed for the long-vacant title of featherweight kickboxing title. The ONE Championship has signed almost all of the top kickboxers in the featherweights, and the weight of this gold belt is also the most important in the world.
The showdown also ended in unimaginable fashions, and shortly after the start of the second leg, Subobang used consecutive mid-sweeps to block George's attack, and suddenly an unexpected high sweep directly hit George's head exposed from defense, koing him.
As the most legendary kickboxer, George has always been seen as an unbeatable being. After this battle, the myth that belonged to George was broken. Su Bobang was also crowned a god in one battle, and was crowned the first featherweight kickboxing world champion in the history of the ONE Championship. But this is far from the end, the featherweight world eight is underway, in the featherweight of all the world's top boxers, can Subobang keep his golden belt for a long time?
The first of the five wonderful moments of 2021
Adriano Moraes
Demetrious Johnson
In the April 8 "ONE: Earth-Shattering" mega-fighting event, "Hercules" Dimitris Johnson launched a shock at the flyweight world champion Adriano Moraes. Johnson has ruled the UFC flyweight for 6 years, is the absolute hegemon of the event flyweight, he also dominated the world mixed martial arts P4P ranking for a long time, before the game, "Hercules" was also unanimously optimistic about the industry.
However, the development of the game once again shocked everyone.1 In the first round, "Hercules" was very strong, but in the second round, the two sides in a close encounter, Morais knocked Johnson down with a hook punch, followed by another ferocious knee hit Johnson in the head, simply and neatly KO.
With this battle, Moraes kept his golden belt, but also let the world remember his name, in this year's World MMA Awards, Moraes also won the "Upset of the Year" (Upset of the Year), in the future, Moris will create his own flyweight era.