(Singapore, 29 December 2021) – The internationally renowned sport IP-ONE Championships today unveiled all the battle cards for the "ONE: Invincible" major fighting event, which will be broadcast live on Friday night, January 28, 2022 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
The headline main event for "ONE: Invincible" is a mixed martial arts heavyweight interim world championship against Anatoly Malykhin and Kirill Grishenko. Neither player has been defeated so far, with Grishchenko winning four of his 5 career games and winning two consecutive ones in the ONE Championship. Marehin has a record of winning nine games and ending nine games, both of his matches at the ONE Championship were first-leg (T) KO opponents, and in the last match he koed Amir Aliakbari in just 2 minutes and 57 seconds to win the title challenge.
The two players in the joint main competition are Tang Kai, the "KO male god" expected by Chinese boxing fans, and Kim Jae Woong, the "god of war" in South Korea. Tang Kai has now won all five games in the ONE Championship, and he reached the fourth place in the world in the featherweights with the first leg of KO Korea's Yoon Chang Min, becoming the first men's mixed martial artist in China to enter the official ranking of the ONE Championship. Kim's ONE Championship record was only 4-3-1, but he was ranked first in the featherweights with his first leg of KO-backed former world champion Martin Nguyen. This tang kai against Jin Jiaoxiong, is generally considered to be an unofficial confirmation of the championship challenge battle, whether Tang Kai can continue to make history, become China's first male mixed martial artist to challenge the world championship, let us wait and see.
China's Zhang Lipeng and Wang Shuo will both celebrate their second match since signing for the ONE Championship. Zhang Lipeng uncontroversially defeated former champion and legendary Filipino fighter Eduard Folayang in his ONE Championship debut, this time against Kyrgyzstan's Ruslan Emilbek Uulu, who won 13-1 in his career. Wang Shuo kooked South Korea's Kim Kyu Sung in his DEBUT ATONE Championships, and this time he will play against the experienced Japanese Tatsumitsu Wada.
In addition, the semi-finals of the Featherweight Kickboxing World Eight will also be staged in this edition, with Sittichai Sitsongpeenong playing Davit Kiria, Marat Grigorian playing Chingiz Allazov, and the winner of the two matches will be the division final to determine the overall winner.
"ONE: Invincible"
Friday, January 28, 2022
ONE Heavyweight MMA Interim Championship Heavyweight: 102.2kg – 120.2kg
Anatoly Malykhin vs Kirill Grishenko
Mixed martial arts featherweight: 65.9kg – 70.3kg
Tang Kai vs Kim Jae Woong
ONE Featherweight Kickboxing World Eight-Man Semifinals Weights: 65.9kg – 70.3kg
Marat Grigorian vs Chingiz Allazov
Sittichai Sitsongpeenong vs Davit Kiria
MMA Lightweight: 70.4kg – 77.1kg
Zhang Li Peng vs Ruslan Emilbek Uulu
Kickbox heavyweight: 102.2kg – 120.2kg
Rade Opacic vs Francesko Xhaja
Mixed martial arts grass scale: 52.3kg – 56.7kg
Hiroba Minowa vs Jarred Brooks
ONE Featherweight Kickboxing World Eight Substitute Badmints: 65.9kg – 70.3kg
Smokin Jo Nattawut vs Dovydas Rimkus
Mixed martial fly scale: 56.8kg – 61.2kg
Tatsumitsu Wada vs Wang Shuo
MMA sub-middleweight: 77.2kg – 83.9kg
Hiroyuki Tetsuka vs Zebaztian Kadestam
Mitsu Light Heavyweight: 93.1kg – 102.1kg
Anderson Silva vs Paul Elliott
Muay Thai Grass Scale: 52.3kg – 56.7kg
Georgina van der Linden vs Smilla Sundell
(Source: Official Contribution)
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