Since the beginning of 2022, the ONE Championship has been a big move, and the two large-scale fighting events of "ONE: Heavy Punch" and "ONE: Invincible" have attracted wide attention with their luxurious lineups. In addition, the "ONE: X" series was officially confirmed to start on March 26, and three super battles were announced, setting off another boom.
The brunt was the Women's Atomic Weight World Championships of Angela Lee vs Stamp Fairtex. Stamp is the one-championship pre-match kickboxing and Muay Thai world champion, and in the AtomicWeights World Eight, she won three battles, defeating Alyona Rassokhina, a tangling expert who brought her only defeat, Standing Strongman Julie Mezabarba and Indian women's fighting first Ritu Phogat to win the Eight-Man World Championship. Qualified with the challenge atomic magnitude world champion Lee Seung Joo.
Li Shengzhu is also one of the most dominant champions of the ONE Championship, and her most recent match was defended by winning the second match with Xiong Jingnan in 2019. Now, Li Shengzhu has not played for more than 2 years, in the face of the powerful challenger Stamp, can she continue to write the glory of the past? Can Stamp become the triple crown champion spanning the three mainstream martial arts fields of kickboxing, Muay Thai and MMA, and become the first woman to fight? Let's wait and see.
The second supermatch was the Flyweight World Championship match between Adriano Moraes vs Yuya Wakamatsu. Moraes has not played very often in recent years, but it is full of gold. Especially in the 2021 world championship defense battle, he used his knee bump in the second round to KO the legendary fighter "Hercules" Demetrious Johnson, a battle that made him completely famous in the world boxing world. It also won the "Best Upset Award" at the 2021 World Mixed Martial Arts Awards.
Moraes' challenger Yuya Wakamatsu is currently in second place in the flyweight, just behind the Hercules. Since losing to The Hercules in 2019, Yuya Wakamatsu has won a five-game winning streak, including former champion Geje Eustaquio, fifth-placed Reece McLaren and others, and defeated China's Hu Yong in the last match. Because the addition of "Hercules" and the defeat of the upset, the future direction of the ONE Champion Flyweight is becoming more and more unpredictable, this time, the strong rise of Wakamatsu Yuya will become the dark horse?
The third battle is not a world championship battle, but it has been voted by many as the most anticipated showdown of 2022, that is, the special rule super battle between "Hercules" Johnson and "Iron Man" Rodtang Jitmuangnon.
There is no doubt that "Hercules" is the strongest mixed martial artist in the flyweight in the past, he has dominated the UFC flyweight for 6 years, and has long dominated the world MMA P4P ranking. Even if he lost the challenge to the championship after coming to the ONE Championship, this did not affect his glorious past and fame in the world of mixed martial arts.
Rotang is the most high-profile stand-up fighting star of recent years and the ONE Champion Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion. He currently has all 10 wins in the ONE Championship, with no defeat. His tough fighting style and tenacity in the face of strong enemies have made him gain a large number of fan attention.
In this competition, the two sides will play a mixed rule of Muay Thai and MMA, which is also a peak collision between the top standing players and the top MMA players. Whether it is topical, ornamental or suspenseful, this is an incomparably eye-catching cross-border war.
The determination of the three super wars is destined to make "ONE X" the focus of world fighting in 2022. The ONE Championship continued to throw bombshells at the beginning of the year, laying the foundation for a new record.