The time has come – behind a week of excitement and the most difficult preparation. It’s time to tune in to the broadcast of the second Super Tournament in the ONE Fight Night series. Card Xiong vs. Lee III promises to be a grand spectacle of martial arts and thrilling moments for fans of MMA, kickboxing, sambishn-grappling and Muay Thai. Representatives from 18 countries will enter the ring at the Singapore Indoor Arena. Timofey Nastyukhin and Ilya Freimanov will represent Russia. A win could be a game-changing win for some of the 20 fighters on the card.
Reason 1: the return of tough knockout Timofey Nastyukhin
When the cage closes, Siberian Timofey Nastyukhin (14-6) automatically activates “explosive aggression” mode. This will be confirmed by his opponents Eduard Folayang (knee knockout in the first round), Rob Lisita (ultra-fast knockout after six seconds of the fight) and Eddie Alvarez (tko in the first round). Aggressive and fast handwork this time Nastyukhin, who can already be considered a veteran of ONE, completed the labor-intensive work on wrestling skills. At the meeting with the debutant of ONE Khalil Amir (7-0), the third number of the lightweights, by his own admission, is “one hundred percent ready”.
Nastyukhin will be happy “to welcome Khalil to ONE and show the level”. The decoding of this message is as follows: Nastyukhin worked on mistakes, studied the opponent and is ready to fight to the end. Given that the Russian is on a string of back-to-back defeats and before only losing to higher-ranked opponents, it’s important for Timofey to rehabilitate, get a foothold at the top and take the first step on the previously beaten path. to the ONE lightweight world champion belt. Whatever the outcome of the battle, the presence of Nastyukhin leaves no doubt – the fight will be spectacular and uncompromising.
Reason 2: The debut of brilliant prospect Ilya Freimanov
Drumming fights are always a spectacular sight. That’s what you’d expect from a fight between former welterweight champion Martin Nguyen (14-5) and newcomer Ilya Freimanov (10-2). The Russian is a ONE rookie with over three hundred fights in various sports, from army hand-to-hand combat and French boxing savate to kickboxing and MMA. In his professional MMA career, he has 10 wins, 8 of which by knockout.
Nguyen has something to pit against Freimanov: This former ONE featherweight and lightweight world champion has an incredible 91% win rate! He was the only one who managed to defeat the current lightweight champion Christian Lee in ONE. He beat the biggest fighters in the ONE championship – Filipino Eduard Folayang, Mongolian legend Narantungalaga Jadambaa and former Dagestan division king Marat Gafurov. Nguyen currently sits in third place among the division title contenders.
For a beginner, a fight with a highly rated opponent is a fluke. By his own admission, he himself is happy to be “fresh blood” in the division. He clearly sees that Nguyen’s task is to gain a foothold in the standings and return to the belt. And in this, the goals of the rivals coincide: “I want to fly well in the rankings and start the path to the belt.”
Reason 3: The end point of the confrontation between Xiong and Angela Lee
In the main event, ONE Atomic World Champion Angela Lee will return to the ring to complete her trilogy with ONE World Champion Xiong Jin Nan. China’s Xiong will defend the strawweight queen title. Judging by the first two tough fights, the rivals’ third encounter will be full of dangerous moments.
The girls first met at ONE: A New Era in March 2019. Xiong then managed to defend her strawweight belt, but for that she had to knock out Angela Lee. True, she managed to do this only in the fifth round of the fight. Seven months later, Lee returned with a rematch in mind and won – she won via rear naked choke in the fifth round of the ONE: Century Part I tournament seven months later.
Lee wants to win belts in two categories – not an easy task after a long maternity leave. In April 2021, Lee became a mother. This will be his first fight since the break. The 26-year-old is a two-time World Pankration Champion, 2013 Hawaii State Wrestling Champion and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
You can watch the ONE FC live stream on the channel, starting at 5:00 a.m. Moscow time on October 1.
Source : MatchTV
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