By tradition, the decision to award the bonus is announced immediately after the fight, while the fighter is still in the cage, which always guarantees strong emotions and immediate reactions from the athletes. Bonuses of $50,000 went to Sage Northcutt, Sebastian Kadestam, Stemp Fairtex and Mikey Musumechi. Rodtang, who became an American crowd favorite last week, walked out of the cage with a check for $100,000.
The first medalist was Sage Northcutt, 27, who returned to the cage after four years of inactivity. The then undefeated fighter, who ONE reps had high hopes for in 2019, lost by first-round knockout to Cosmo Alexandra in his first fight and received injuries so severe it was a possible retirement. At the ONE Fight Night 10 tournament, he was able to triumphantly return to duty. He had a light fight against Ahmed Mujtab and won in just 39 seconds with a leg submission.
The second bonus of the evening was won by Sweden’s Sebasian Kadestam, former ONE welterweight champion. In the second round of the fight against former KSW middleweight and welterweight champion Roberto Soldic, he hit the opponent with an elbow and immediately finished him off with a flurry of powerful blows that sent Soldic on the Web.
One of ONE’s brightest stars Stemp Fairtex, which is on the front line of the ONE atomic weight rating, won against American Alice Anderson. In the second round, as soon as the opponents scattered from the clinch, she delivered a powerful and accurate kick to the abdomen, after which the opponent could not continue the fight.
Mikey Musumechi, rightly considered one of the best grapplers in the world, successfully defended the ONE World Submission Grappling Flyweight Championship belt. Early in the ninth minute of round one, he landed a rear naked choke of Osamu Almarwai.
A real sensation at the Colorado stadium was made by the king of the lightest division of Muay Thai Rodtang. In the second round, with a sharp nudge, he knocked out his challenger – WBC champion Edgar Tabares. After the result was announced and a $100,000 bonus awarded, the Thai champion stepped out of the cage to personally congratulate ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong. After Rodtang challenged new bantamweight champion Jonathan Haggerty after the fight, they started talking about a possible new ONE international tournament, now in Europe, in the Englishman’s homeland.
Watch live broadcasts of ONE tournaments on the federal channel and thematic channels of the holding, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source : MatchTV
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