ONE Friday Fights 21 - 2023-06-16
Do not miss the outstanding battle between Mongkolkaew and Sonrak! Xavier Gonzalez vs. Dabdam is also great!
ONE Friday Fights 21 - 2023-06-16
Lumpinee Boxing Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
Paidang, coming off of a unanimous decision win over Batman in the main event of OFF13, takes on ONE newcomer Kongsuk. Kongsuk is 9-1 since the beginning of 2022 and is the Channel 7 135 lb champion. Two of those 9 wins were also decision wins over Batman, so these two are battling to determine Who Is The Best Batman Defeater. Kongsuek was the 2018 Lumpinee Fighter of the Year after he went 8-0 in the Madison Square Garden of the East.
ONE Muay Thai: Regular fights 3 rounds of 3 minutes, title fights 5 rounds of 3 minutes. Scored on the 10-Point Must System, but judges must declare a winner if the points are even at the end of the fight. 3 knockdowns in a round is a TKO. Elbows allowed, no throws, no grappling. Fighters fight in the 4 oz. MMA gloves instead of boxing gloves. ONE referees tend to break up the clinch almost immediately instead of letting the fighters work out of it.
ONE MMA: Regular fights 3 rounds of 5 minutes, title fights 5 rounds of 5 minutes. Bout scored in its entirety, not round-by-round. Knees to the head of a grounded opponent are legal, soccer kicks are not.
The show is located here:
Due to TV timing in Thailand, they sent out the main event as the next-to-last fight.
Fights highlighted in bold were ones that I found particularly entertaining.
Part 1
Magomed “Argo” Magomedov (8-1) vs. Yryskeldi “Kyrgyz Finisher” Duisheev (6-0) (MMA 135) 9:44
Adilet “Kok-Zhal” Nurmatov (11-2) vs. Leonardo Casotti (9-3) (MMA 155) 36:00
Sho Ogawa vs. Thongsiam (90-27) (MT 140) 58:43
Xavier Gonzalez vs. Dabdam (60-15) (MT 126) 1:23:09
Javad “Lion” Bigdeli (41-10) vs. Elias Ghazali (MT 135) 1:47:20
Yodphupa (63-9) vs. Antar Kacem (47-8) (MT 145) 2:07:38
Part 2
Yodkumarn (47-15) vs. Panthep (45-18) (MT 124) 2:32:09
Seksan vs. Dokmaipa (72-40) (MT 135) 2:50:45
Jack (60-20) vs. Mardanglek (MT 142) 3:05:14
Pettonglor (50-20) vs. Rungsangtawan (MT 136) 3:16:46
Main Event: Paidang (97-26) vs. Kongsuk (60-15) (MT 135) 3:38:59
Mongkolkaew (150-39) vs. Sonrak (61-19) (MT 135) 3:57:48