ONE Friday Fights 26 - 2023-07-21
Must-see fireworks between Mohammed Siasarani and Satanfah, plus a bunch of other good fights this week, still free to watch!
ONE Friday Fights 26 - 2023-07-21
Lumpinee Boxing Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand
In tonight’s main event, “Left Meteorite” Kulabdam makes his fourth appearance in the series, coming off of a decision victory over Ilyas Musaev last month to improve to 2-1. His opponent, Rafi Bohic, has been out three months since his April split decision victory over Tapaokaew. Bohic has an 83-19 record, so he has much more experience than most of the foreigners that appear here, and in fact has more fights than Kulabdam.
In the featured fight of the first half, #4 ranked flyweight fighter Taiki “Silent Sniper” Naito makes his Friday Fights and Lumpinee Stadium debut, with an overall ONE record of 7-2. He’s coming off of a win over Amir Naseri last October, and his two losses are respectable ones to current bantamweight Muay Thai champion Jonathan Haggerty and current flyweight kickboxing champion Superlek. His opponent is Dedduanglek, who is 2-0 at Friday Fights and is coming off of a decision victory over Shakhriyor Jurayev in April.
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:
Fights highlighted in bold were ones that I found particularly entertaining.
Part 1
Brett “The American Nomad” Pastore (2-0) vs. Emran “Anaconda” Hafizoglu (5-2) (MMA 170) 11:18
Wondergirl (1-0 MMA) vs. Lisa “The Savage” Kyriacou (6-1) (MMA 125) 39:21
Kongchai vs. Jelte Blommaert (22-9) (MT 126) 1:05:53
Rambo (70-19) vs. Mavluv Tupiev (42-8) (MT 145) 1:25:36
Mohammed Siasarani vs. “The Southern Assassin” Satanfah (112-27) (MT 155) 1:46:10
#4 Taiki “Silent Sniper” Naito (35-9) vs. Dedduanglek (52-10) (MT 135) 2:01:36
Part 2
Junior vs. Wang Yue (14-3) (MT 115) 2:24:35
Petchdam (60-18) vs. Sakchainoi (60-20) (MT 134) 2:43:29
Puengluang (59-5) vs. Khunponnoi (115-31) (MT 137) 2:58:45
Suakim (148-58) vs. Kirill Khomutov (8-2) (MT 145) 3:09:42
Apiwat (98-27) vs. Denkriangkrai (MT 128) 3:24:48
“Left Meteorite” Kulabdam (67-18) vs. Rafi Bohic (83-19) (MT 145) 3:48:18