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2012 In ONE Championship
The year 2012 was the 2nd year in the history of the ONE Championship, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Singapore. List of events ONE Fighting Championship: Battle of Heroes ''ONE Fighting Championship: Battle of Heroes'' (also known as ''ONE FC 2'') was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event took place on February 11, 2012 at The BritAma Arena in North Jakarta, Indonesia and was broadcast by MNC International. ;Background This was the first event ONE held outside of Singapore. ;Results ONE Fighting Championship: War of the Lions ''ONE Fighting Championship: War of the Lions'' (also known as ''ONE FC 3'') was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event took place on March 31, 2012 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. ;Background The event marked the debut of Nicole Chua, believed to be Singapore's first ever professional female mixed martial artist. ;Results ONE Fighting C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 In ONE Championship
''ONE Fighting Championship: Champion vs. Champion'' (also known as ''ONE FC 1'') was the inaugural mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event took place on September 3, 2011 at the 12,000 capacity Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. It is the first and only event held by the organization in 2011. Background ONE Championship instituted Pride Fighting Championships rules combined with Nevada's unified rules; this allowed for soccer kicks, head stomps, knees on the ground, and permitting the use of elbows. The event was broadcast on domestic TV in Singapore by MediaCorp Channel 5. The event also streamed live on Sherdog to all countries except Singapore. This led multiple media sources to describe ONE Fighting Championship: Champion vs. Champion as "the biggest event in Asian mixed martial arts history" and to speculate that the TV audience might be the biggest ever for a mixed martial arts event. On 17 August 2011 it was announced that A Sol Kwon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Jakarta
North Jakarta (; ), abbreviated as Jakut, is one of the five administrative cities (''kota administrasi'') which form Special Capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia. North Jakarta is not self-governed and does not have a city council, hence it is not classified as a proper municipality. It contains the entire coastal area within the Jakarta Special Capital Region. North Jakarta, along with South Jakarta is the only two cities in Jakarta to border Banten and West Java. It is also the only city of Jakarta with a coastline and thus not landlocked (along with the Thousand Islands Regency). North Jakarta, an area at the estuary of Ciliwung river was the main port for the kingdom of Tarumanegara, which later grew to become Jakarta. Many historic sites and artefacts of Jakarta can be found in North Jakarta. Both ports of Tanjung Priok and historic Sunda Kelapa are located in the city. The city, which covers an area of 139.99 km2, had 1,645,659 inhabitants at the 2010 censusBir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuya Shirai
Yuya Shirai (born April 2, 1980) is a Japanese professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Welterweight division. A professional competitor since 2003, Shirai has fought for ONE FC, DEEP, BAMMA, Glory World Series, M-1 Global, Pancrase, DREAM, and is a former DEEP Welterweight Champion. Mixed martial arts career Background Shirai comes from a judo background and holds a black belt in the discipline. On June 8, 2003, he won the Japanese National Sambo Championship in the under 90 kilograms weight class. Early career Shirai made his debut in mixed martial arts on September 15, 2003. He is currently signed with DEEP in the Welterweight division, and won the DEEP Welterweight Championship in January 2010 by defeating Seichi Ikemoto. He also took part in the DREAM Welterweight Grand Prix 2009, losing to Jason High by rear naked-choke in the first round. He then beat Che Mills at Hidehiko Yoshida's farewall event ASTRA. On February 26, 2011, he faced Paul Dal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Folayang
Eduard Ayangwa Folayang (born November 22, 1983) is a Filipino professional mixed martial artist and wushu practitioner who competes in the Lightweight division of ONE Championship, where he is a two-time ONE Lightweight World Champion. He also competed for Universal Reality Combat Championship, where he is a former URCC Welterweight Champion. Folayang was a member of Team Lakay Wushu in Baguio from 2007 until he left the gym on March 10, 2023, which has produced numerous Filipino champions in URCC and ONE Championship. The Baguio native made his first Martial Combat debut on June 17, 2010, defeating Slovak fighter Egon Racz via guillotine choke early in the first round. Folayang has won several international Wushu tournaments, including a gold medal at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games which he won with a spinning back kick KO in the final, a silver medal in the 2006 Doha Asian Games, and bronze medals in both the 2005 World Wushu Championship and the 2002 Bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Sanchez
Donald Sanchez (born August 8, 1984) is an American bare-knuckle boxer currently competing in the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. He is also a mixed martial artist who competed in the Featherweight division. A professional competitor since 2005, he has also competed for Bellator, Absolute Championship Berkut, King of the Cage, the MFC, Legacy FC, and the RFA. Mixed martial arts career Bellator MMA Sanchez faced Johnny Eduardo on April 17, 2009, at Bellator III. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. Sanchez defeated Cliff Wright at Bellator 97 on July 31, 2013, via split decision. Absolute Championship Berkut Sanchez signed a four-fight deal with the ACB in October 2016. His debut at ACB were on 18 December 2016 at ACB 50: Rasulov vs. Goltsov in St.Petersburg, Russia against Adlan Bataev. He lost the fight via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28). Sanchez was expected to face Yusuf Raisov on March 24, 2017, at the ACB 55. However, Sanchez pulled ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsuya Kawajiri
is a Japanese mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist who competes in the Bantamweight (MMA), Bantamweight division. He is a former List of Shooto champions#Lightweight Championship, Shooto Lightweight Champion, and has also competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, UFC, PRIDE Fighting Championships, PRIDE, Dream (mixed martial arts), DREAM, Strikeforce (mixed martial arts), Strikeforce, ONE FC, and Rizin Fighting Federation. Kawajiri also participated in the Yarennoka! event as well as Dynamite!! 2009 and Dynamite!! 2010, representing DREAM in both events. Kawajiri's fight at List of Pride events, PRIDE Bushido 9 with Takanori Gomi was voted as PRIDE Fighting Championships, PRIDE Fighting Championship's Fight of the Year for 2005. In the same year, Kawajiri was considered by many mixed martial arts publications to be the #1 Lightweight (MMA), Lightweight fighter in the world. Background Kawajiri was born in the Inashiki District, Ibaraki, Inashiki District of Ibaraki Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irshaad Sayed
Irshaad "The White Tiger" Sayed (born 30 March 1989) is a South African national kickboxing champion, two time Muay Thai world champion and mixed martial arts champion who is currently signed with EFC Worldwide: Extreme Fighting Championship and is the Interim EFC Bantamweight Champion. He is a former 135 lbs Chinese National MMA Champion. Biography and career Sayed was born in Cape Town and has two sisters and one brother. At school he loved sports participating in soccer, rugby and cricket before taking up kickboxing at the age of 15. He began competing in amateur competitions in South Africa running up a record of 9-0 but at the age of 17 he wanted to compete professionally and decided to move to Thailand to fight. He won the WPMF Lightweight belt in Thailand in 2007 and returned home to win the South African National Kickboxing Championships the same year. In 2008, at the age of 18, he won the WMC I-1 Asia Championship title in Hong Kong and was invited to move there per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Silva (fighter)
Alex Silva (born October 10, 1982) is a Brazilian former mixed martial artist, who competed in the Strawweight division for the ONE Championship, he is a former ONE Strawweight World Champion. Mixed martial arts career ONE Championship Silva made his debut against Geje Eustaquio on February 11, 2012, at ONE FC: Battle of Heroes. He lost the bout via unanimous decision. Silva faced Rene Catalan on April 5, 2013, at ONE FC: Kings and Champions. He won the fight via armbar submission in the first round. Silva faced Ruel Catalan on December 11, 2015, at ONE: Spirit of Champions. He won the bout via kneebar submission in the first round. Silva faced Robin Catalan on March 18, 2016, at ONE: Union of Warriors. He won the bout via arm-triangle choke submission in the first round. Silva faced former ONE Strawweight World Championship challenger Roy Doliguez on February 11, 2017, at ONE: Throne of Tigers. He won the bout via armbar submission in the third round. Silva faced Haya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Sapp
Robert Malcolm Sapp (born September 22, 1973) is an American mixed martial artist, kickboxing, kickboxer, professional wrestler, actor, and former American football, football player. He is currently under contract with Rizin Fighting Federation. Sapp has a combined fight record of 24–39–1, mostly fighting in Japan. He is well known in Japan, where he has appeared in numerous commercials, television programs, and various other media, and has released a music CD, ''Sapp Time''. He is known there as a ''gaijin tarento'' (foreign-born talent). He is currently working sporadically for various MMA promotions in the U.S., Japan, and Europe. Sapp played college football as a Guard (gridiron football), guard for the Washington Huskies football, Washington Huskies with whom he won the Morris Trophy. He was selected in the third round of the 1997 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears with whom he played for one season seeing no game action before playing with the Minnesota Vikings for anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolles Gracie
Rolles Gracie (born July 14, 1978) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner, and professional wrestler. As the son of Rolls Gracie, he is a third generation martial arts member of the Gracie family, and a 5th degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Mixed martial arts career Gracie stepped into the International Fight League for his first MMA fight on the undercard of the IFL World Team Championships in 2007. He joined his cousin Renzo Gracie's New York Pitbulls in the IFL. Gracie's younger brothers Igor and Gregor are also mixed martial artists. Gracie was set to fight Ricardo Romero at Ring of Combat 24, April 17, 2009, but he withdrew from the fight a week before due to an injury sustained in practice. Gracie signed with Art of War Fighting Championship and made his debut on May 23, 2009, where he defeated in a mixed martial match Magomedbag Agaev from Daghestan at 5:09 seconds in Round 1. Rolles, in his second fight f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Falciroli
Gustavo Falciroli (born 13 December 1982) is an Australian-Brazilian former mixed martial artist, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner. Falciroli has formerly competed in Australian Fighting Championship, where he was the inaugural bantamweight champion. He also competed in ONE FC, Shooto, and Cage Fighting Championship (CFC), where he was the former bantamweight champion. He is regarded as one of the most decorated mixed martial arts fighters in Australia’s history and he is a fourth degree Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt. Brazilian jiu-jitsu Gustavo started his training in 1996 with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with Paulo Roberto de Miranda Streckert and has also trained with Carlos Alberto Liberi, in 2003 he was awarded his black belt by Roberto Tozi and Roberto Godoi. After placing third at the BJJ World Championships, winning the Brazilian Cup and taking home a slew of state titles in Brazil—all as a black belt—in 2007 he made the move to Australia and the transition into MMA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rustam Khabilov
Rustam Mikailovich Khabilov (born 4 November 1986) is a Russian mixed martial artist, who last competed in the Welterweight division. He is a Combat Sambo World Champion and a former member of the Legion Sport Club fight team in Rostov-on-Don. Prior to signing with Bellator, Khabilov previously fought in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Background Rustam was born in Goksu-otar village in Dagestan, in a Kumyk family. He studied at the Makhachkala Automobile College, where his sports career began. He started his training under Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, soon becoming world and Russia champion in fight sambo discipline. Married, has two sons and a daughter. Mixed martial arts career ONE Fighting Championship In January 2012 it was announced that Khabilov had signed with ONE Fighting Championship. He made his debut at ONE Fighting Championship: Battle of Heroes at The BritAma Arena in Jakarta, Indonesia on 11 February 2012 against BJJ Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
