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Post by K1power on Feb 3, 2021 13:16:14 GMT 1
 ONE: Fists Of Fury-Kickboxing-Ilias Ennahachi (c) vs. Superlek Kiatmuu9 Giorgio Petrosyan vs. Davit Kiria Alejandro Rivas vs. Rodtang Jitmuangnon Hiroki Akimoto vs. Zhang Chenglong -Muay Thai-Jackie Buntan vs. Wondergirl Fairtex -MMA-Victoria Lee vs. Sunisa Srisen ONE: Fists Of Fury 2 - held on the same day, but airs on March 5th-MMA-Kang Ji Won vs. Amir Aliakbari Alexandre Machado vs. Anatoly Malykhin ONE: Fists Of Fury 3 - held on the same day, but airs on March 19th-Kickboxing-Regian Eersel (c) vs. Islam Murtazaev -Muay Thai-Janet Todd vs. Alma Juniku en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_in_ONE_Championship#ONE_Championship:_Fists_Of_Fury |
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Post by K1power on Feb 3, 2021 13:16:45 GMT 1
So this event consists of predominantly kickfights and is split into three 'sub-events', basically so that ONE can get multiple broadcasts out of one event.
To me the big one here is Petrosyan/Kiria, but they made it a co-main event.
Of course there's also Ennahachi/Superlek, Eersel/Murtazaev and Rodtang/Rivas.
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Post by Shadess on Feb 3, 2021 13:58:28 GMT 1
They kinda do title fights as the main events and Petrosyan/Kiria doesn't seem to be a title fight. Wonder why they won't put a 70kg title out there?
I love Kiria, but don't think he exactly has a high change of beating Petrosyan, specially in a 3 round fight. Not that he'd necessarily even get to rounds 4/5 against Petrosyan, but he often does better the longer the fight goes.
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Post by K1power on Feb 3, 2021 15:58:25 GMT 1
Realistically, Kiria doesn't stand much of a chance here and it's likely that Petro ends up taking a (very) comfortable decision.
But in terms of name value it's not even close, they're both former champions of the biggest promotions.
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Post by kickboxer (Banned) on Feb 4, 2021 0:53:31 GMT 1
If Ennahachi defends the title, then it's another irrelevant event. It would mean once again Chatri doesn't find better bantamweights. In Japan it's full of them. Petrosyan v Kiria is just a poor matchup. Islam Murtazaev? Are you kidding me? I have watched some Russian promotions and they barely own 1 fighter. Now poor Venum took over. Really funny, Murtazaev has been losing per line in kickboxing and also has been losing in Muay Thai quite a lot. What is the purpose of these title fights? Fooling fans without knowledge? This is the goal, fooling the noobs?
A matchmaking disaster. It would be better to invest the money in real athletes. I mean at least build some talent.
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Post by kickboxer (Banned) on Feb 4, 2021 0:57:27 GMT 1
The ONE matchmaking: - A few top kickboxers - Some names without any future - B talent, a lot, like they don't even know kickboxing, and some even C - rarely some real talent - plus in the pandemic even some bums
Such an extended promotion, with such a small amount of kickboxing fights and even Muay Thai, and the matchups are not even competitive.
2020 was a disaster, 2021 looks the same!
It's only Chatri's fault anyway, if he's a foul, the others are milking money.
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Post by K1power on Feb 4, 2021 10:17:11 GMT 1
I really don't get the hate for Petro/Kiria. Sure, the outcome is predictable. But last week we had a tournament with Rico where everybody knew the outcome as well and people got excited for that too, despite getting 0 surprises. Petro/Kiria is still a big name matchup that also could have happened in Glory or K-1. In fact it did happen in Glory before. I'm cool with it.
Aside from that? I agree that we're not getting the best matchups, but I'm not expecting much from ONE to begin with. The whole promotion is essentially a big scam.
It's why I don't like when kickboxers sign with them exclusively. I get that it's a financial decision; it's hard to get a good paycheck for fighters - especially during the pandemic - but for their careers and us fans I'm not sure it's worth it. Also a lot of people will end up being owed a lot of money when the ship sinks. Just look at how Glory screwed people over last year. And Glory is actually trying to be successful.
All that said, sometimes there are good matchups that deliver and in those cases I consider it a nice bonus.
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Post by K1power on Feb 26, 2021 9:05:35 GMT 1
Happening today.
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Post by kickboxer (Banned) on Feb 26, 2021 17:50:58 GMT 1
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Post by lero on Feb 27, 2021 2:41:47 GMT 1
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Post by K1power on Feb 28, 2021 8:47:22 GMT 1
Quick ResultsIlias Ennahachi defeats Superlek “The Kicking Machine” Kiatmoo9 via unanimous decision Giorgio “The Doctor” Petrosyan defeats Davit Kiria via unanimous decision Rodtang “The Iron Man” Jitmuangnon defeats Tagir Khalilov via split decision Hiroki Akimoto defeats “Muay Thai Boy” Zhang Chenglong via unanimous decision Jackie Buntan defeats Wondergirl Fairtex via unanimous decision Victoria Lee defeats Sunisa “Thunderstorm” Srisen via submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:03 of round two www.onefc.com/news/full-results-for-one-fists-of-fury-ennahachi-vs-superlek/In the upcoming weeks we'll get parts 2 and 3 of this event.
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Post by K1power on Feb 28, 2021 8:53:23 GMT 1
Looks like karaevfan deleted his Twitter account, but I did read his post and I'm not sure if he was just trolling or actually frustrated. |
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Post by K1power on Mar 1, 2021 12:28:53 GMT 1
Part 2 being broadcasted this Friday.
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Post by kickboxer (Banned) on Mar 1, 2021 14:58:09 GMT 1
Ennahachi won that fight. The Dutch will regret the Romanians and the Europeans when they come across the Thais.    Imagine the CEO is exactly like these fans. They complain when they lose! Not sure how big was Superlek in Thai boxing, but he fought a very bad fight. |
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Post by K1power on Mar 1, 2021 16:04:15 GMT 1
Haven't seen the fight so I can't really weigh in, but there is quite a bit of controversy surrounding Ennahachi taking the decision.
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