ONE Championship breaks new ground as the world’s premiere combat sports company with a new global league especially for elite strikers.
ONE Championship Chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong explained the details of the new tournament during the ONE Super Series Global Conference Call last February 15, 2018.
The most exciting aspect of ONE Super Series is that it not only features the world’s greatest strikers from Muay Thai, kickboxing, taekwondo, karate, kung fu, sanda, lethwei, silat, and more but will also welcome ONE Championship fighters who are known strikers like Team Lakay’s Eduard Folayang and Honorio Banario.
The public gets its first taste of the tournament at ONE: Heroes of Honor in Manila on April 20 with bouts from various styles of martial arts. Legendary multiple-time world champion Giorgio Petroysan (85-2-2, 2 NC) will face Lion Fight world champion Jo Nattawut (60-11-2) under international kickboxing rules.
Also on the card are multiple-time Muay Thai world champion Nong-O Gaiyanghadao (255-54-1) will compete against multiple-time Muay Thai world champion Fabio Pinca (99-23-4) under Muay Thai rules with ONE gloves.
In addition to those world-class talents, other elite strikers who have signed on to compete in the ONE Super Series include Muay Thai world champions Petchboonchu FA Group, Yodsaenklai Fairtex, Sam-A Gaiyanghadao, Singtongnoi Por Telakun, Kwankhao Mor. Rattanabandit, and Yodcherry Sityodtong.
Also, some of ONE Championship’s most talented martial artists and Muay Thai world champions, Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke, Sagetdao “Deadly Star” Petpayathai, and Alain “The Panther” Ngalani are slated to participate in the exciting new league.
“I’m thrilled to announce the ONE Super Series because it’s a massive, game-changing moment for the world of martial arts. ONE Championship has been a celebration of Asia’s greatest cultural treasure – martial arts – and the values of integrity, honor, respect, humility, discipline, courage and compassion. From my perspective, creating a super league that invites the world’s greatest strikers from all arts of Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Lethwei, Silat, Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Sambo, Kung Fu, Sanda, Wushu – the martial arts that come from Asia – I think it’s a huge moment in the history of martial arts,” said Sityodtong during the conference call.
In the same way that Starbucks offers many flavors of coffee and tea, ONE Championship offers all martial arts. ONE Championship is the home of martial arts.
“We have earned that reputation over the last couple of years, and so instead of mixed martial arts, as a fight fan and as a martial arts lover, you now get to see all forms of martial arts for the very first time in history. So you will see matches of, you know, Muay Thai versus Tae Kwon Do, or Tae Kwon Do versus Kung Fu, and the list goes on and on. This is a massive game-changing moment, not just for ONE Championship but also for the world of martial arts,” said Sityodtong.
ONE Championship has already signed some of the world’s greatest martial artists. The list of competitors of ONE Super Series is already the greatest collection of strikers on the planet. No other league has this level of talent, this many world champions who have agreed to compete against each other according to Sityodtong.