Anatoly Malykhin, take a bow. The Russian placed on a spectacular efficiency in knocking out former champion Reinier de Ridder within the very first spherical. A clubbing proper hand dropped the Dutchman earlier than some brutal pictures on the bottom ended the competition. Malykhin wouldn’t solely take house the gold, but additionally $100k efficiency bonuses in a fantastic night time’s work. Add this to his interim heavyweight title and we’ve got ourselves a dominant drive on the prime finish of ONE’s weight divisions.
Ruotolo nonetheless reigns supreme
We knew Kade Ruotolo was one thing of a prodigy on the subject of the world of submission grappling, and the 19-year-old has as soon as once more proven what he’s able to. Dealing with his hardest take a look at so far within the type of Brazil’s Matheus Gabriel, Ruotolo placed on a clinic of precision and aggressive tempo setting to select up the unanimous choice win, and maintain maintain of his light-weight submission grappling world championship.
A second Ruotolo success
Kade might have picked up one other standout win, however earlier within the night time it was his brother Tye who was grabbing the headlines – and a $50k efficiency bonus. He placed on a scintillating show to down former ONE featherweight world champion Marat Gafurov. The dual brother of Kade was aggressive from the outset exhibiting actual creativity in making an attempt to get the submission on this catchweight bout. Midway by the 10-minute single spherical, he would present unimaginable dexterity to transition from sub try and sub try and finally lock in an armbar for the win.
Solidic debut ends in disappointment
There was quite a lot of anticipation going into Roberto Solidic’s ONE debut towards the undefeated Murad Ramazanov. Nevertheless we should wait a little bit bit longer for a real sighting after this one resulted in a no contest following a low blow from Ramazanov. A disappointment on the night time – however each males might be again chasing massive issues within the close to future.
Edson makes his mark
Brazil’s Edson Marques scored a efficiency bonus profitable TKO over former ONE light-weight world champion Eduard Folayang with a surprising proper cross, which landed on the button. This provides him back-to-back wins within the light-weight division and a few momentum into what he’ll hope to be a standout 2023.
