“Here comes the announcement of my confrontation at 93 kg,” – quotes the Russian “Match TV”. “No problem, I’ll make weight easily and give people a spectacle. Give the people what they come to the arenas or turn on the TV for – like always I’m going to go ahead and knock this guy out”
“I’ll take the triple bonus, I’ll take the third belt. Then I’ll put all three belts on my wife, if she can handle it, because they’re heavy, kiss her hands and thank her for what she does for me. And we’ll ride off into the sunset in peace.”
The Asian league officially announced the day before that the middleweight title superfight will be the main event of ONE 166, which takes place on March 1 in Lusail, Qatar.
Last December, Anatoly Malykhin stripped Rainier de Ridder of his ONE FC light heavyweight title by winning the fight by TKO in the first round, and in June of this year, the Russian fighter successfully unified the current and interim ONE FC heavyweight titles by finishing Arjan Bullard by TKO in the third round.