Having taken the light heavyweight championship belt from Rainier de Ridder, interim ONE Championship heavyweight champion Anatoly Malykhin does not believe in a unification fight with Arzhan Bullar, and in the next fight he is going to fight the Dutchman for the middleweight title.
“Bullar does not deserve a fight, he does not deserve to be in the best organization in the world,” the Russian fighter said. “There is no place for cowards. ONE Championship is a place for brave fighters. Cowards have no place here. The next fight I will hold in weight up to 93 kilograms “
“De Ridder took me to a new level – the way I did not prepare for any fighter, because I knew that this is the best fighter in the world in this weight category. He wanted to own three belts, but now I want to own three belts, maybe four, who knows. I said that I was going for all the belts – let them be careful with me.
Recall that the fight between Anatoly Malykhin and Rene de Ridder, who headed the ONE on Prime Video 5 tournament in the Philippines on December 2, ended at 4:35 of the first round with the victory of the Russian by knockout.
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/30210-anatolij-malykhin-gotov-stat-trojnym-chempionom-one-championship.html?rand=19907
