ONE Championship triple champion Anatoly Malikin disagrees with the notion that one UFC belt trumps three titles.
The Russian fighter told usachev tv, “There is no way I would trade three one belts for a ufc belt or any other title.”
Mullikin also confirmed that he is prepared to make 84 pounds to win a fourth belt in the welterweight division.
He said, “I can easily make 84 pounds; when I raced at 93 pounds, I didn’t wear a sauna suit, and I got to that weight just by training and dieting.
On March 1, at one166 in Qatar, Anatoly Mullikin took the one middleweight belt from Rainier de Ridder and became the first triple champion in mixed martial arts history, as the battered Dutchman refused to get up from his parter and continue the meeting. The title match will end in three rounds.
In December 2022, Mullikin won by first-round technical knockout, stripping De Ridder of the heavyweight title, and last June, the Russian beat Arjan Bullard by third-round technical knockout to unify the current and interim one heavyweight titles.
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