ONE Championship: Defending Honor - Aoki vs. Folayang - November 11 (OFFICIAL DISCUSSION)

One FC  48
November 11, 2016
Singapore Indoor Stadium
Kallang, Singapore

Main Card:
Shinya Aoki (39-6)              vs.                (16-5) Eduard Folayang  
Main Event |  Title Fight | Lightweight | 155 lbs (70 kg)
 
Marat Gafurov (14-0)          vs.    (12-4) Narantungalag Jadambaa  
Co-Main Event |  Title Fight | Featherweight | 145 lbs (66 kg)

Roger Huerta (22-9)            vs.                       (22-9) Adrian Pang  
Main Card | Lightweight | 155 lbs (70 kg)

Timofey Nastyukhin (10-2)   vs.                   (24-11) Kotetsu Boku  
Main Card | Featherweight | 145 lbs (66 kg)

Amir Khan (5-2)                  vs.                       (4-0) Samir Mrabet  
Main Card | Featherweight | 145 lbs (66 kg)

Michelle Nicolini (10-2)         vs.                     (24-11) Mona Samir  
Main Card | Female Strawweight | 115 lbs (52 kg)

Tiffany Teo (5-2)                  vs.                        (4-0) Walaa Abas  
Main Card | Female Flyweight | 125 lbs (57 kg)

Benedict Ang (3-0)               vs.                  (7-0) Ahmed Mujtaba  
Main Card | Featherweight | 145 lbs (66 kg)


Also Shinya Aoki (39-6) returns/defends LW title vs. Eduard "The Landslide" Folayang (16-5)

Is MW 185lbs in OneFC? Or did they change it? I remember Roger Gracie saying cutting to 185lbs was a mistake in an interview from a couple of months ago, because he was so drained and felt dead. It would be odd for him to do it again.

Yes it would but it will give him the oppurtunity of being one of few to be a 2 weight world champion simultaneously . And 1 question is what happened to the guy that did hold the belt ? last and not least boooo that they banned soccer kicks .

ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced additional bouts for ONE: DEFENDING HONOR, which is set to rock the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 11 November. In the main event, ONE Lightweight World Champion Shinya Aoki will defend his title against Eduard Folayang of the Philippines. In the co-main event, ONE Featherweight World Champion Marat Gafurov will do battle with former titleholder Narantungalag Jadambaa of Mongolia in a highly-anticipated rematch.

Lightweight Championship:
Shinya Aoki (39-6) vs. Eduard "The Landslide" Folayang (16-5)

Featherweight Championship Rematch:
Marat "Cobra" Gafurov (14-0) vs. Narantungalag Jadambaa (12-4)

Lightweight:
Eddie 'The Magician' Ng (7-4) vs. Adrian Pang (22-9-2)

Featherweight:
Timofey Nastyukhin (10-2) vs. Kotetsu Boku (24-11-2)

Featherweight:
Amir Khan (5-2) vs. Samir "Flexible" Mrabet (4-0)

Women's Strawweight:
Michelle Nicolini BJJ (2-1) vs. Mona Samir (1-1)

Kingfedor wrote:
ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced additional bouts for ONE: DEFENDING HONOR, which is set to rock the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 11 November. In the main event, ONE Lightweight World Champion Shinya Aoki will defend his title against Eduard Folayang of the Philippines. In the co-main event, ONE Featherweight World Champion Marat Gafurov will do battle with former titleholder Narantungalag Jadambaa of Mongolia in a highly-anticipated rematch.

Lightweight Championship:
Shinya Aoki (39-6) vs. Eduard "The Landslide" Folayang (16-5)

Featherweight Championship Rematch:
Marat "Cobra" Gafurov (14-0) vs. Narantungalag Jadambaa (12-4)

Lightweight:
Eddie 'The Magician' Ng (7-4) vs. Adrian Pang (22-9-2)

Featherweight:
Timofey Nastyukhin (10-2) vs. Kotetsu Boku (24-11-2)

Featherweight:
Amir Khan (5-2) vs. Samir "Flexible" Mrabet (4-0)

Women's Strawweight:
Michelle Nicolini BJJ (2-1) vs. Mona Samir (1-1)

Aoki is back! This is a stacked card for ONE FC with Aoki, Folayang, Gafurov, Jadambaa, Ng, Boku,... Going all out for this one.

If Aoki leaves this fight healthy, hope they let him compete on NYE in Rizin again.

CDF47 wrote:

Kingfedor wrote:
ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced additional bouts for ONE: DEFENDING HONOR, which is set to rock the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 11 November. In the main event, ONE Lightweight World Champion Shinya Aoki will defend his title against Eduard Folayang of the Philippines. In the co-main event, ONE Featherweight World Champion Marat Gafurov will do battle with former titleholder Narantungalag Jadambaa of Mongolia in a highly-anticipated rematch.

Lightweight Championship:
Shinya Aoki (39-6) vs. Eduard "The Landslide" Folayang (16-5)

Featherweight Championship Rematch:
Marat "Cobra" Gafurov (14-0) vs. Narantungalag Jadambaa (12-4)

Lightweight:
Eddie 'The Magician' Ng (7-4) vs. Adrian Pang (22-9-2)

Featherweight:
Timofey Nastyukhin (10-2) vs. Kotetsu Boku (24-11-2)

Featherweight:
Amir Khan (5-2) vs. Samir "Flexible" Mrabet (4-0)

Women's Strawweight:
Michelle Nicolini BJJ (2-1) vs. Mona Samir (1-1)

Aoki is back!  This is a stacked card for ONE FC with Aoki, Folayang, Gafurov, Jadambaa, Ng, Boku,...  Going all out for this one.

I know you sound enthused and this card is stacked I agree but I can't make myself to watch these events. What they did was a 360 move with there rules and that tells me their integrity will certainly can change during the line of the promotion. Good that I stop paying for this events and I catch some torrents and youtube obliviously.

CODELMJVG wrote:

CDF47 wrote:

Kingfedor wrote:
ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced additional bouts for ONE: DEFENDING HONOR, which is set to rock the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 11 November. In the main event, ONE Lightweight World Champion Shinya Aoki will defend his title against Eduard Folayang of the Philippines. In the co-main event, ONE Featherweight World Champion Marat Gafurov will do battle with former titleholder Narantungalag Jadambaa of Mongolia in a highly-anticipated rematch.

Lightweight Championship:
Shinya Aoki (39-6) vs. Eduard "The Landslide" Folayang (16-5)

Featherweight Championship Rematch:
Marat "Cobra" Gafurov (14-0) vs. Narantungalag Jadambaa (12-4)

Lightweight:
Eddie 'The Magician' Ng (7-4) vs. Adrian Pang (22-9-2)

Featherweight:
Timofey Nastyukhin (10-2) vs. Kotetsu Boku (24-11-2)

Featherweight:
Amir Khan (5-2) vs. Samir "Flexible" Mrabet (4-0)

Women's Strawweight:
Michelle Nicolini BJJ (2-1) vs. Mona Samir (1-1)

Aoki is back!  This is a stacked card for ONE FC with Aoki, Folayang, Gafurov, Jadambaa, Ng, Boku,...  Going all out for this one.

I know you sound enthused and this card is stacked I agree but I can't make myself to watch these events. What they did was a 360 move with there rules and that tells me their integrity will certainly can change during the line of the promotion. Good that I stop paying for this events and I catch some torrents and youtube obliviously.

Yeah, I agree, change of rules makes no sense. Just hope they work with Rizin because they have some good fighters and some top level fighters. Sakikabara and Millen mentioned interest in working with them and Victor Cui at one time wanted to work with every Asian org. If that happens soon, my interest will go back up for this org. but I still do not understand that rule change out of nowhere.

CDF47 wrote:

Kingfedor wrote:
ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced additional bouts for ONE: DEFENDING HONOR, which is set to rock the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 11 November. In the main event, ONE Lightweight World Champion Shinya Aoki will defend his title against Eduard Folayang of the Philippines. In the co-main event, ONE Featherweight World Champion Marat Gafurov will do battle with former titleholder Narantungalag Jadambaa of Mongolia in a highly-anticipated rematch.

Lightweight Championship:
Shinya Aoki (39-6) vs. Eduard "The Landslide" Folayang (16-5)

Featherweight Championship Rematch:
Marat "Cobra" Gafurov (14-0) vs. Narantungalag Jadambaa (12-4)

Lightweight:
Eddie 'The Magician' Ng (7-4) vs. Adrian Pang (22-9-2)

Featherweight:
Timofey Nastyukhin (10-2) vs. Kotetsu Boku (24-11-2)

Featherweight:
Amir Khan (5-2) vs. Samir "Flexible" Mrabet (4-0)

Women's Strawweight:
Michelle Nicolini BJJ (2-1) vs. Mona Samir (1-1)

Aoki is back!  This is a stacked card for ONE FC with Aoki, Folayang, Gafurov, Jadambaa, Ng, Boku,...  Going all out for this one.

Yeah, they really are. I might watch it inspite of the lack of soccer kicks. Might.

The reason for their rule change could be due to that one nasty soccer kick that the PC media was crying about.

Also, I thought Aoki said he never wants to fight for Rizin again?
however, if they do decide to bring Aoki back - I want to see him fight Daron Cruickshank.

Hamilcar wrote:

CDF47 wrote:

Kingfedor wrote:
ONE Championship™ (ONE), has just announced additional bouts for ONE: DEFENDING HONOR, which is set to rock the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 11 November. In the main event, ONE Lightweight World Champion Shinya Aoki will defend his title against Eduard Folayang of the Philippines. In the co-main event, ONE Featherweight World Champion Marat Gafurov will do battle with former titleholder Narantungalag Jadambaa of Mongolia in a highly-anticipated rematch.

Lightweight Championship:
Shinya Aoki (39-6) vs. Eduard "The Landslide" Folayang (16-5)

Featherweight Championship Rematch:
Marat "Cobra" Gafurov (14-0) vs. Narantungalag Jadambaa (12-4)

Lightweight:
Eddie 'The Magician' Ng (7-4) vs. Adrian Pang (22-9-2)

Featherweight:
Timofey Nastyukhin (10-2) vs. Kotetsu Boku (24-11-2)

Featherweight:
Amir Khan (5-2) vs. Samir "Flexible" Mrabet (4-0)

Women's Strawweight:
Michelle Nicolini BJJ (2-1) vs. Mona Samir (1-1)

Aoki is back!  This is a stacked card for ONE FC with Aoki, Folayang, Gafurov, Jadambaa, Ng, Boku,...  Going all out for this one.

Yeah, they really are.  I might watch it inspite of the lack of soccer kicks.  Might.

Same here

KakutogiBoomBap wrote:The reason for their rule change could be due to that one nasty soccer kick that the PC media was crying about.

Also, I thought Aoki said he never wants to fight for Rizin again?
however, if they do decide to bring Aoki back - I want to see him fight Daron Cruickshank.

That's a good point.  I remember that one recently.  

I'm not sure if Aoki was kidding or not.  It kind of seemed like he was playing the heal roll to set up  a fight with Cruickshank.  If they did that, Aoki vs. Cruickshank and Kron vs. Kitaoka are two great LW fights I'd love to see on NYE.

Kitaoka got a nice heel hook win in Japan yesterday.

CDF47 wrote:

KakutogiBoomBap wrote:The reason for their rule change could be due to that one nasty soccer kick that the PC media was crying about.

Also, I thought Aoki said he never wants to fight for Rizin again?
however, if they do decide to bring Aoki back - I want to see him fight Daron Cruickshank.

That's a good point.  I remember that one recently.  

I'm not sure if Aoki was kidding or not.  It kind of seemed like he was playing the heal roll to set up  a fight with Cruickshank.  If they did that, Aoki vs. Cruickshank and Kron vs. Kitaoka are two great LW fights I'd love to see on NYE.

Kitaoka got a nice heel hook win in Japan yesterday.

True man, You never know with Aoki yeah those would be good ones. Cruickshank wants that fight too. I like Kron vs. Kitaoka too.

http://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/41523-one-championship-defending-honor

full card




http://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/bouts/278490-one-championship-benedict-dintinho-ang-vs-ahmed-wolverine-mujtaba

i like this prelim fight....ang is their prospect and mujtaba is a tough 7-0 Pakistan guy who fought recently in WSOF-GC

Roger Huerta will face Adrian Pang at ONE: Defending Honor next month. The Australian was originally supposed to face Eddie Ng, but he suffered an injury in training and has been replaced by the UFC and Bellator veteran.

Card is stacked

A date with destiny. Behind the scenes with Shinya Aoki & Eduard Folayang ahead of their world title fight on Friday. #ONEFightNight #MMA pic.twitter.com/zs3st8mU79

— ONE Championship (@ONEChampionship) 9 novembre 2016

Paparazzi, warm-ups, rehearsals. Tonight, the flashing lights shine once more on the stars of ONE. #ONEFightNight #MMA #Singapore pic.twitter.com/MKwJniqzgP

— ONE Championship (@ONEChampionship) 11 novembre 2016

What a win for Folayang over Aoki. Impressive!

CDF47 wrote:What a win for Folayang over Aoki.  Impressive!

You really got to give Folayang credit. This is a guy who main evented ONE's first show five years ago and the company pegged him for great things but he suffered tough losses along the way and it looked as though he would never be champion. Now, he is and he deserved it. This will probably go down as the biggest win or the most emotional of his career regardless of what he does or where he goes.

Rocksoldier84 wrote:

CDF47 wrote:What a win for Folayang over Aoki.  Impressive!

You really got to give Folayang credit. This is a guy who main evented ONE's first show five years ago and the company pegged him for great things but he suffered tough losses along the way and it looked as though he would never be champion. Now, he is and he deserved it. This will probably go down as the biggest win or the most emotional of his career regardless of what he does or where he goes.

That's right. I remember they were setting him up to be a star fighter for the org. based on his URCC title and he was solid. I hope he is a good champ for them. He definitely has skills, like he showed yesterday.

Rocksoldier84 wrote:

CDF47 wrote:What a win for Folayang over Aoki.  Impressive!

You really got to give Folayang credit. This is a guy who main evented ONE's first show five years ago and the company pegged him for great things but he suffered tough losses along the way and it looked as though he would never be champion. Now, he is and he deserved it. This will probably go down as the biggest win or the most emotional of his career regardless of what he does or where he goes.

Yeah, I thought he was going to be like those guys the UFC pushes to be a star and nothing comes of it. Guy certainly impressed that night.

And: Why do you do this to us, Aoki?