On Sept. 30, 2022 (US time), ONE Battle Evening 2 befell from Singapore Indoor Stadium. ONE Battle Nights started in 2022 on Amazon Prime Video inside the US and Canada when the fight sports activities promotion and streaming platform agreed on a multi-year pact to carry ONE playing cards in a month-to-month window on Friday nights to North American audiences.
As was the case with the earliest ONE on Prime Video playing cards, ONE Battle Evening 2 started with an undercard. The evening kicked off with a heavyweight kickboxing match between Rade Opacic and Giannis Stoforidis.
The competition progressed to the second spherical of a scheduled three, throughout which period the previous landed a sequence of punches on the latter, knocking him down and forcing the referee to name a halt to the proceedings. As of 2025, Opacic is at present a member of the GLORY Kickboxing energetic roster, becoming a member of the promotion with the April 5 card in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Marat Grigorian Outpaces Tayfun Ozcan in Featured Lead Card Bout of ONE Battle Evening 2
Following victories by Anissa Meksen (unanimous resolution) over Dangkongfah Banchamek in a catchweight Muay Thai affair and Oh Ho-Taek (break up resolution) versus Ryogo Takahashi throughout a featherweight MMA contest, the featured bout on the lead card at this Prime Video occasion noticed motion going down at featherweight in one other kickboxing bout. On this evening, Marat Grigorian made the stroll to the cage for a three-round combat towards Tayfun Ozcan at ONE Battle Evening 2.
Throughout this featured lead card combat, Grigorian put his foot on the gasoline pedal late within the opening spherical, touchdown lead leg kicks down the stretch. Whereas Ozcan had his moments that evening, significantly when he landed uppercuts, Grigorian various his hanging in spherical two of the combat.
Even when Tayfun Ozcan related on a flying knee, Marat Grigorian caught to what he knew greatest, touchdown combos. His counterstriking finally informed the story on this contest, as Grigorian was the person who bought his hand raised in victory on the final evening of September three years in the past.
“Darth Rigatoni” Captures Flyweight Submission Grappling Title in ONE Battle Evening 2 Co-Essential Occasion
In the course of the co-headlining affair of the night’s motion at ONE Battle Evening 2, the ONE Flyweight Submission Grappling Championship was up for grabs for the primary time ever. Mikey Musumeci, additionally identified by his nickname of “Darth Rigatoni”, squared off towards Cleber Souza for the title.
Beneath ONE submission grappling match guidelines, the primary contestant to lock in a submission throughout a 10-minute spherical is the winner, but when no submissions are recorded in that point, the competitor who makes essentially the most threatening makes an attempt at a submission would be the one declared the victor. Whereas Souza fought valiantly to attempt to defend Musumeci’s assaults, the latter was simply too robust
After the allotted time elapsed, Musumeci scored the victory by the use of unanimous resolution on the judges scorecards. Lower than two years after the cardboard, Musumeci departed ONE Championship to compete within the UFC Battle Move Invitational, a sequence of grappling tournaments held by the UFC’s subscription-based streaming platform.
Xiong Jing Nan Bests Angela Lee in Essential Occasion
The primary occasion of the night at ONE Battle Evening 2 noticed the ONE Girls’s Strawweight MMA World Championship. Inaugural titleholder Xiong Jing Nan defended the belt towards challenger Angela Lee. This was a trilogy bout between the 2 fighters, with the previous taking the primary two matches within the all-time sequence.
Chapter three of the e-book performed out very similar to the primary installment of the story. Over the course of the 25 minutes of motion, Xiong held serve, scoring with brutal hammerfists to Lee, together with some floor and pound in spherical one.
Whereas Lee tried to reverse the script in spherical two, Xiong’s protection was stout. Lee’s try at a single-leg takedown through the back-end of the interval was expertly thwarted by Xiong, who bought the combat again to the clinch.
Though Angela Lee made a bid at a comeback through the later rounds of the ONE Battle Evening 2 predominant occasion, Xiong’s gutty effort within the bout resulted in her seventh protection of the championship at 125 lbs. Xiong took the all-time sequence versus Lee by a 2-1 margin.
A yr after the combat versus Xiong, Angela Lee retired from MMA.
Remaining Ideas
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