ONE Championship atomweight champ Stamp Fairtex tries to include another title to her collection when she deals with strawweight queen Xiong Jing Nan in the primary occasion of ONE Championship’s U.S. return in September.
ONE authorities on Wednesday revealed the centerpiece and co-main headliner, which pits bantamweight Muay Thai champ Jonathan Haggerty versus ONE flyweight kickboxing champ Superlek Kiatmoo9 in a fight of the promo’s 2 leading strikers.
The card occurs Sept. 6 at the Ball Arena in Denver. Tickets go on sale April 24 through Ticketmaster.
At 26, Stamp has actually rapidly turned into one of the Asian-based promo’s fastest-rising stars, dominating 3 various sports– kickboxing, Muay Thai and now MMA– by winning titles in each. She ended up being the indisputable ONE atomweight champ following a knockout win of UFC veteran Seo Hee Ham this previous September, which accompanied previous titleholder Angela Lee revealing her retirement from the sport.
When it comes to Xiong, she is of the longest ruling champs in ONE, with her only loss in the previous 9 years coming through method of submission when she fell to atomweight to challenge Lee for the title in 2019.
Beyond that, Xiong has actually been untouchable as a strawweight with 7 successive title defenses, consisting of a set of wins over Lee when she tried to end up being a two-division champ.
Now, Xiong protects her home area as soon as again when Stamp challenges her for the belt in ONE’s go back to the U.S. in September.
