Previous ONE Championship flyweight champ Adriano Moraes returns for the very first time in more than a year when he deals with Danny Kingad in a rematch at the ONE 169 card arranged in Atlanta on Nov. 8.
ONE Championship authorities verified the match to MMA Fighting on Thursday.
The match versus Kingad works as Moraes' return battle after suffering back-to-back losses to Demetrious Johnson in they conclusion of their trilogy. Moraes managed a spectacular knockout to beat Johnson and protect his ONE flyweight title back in 2021.
Johnson got vengeance with a knockout of his own in the 2022 rematch, then beat Moraes through consentaneous choice in May 2023. Moraes hasn't battled because that night.
He returns versus Kingad, who's been a pillar of the ONE flyweight department because debuting with the promo in 2016. Kingad combated Moraes in his 4th ONE look in 2017, however suffered a submission loss in the preliminary with the flyweight title up for grabs.
Following that loss, Kingad won his next 6 battles in a row before likewise being up to Johnson in the finals of the ONE Flyweight World Grand Prix in 2019. He's gone 2-2 in 4 bouts because.
Now nearly precisely 7 years after they initially satisfied, Moraes and Kingad battle once again in the 2nd ONE Championship card in the United States in 2024 following an occasion set up in Denver in September.
