ONE Championship: Dangal Preview and Predictions
May 11, 2021
After two weeks without an event, ONE Championship returns with a stacked card of four MMA bouts and one Muay Thai fight.
ONE Championship: Dangal goes down on Saturday, May 15, at 6 a.m. ET inside of the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore. The event features young prospects, a must-see Muay Thai bout, and the return of heavyweight champion Brandon Vera.
Vera originally joined ONE in 2014 after a UFC career that featured all of the ups and downs the fight game offers. “The Truth” came to ONE with the hopes of reinventing himself and benefiting from the change in scenery.
Brandon Vera Breaks Down Arjan Bhullar s Game Plan Ahead of Heavyweight Title Defense
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Published May 10, 2021, 5:34 PM
Arjan Bhullar (left) and Brandon Vera (Photos from ONE Championship)
ONE Championship heavyweight contender Arjan Bhullar is eyeing no less than being India’s first mixed martial arts champion once he clashes with reigning king Brandon Vera in the Circle.
Bhullar and Vera are set to lock horns for the heavyweight title bout in ONE: Dangal at the Singapore Indoor Stadium this Saturday, May 15.
“Being a world champion is the most important to me and the fact that I have the ability to make history and be the first [MMA champion] in India is very, very important,” said Bhullar, a Canadian of Indian descent, who holds a 10-1 record.
Ritu banking on superior wrestling to get past Bi Nguyen
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10 May 2021, 19:18 GMT+10
Singapore, May 10 (ANI): In her upcoming bout against experienced veteran Bi Killer Bee Nguyen, Indian wrestling superstar Ritu Phogat will be relying on the skills that got her to the world s largest martial arts organisation in the first place.
Ritu is scheduled to face Nguyen at ONE: DANGAL, a tape-delayed event from the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore that airs on May 15. The Indian Tigress has not made her game plan heading into this fight a secret. The 26-year-old will be looking to take Nguyen down and finish her on the mat.
Published May 8, 2021, 9:29 PM
ONE heavyweight champion Brandon Vera (in red sando) with team Sanford MMA (Photo from Brandon Vera’s Instagram account)
Under the tutelage of coach Henri Hooft, Vera had trained alongside ONE Championship stars and forrmer world champions Aung La N Sang and Martin Nguyen in preparation for his much-awaited comeback in the Circle.
“Making this move to Sanford MMA and making this commitment, it’s taken a lot of stress away from me as an athlete,” Vera, who holds a 16-8 record, told ONE Championship.
“I can just concentrate on being a student of the game and trying to catch up to everyone else in the room. I don’t have to worry about anything. I just have to make sure that I can finish practice and that I’m being a good training partner.”
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