{"id":191067,"date":"2018-11-25T02:52:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T07:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=191067"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T21:02:08","slug":"pinoy-fighters-win-big-in-one-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/25\/pinoy-fighters-win-big-in-one-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy fighters win big in ONE championship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eduard Folayang reclaimed the erstwhile vacant ONE lightweight belt after beating Singaporean opponent Amir Khan in the co-main event of ‘ONE: Conquest of Champions’, held at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay on Friday night (November 23, 2018).PNA Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Despite a two-year layoff, Brandon Vera showed on Friday night that he can still pack a punch and still be the heavyweight champion.<\/p>\n

Vera made a triumphant return to ONE Championship by knocking out Mauro Cerilli in the main event of \u201cONE: Conquest of Champions\u201d, held at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay.<\/p>\n

Vera needed barely a minute to finish off Cerilli. Cerilli missed out on a huge right hook, and Vera capitalized on it by connecting on a left hook of his own that sent the former down for good, forcing the referee to stop the contest at the 1:04 mark of the very first round.<\/p>\n

Vera moves up to 21-6 overall.<\/p>\n

Back as lightweight champ<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eduard Folayang is a world mixed martial arts champion again.<\/p>\n

Folayang reclaimed the erstwhile vacant ONE lightweight belt after beating Singaporean opponent Amir Khan in the co-main event of ONE.<\/p>\n

A year after he lost the belt to Martin Nguyen, who eventually relinquished it right at the same venue, Folayang took back the belt with an impressive performance against Khan.<\/p>\n

Folayang began taking over in Round 2, foiling Khan’s aerial strike and converting it into a takedown, even going on a ground-and-pound action.<\/p>\n

He again took down Khan in Round 3 while aggravating a cut under the latter’s right eye, which slowed him down the rest of the way. Folayang eventually won via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Folayang became the fourth member of Team Lakay to win a ONE Championship belt this year, joining straw-weight champ Joshua Pacio, flyweight champ Geje Eustaquio, and bantamweight champ Kevin Belingon.<\/p>\n

Banario edges Indian rival<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honorio Banario bounced back from his stinging defeat against Amir Khan last September with a victory over India’s Rahul Raju in one of the matches.<\/p>\n

Banario survived Raju’s ground game and even came close to a submission in some occasions before taking the unanimous decision win.<\/p>\n

He delivered the crisper strikes on Raju in Round 1, but it was his newfound brilliance on the ground that made the difference in the last two rounds.<\/p>\n

Banario got out easily off Raju’s early Round 2 takedown, and after some more strikes, got two chances at submitting Raju via armbar that the latter survived.<\/p>\n

Raju got another chance at turning the tides early into Round 3 as he scored another quick takedown on Banario.<\/p>\n

However, Banario once again got out of the takedown and even delivered a rear naked choke on Raju, only that the latter was just saved by the bell.<\/p>\n

Miado stops Chinese foe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another Pinoy fighter, Jeremy Miado added one more name to his knockout list in Chinese fighter Peng Xue Wen, delivering the finish early into the second round of their fight.<\/p>\n

After a nip-and-tuck Round 1, Miado connected on a left hook to Peng’s head that rocked the latter. Miado then followed it with a right hook that sent Peng down.<\/p>\n

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Peng tried to bring Miado to the ground to no avail. The latter delivered a right uppercut to complete the finish at the 34-second mark of Round 2.<\/p>\n

Bactol falls to Fujisawa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Rockie Bactol failed to hold on as he fell prey to Akihiro Fujisawa.<\/p>\n

In a battle between the former competitors of the reality show, One Warrior Series, Bactol came just close to surviving Fujisawa’s ground game, bringing the fight to the scorecards.<\/p>\n

However, Fujisawa found an opening to strike his ground-and-pound game on Bactol, forcing Referee Olivier Coste to end the match with only 18 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

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Bactol actually had a good start, but Fujisawa’s ground game proved to be brilliant in the rest of Round 1, even coming close to a leg submission.<\/p>\n

Fujisawa’s dominance continued in Round 2 before he went for the finish late in Round 3.<\/p>\n

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Brazilian downs ex-heavyweight title contender<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brazil’s Alexandre Machado made a huge recovery in the second round to beat Japan’s Hideki Sekine.<\/p>\n

Machado turned things around after Sekine, Brandon Vera’s last challenger for the ONE heavyweight belt, got his ground game going in Round 1 and forced him to concede after some ground-and-pound action in the next five minutes.<\/p>\n

Sekine quickly used his brilliance in the grappling game, taking down Machado four times in a little over two minutes to start the contest.<\/p>\n

However, Machado kept his poise to prevent the submission defeat.<\/p>\n

In Round 2, Machado connected on three left hooks to the head of Sekine that shook the latter up. He eventually sent Sekine down and used the ground-and-pound on him, forcing Referee Olivier Coste to stop the contest at the round\u2019s 1:44 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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