ONE Championship: Full Circle line-up features three title fights, debut of David Branch
- Reinier de Ridder will defend middleweight title against welterweight champ Kiamrian Abbasov headliner
- Event will also feature return of Aung La N Sang in trilogy bout with Vitaly Bigdash
The planned line-up for the upcoming ONE Championship: Full Circle event has been revealed.
The Asian martial arts organisation dropped the line-up for the event, scheduled for February 25 at Singapore Indoor Stadium, early on Friday morning.
The card will be topped by a rare champion versus champion bout, as Reinier de Ridder (14-0), who holds the ONE light heavyweight and middleweight belts, defends the latter strap against welterweight champion Kiamrian Abbasov (23-4).
The bout will be De Ridder’s first since he captured the middleweight and light heavyweight titles in back-to-back victories over Aung La N Sang, with a first-round submission in October 2020 and a unanimous decision in April 2021.
Kyrgyzstan’s Abbasov will be returning from an even longer lay-off than his Dutch rival, having not fought since he defended the welterweight title with a fourth-round TKO win over James Nakashima in November 2020. This will be his first foray up to the ONE middleweight division.
Full Circle will be co-headlined by a light heavyweight kick-boxing title fight between champion Roman Kryklia of Ukraine and Dutch-Turkish challenger Murat Aygun. It will also feature a third title fight, as featherweight Muay Thai champion Petchmorakot Petchyindee of Thailand takes on No 1 contender Jamal Yusupov, from Russia.
The card will also feature the return of former two-division champ Aung La N Sang of Myanmar (27-12), who will take on Russia’s Vitaly Bigdash (11-2). It will be the third time the two middleweights have clashed, after a decision win apiece in 2017.
Other highlights of the Full Circle line-up include the ONE Championship debut of former UFC middleweight contender David Branch (22-7), who will return from a lay-off of more than three years to take on Brazil’s Leandro Ataides (11-5).
See the complete line-up for the ONE: Full Circle event, which is subject to change, below:
ONE: Full Circle main card
ONE middleweight world championship
(C) Reinier de Ridder vs Kiamrian Abbasov
Middleweight: 84kg – 93kg
ONE light heavyweight kickboxing world championship
(C) Roman Kryklia vs Murat Aygun
Light Heavyweight: 93.1kg – 102.1kg
ONE featherweight Muay Thai world championship
(C) Petchmorakot Petchyindee vs (1) Jamal Yusupov
Featherweight: 65.9kg – 70.3kg
Mixed martial arts
Aung La N Sang vs Vitaly Bigdash
Middleweight: 84kg – 93.0kg
Kick-boxing
Enriko Kehl vs (5) Tayfun Ozcan
Featherweight: 65.9kg – 70.3kg
Mixed Martial Arts
(4) Fabricio Andrade vs Jeremy Pacatiw
Bantamweight: 61.3kg – 65.8kg
ONE: Full Circle lead card
Mixed martial arts
Leandro Ataides vs David Branch
Middleweight: 84.0kg – 93.0kg
Kick-boxing
Guto Inocente vs Bruno Susano
Heavyweight: 102.2kg – 120.2kg
Mixed martial arts
Zebaztian Kadestam vs Valmir Da Silva
Welterweight: 77.2kg – 83.9kg
Muay Thai
Chris Shaw vs Vladimir Kuzmin
Bantamweight: 61.3kg – 65.8kg
Muay Thai
Diandra Martin vs Smilla Sundell
Catchweight: 58.0kg
Mixed martial arts
Yuri Simoes vs Daniyal Zainalov
Middleweight: 84.0kg – 93.0kg
Kick-boxing
Jiduo Yibu vs Daniel Puertas
Flyweight: 56.8kg – 61.2kg
Mixed martial arts
Rahul Raju vs Drex Zamboanga
Lightweight: 70.4kg – 77.1kg
