ONE Championship has constructed a wholesome secure of stars and family names due to their various fight sports activities choices starring alongside MMA.
Chief amongst them is Japanese legend Shiyna Aoki who has had 21 fights below the promotion’s umbrella for the higher a part of the previous 10 years and claimed the ONE light-weight MMA world championship a number of occasions.
“Tobikan Judan” could have one other alternative so as to add one other win to his resume when he steps contained in the ONE Circle towards American star Sage Northcutt come January 28 at ONE 165 at Ariake Area in Tokyo.
Whereas the mere point out of his title strikes concern within the hearts of his foes, there are newer followers of the game who could also be unfamiliar with him, and ONE Championship determined to place collectively a few of his finest submission finishes after logging 30 of them all through his total profession.
Followers shared a few of their reactions to the compilation:
“He’s Shinya Aoki. Greatest MMA grappler by far.”
“Grappling is lethal, very a lot so.”
“This man nonetheless preventing at this degree”
“Shiyna [has been] preventing for thus a few years too! What’s his document, 1000-20?”
“He’s all the time been that dude even in his Delight days, he simply appears to be like like glue as soon as he units in his submission particularly if it’s a choke.”
Sage Northcutt will get a once-in-a-lifetime alternative
Although there’s a ton of consideration on Aoki for his nice resume, Northcutt himself had been eager to face Aoki for fairly a while after their April 2021 bout was scrapped attributable to “Tremendous” Sage feeling the lingering results of COVID-19.
Northcutt beforehand spoke about having an MMA-submission grappling particular guidelines crossover with Aoki, and whereas will probably be full-on MMA for his or her January 28 conflict, the Sacramento, California native is aware of he might want to pull out all of the stops to get the win.