ONE Championship revealed its colossal foremost occasion for ONE on Prime Video 5. Shining brightly on the marquee would be the return of ONE Middleweight and Gentle Heavyweight World Champion Reinier De Ridder, defending his mild heavyweight gold in opposition to interim ONE Heavyweight World Champion Anatoly Malykhin. The battle of undefeated champions will go down in Manila on Friday, December 2, on the Mall of Asia Enviornment.
🏆 UNDEFEATED WORLD CHAMP 🆚 UNDEFEATED WORLD CHAMP 🏆 Two-division king Reinier de Ridder faces his greatest check up to now as Interim Heavyweight World Champion Anatoly Malykhin strikes right down to mild heavyweight to problem for his crown in the primary occasion of ONE on Prime Video 5! pic.twitter.com/IdSDiIwpCS
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De Ridder will step contained in the Circle for the primary time since defending his middleweight crown in opposition to Kiamrian Abbasov. The Dutchman holds an ideal 16-0 document and has been untouchable since arriving in ONE. De Ridder has defended the middleweight title twice, however the matchup with Malykhin will mark his first mild heavyweight protection.
“The Dutch Knight” has at all times referred to as his shot. First, it was for middleweight and lightweight heavyweight supremacy, however then he turned his consideration towards the heavyweight division. Though this is not going to be for the heavyweight gold, it is going to be in opposition to a heavyweight titleholder. De Ridder could make an enormous assertion with a win and additional his quest to grow to be the first-ever three-division World Champion.
However taking out Malykhin is not going to be simple. The Russian has a robust wrestling base that would enable him to maintain the motion standing in opposition to the rangy Dutchman. If that occurs, Malykhin’s energy may very well be the distinction. The interim ONE Heavyweight World Champion has brutalized opponents along with his energy up to now, and he hopes to proceed to take action as a way to make himself a two-division king.
The large matchup of undefeated stars will assist ONE spherical out the 2022 marketing campaign in a serious means. One of many sport’s most spectacular undefeated athletes will go away Manila with a mark in the suitable facet of the column. De Ridder and Malykhin have by no means shied away from a problem, and their assembly on December 2 will check each males like by no means earlier than.
