2021 in ONE Championship

The following fighters won the ONE Championship year-end awards for 2021 • ONE Championship MMA Fighter of the Year 2021: Ok Rae Yoon • ONE Championship MMA Female Fighter of the Year 2021: Stamp Fairtex • ONE Championship MMA Fight for the Year: Dagi Arslanaliev vs. Timofey Nastyukhin • ONE Championship MMA Knockout of the Year 2021: Adriano Moraes against Demetrious Johnson (ONE 132: ONE on TNT 1) • ONE Championship Submission of the Year 2021: Shinya Aoki against James Nakashima (ONE 126: Unbreakable) • ONE Super Series Fighter of the Year 2021: Superbon Banchamek • ONE Super Series Fight of the Year 2021: Rodtang Jitmuangnon vs. Danial Williams (ONE 132: ONE on TNT 1) • ONE Super Series Knockout of the Year 2021: Superbon Banchamek against Giorgio Petrosyan (ONE 144: First Strike) • ONE Super Series Female Fighter of the Year 2021: Janet Todd == The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition ==

Chatri Sityodtong announces a ONE Championship edition of The Apprentice who will feature 16 contestants who will be competing for a $250,000 prize and a one-year contract to work for ONE (as well as becoming the chief of staff). Guest Athletes • Angela Lee • Ben Askren • Brandon Vera • Demetrious Johnson • Georges St-Pierre • Renzo Gracie • Rich Franklin • Ritu Phogat • Sage Northcutt • Xiong Jing Nan == List of events ==

ONE Championship ONE on TNT Road to ONE == Grand Prix ==

2021 Kickboxing Featherweight Grand Prix ONE Kickboxing Featherweight Grand Prix bracket 2021 Women's Atomweight Grand Prix Background As the reigning ONE Atomeweight champion Angela Lee was unable to defend her title, due to becoming pregnant, ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong announced that an atomweight Grand Prix would be held to determine the next title challenger. The eight participants of the tournament were revealed on February 24, 2021. They included the former Rizin, Road FC and Jewels Atomweight champion Seo Hee Ham, the #1 ranked Denice Zamboanga, the #2 ranked Meng Bo, the former ONE Kickboxing and Muaythai Atomeweight champion Stamp Fairtex, as well as the non-ranked Ritu Phogat, Itsuki Hirata, Alyse Anderson and Alyona Rassohyna. A bout between Ritu Phogat and Bi Nguyen took place at ONE Championship: Dangal for a spot in the Grand Prix. Nguyen won the close bout via split decision and Phogat was removed from the Grand Prix. Her place was taken by Julie Mezabarba and later Grace Cleveland. Phogat Rejoin Women's Atomweight World Grand Prix. The quarterfinals are expected to take place at ONE Championship: Empower which was initially scheduled to be held on May 28, 2021, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second round of the grand prix will be determined by the fan vote. ONE Women's Atomweight Grand Prix bracket • Julie Mezabarba replaced injured Seo Hee Ham at the semi-finals. • Jenelyn Olsim replaced injured (but she was sick four days before that fight) Itsuki Hirata at the semi-finals. ==Title fights==

== ONE Championship: Unbreakable ==

ONE Championship: Unbreakable (also known as ONE Championship 126) was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship on January 22, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Background This event featured a kickboxing title fights. In the headline attraction, the reigning ONE Kickboxing Bantamweight Champion Alaverdi Ramazanov will defend his title for the first time against Capitan Petchyindee Academy. The co-main event of the evening was supposed to feature a title bout between the ONE Kickboxing Lightweight Champion Regian Eersel and Mustapha Haida, but it was reported that Haida has been forced out of the bout due to an undisclosed injury. The card also feature a lightweight bout between the former ONE Lightweight Champion #5 ranked Shinya Aoki and the former LFA Welterweight Champion and ONE Welterweight World Title challenger James Nakashima. Serbian heavyweight Rade Opacic was set to faces the promotional newcomer Patrick Schmid of Switzerland in a heavyweight kickboxing bout. However, a week before the event, Schmid withdrew from the bout, reportedly because one of his corner men has COVID-19. He was replaced by the promotional newcomer, Bruno Susano. A strawweight bout between Hexigetu and Lito Adiwang was expected to take place at this event. However, Hexigetu pulled out a week before the event because his home province of Hebei, China, was put into lockdown following a recent COVID-19 spike. He was replaced by the reigning Deep Strawweight Champion Namiki Kawahara. Results == ONE Championship: Unbreakable 2 ==

ONE Championship: Unbreakable 2 (also known as ONE Championship 127) was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship on January 22, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.It was first broadcast on January 29, 2021. Background The event featured the former Cage Warriors Heavyweight Champion Mauro Cerilli who made his fourth ONE appearance against the promotional newcomer Abdulbasir Vagabov in the event headliner. In the co-main event the former Shooto Featherweight Champion Daichi Takenaka moved back to 61 kg to face the former Jungle Fight Interim Flyweight Champion Ivanildo Delfino. Senegalese wrestler Oumar Kane made his debut against the 4-time Muay Thai champion Alain Ngalani. Results == ONE Championship: Unbreakable 3 ==

ONE Championship: Unbreakable 3 (also known as ONE Championship 128) was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship on January 22, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. It was first broadcast on February 5, 2021. Background The event was headlined by former kickboxing and muay thai world champion Stamp Fairtex who faced Alyona Rassohyna. In the co-main event, a bantamweight bout between #2 ranked Shoko Sato who faces Fabrício Andrade. The remaining three bouts will feature a strawweight bout between Ryuto Sawada and Robin Catalan, a lightweight bout between Raul Raju and Ahmed Mujtaba, and a bantamweight fight between Tial Thang and Paul Lumihi. Han Zihao and Adam Noi will compete in the sole Muay Thai contest of the event. Results == Road to ONE: Young Guns ==

Road to ONE: Young Guns was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship in partnership with Shooto on February 22, 2021, at the Tsutaya O-East in Tokyo, Japan. Background The sixth edition of Road to ONE was the fourth edition held in Japan. A women's atomweight bout between Itsuki Hirata and Miku Nakamura served as the main event. Hikaru Yoshino was scheduled to face Tomohiro Hagino in a flyweight bout, but Hagino was forced off the card on February 9 with a rib injury. Yoshino instead faced Shohei Nose, who stepped in on short notice for this encounter. Results == ONE Championship: Fists Of Fury ==

ONE Championship: Fists Of Fury (also known as ONE Championship 129) was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship on February 26, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Background The event featured a kickboxing title fight between the reigning ONE Flyweight Kickboxing World Champion Ilias Ennahachi and #2-ranked contender Superlek Kiatmuu9 as the main event of the evening. In the co-main event #1-ranked lightweight kickboxer Giorgio Petrosyan faced the former Glory Lightweight Champion Davit Kiria who made his ONE Championship debut. Also on the card, ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon was set make his kickboxing debut against Alejandro Rivas. However, Rivas has been forced to withdraw from the contest due to health and safety protocols. Rivas was replaced by Tagir Khalilov, who stepped in on short notice for this encounter. In the opening bout Victoria Lee, the sister of Christian Lee and Angela Lee, made her MMA debut against Sunisa Srisen. Results == ONE Championship: Fists Of Fury 2 ==

ONE Championship: Fists Of Fury 2 (also known as ONE Championship 130) was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship on February 26, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. It was first broadcast on March 5, 2021. Background The event was headlined by a bout between two promotional newcomers, the Iranian Amir Aliakbari has met the undefeated South Korean Kang Ji Won. The co-main event also featured the promotional debut of Anatoly Malykhin against the former ONE Light Heavyweight World Title challenger Alexandre Machado. Results == ONE Championship: Fists Of Fury 3 ==

ONE Championship: Fists Of Fury 3 (also known as ONE Championship 131) was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship on February 26, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. It was first broadcast on March 19, 2021. Background Regian Eersel was scheduled to make the second defense of his ONE Kickboxing Lightweight title against Islam Murtazaev, but Murtazaev had to withdraw for undisclosed reasons, and was replaced by Mustapha Haida. Eersel and Haida were originally scheduled to fight at ONE: Unbreakable, before the fight fell through when haida suffered an injury. in the co-main event the ONE Kickboxing Atomweight champion Janet Todd has faced the former WBC Muaythai Bantamweight champion Alma Juniku, in a Muay thai bout. Results == Road to ONE: RUF 39 ==

Road to ONE: RUF 39 was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship in partnership with RUF Nation on March 13, 2021, at the Glendale Civic Center in Glendale, Arizona, United States. Background The event will feature a 16-man heavyweight tournament, with the champion receiving a US$100,000+ contract to compete in ONE Championship. Results == ONE on TNT 1 ==

ONE Championship on TNT 1 (also known as ONE Championship 132: Moraes vs. Johnson) was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship on April 7, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. This event marked the debut of ONE Championship on American television network TNT. Background The reigning ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon was scheduled to fight Jacob Smith in a non-title bout. The co-main event featured a title bout between the 2019 ONE Flyweight Grand Prix winner and former UFC Flyweight Champion Demetrious Johnson and the reigning ONE Flyweight champion Adriano Moraes. In the TNT opening bout, former UFC Lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez fought the former ONE Lightweight title challenger Iuri Lapicus. A rematch between Enriko Kehl and Chingiz Allazov was the sole kickboxing match scheduled for the event. The bout was previously scheduled for One on TNT 3., and Patrick Schmid against Rade Opacic in a kickboxing bout. However, Medhi Barghi and Rade Opacic were out of their respective bout due to health and safety protocols. Schmid and Kane have met in a short-notice MMA fight. Results == ONE on TNT 2 ==

{{Infobox MMA event ONE Championship on TNT 2 (also known as ONE Championship 133) was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship on April 7, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. It was first aired on April 14, 2021. Background The event was headlined by a title bout between the ONE Lightweight World Champion Christian Lee and Timofey Nastyukhin. Former ONE Featherweight champion Martin Nguyen was scheduled to fight against the #5 ranked Kim Jae Woong. However, due to health and safety protocols, Nguyen has not been cleared to compete and the bout has been removed from the card. A heavyweight bout between Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Marcus Almeida and Kang Ji Won was previously scheduled for ONE on TNT 2. However, Won pulled out of the fight due to undisclosed reasons and the bout was scrapped. They were replaced by an atomweight muay thai fight between the reigning ONE Kickboxing Atomweight champion Janet Todd and Anne Line Hogstad. Dustin Joynson was originally scheduled to headline the lead card against Islam Abasov, but the Russian has withdrawn from the contest for undisclosed reasons. Joynson will instead face the promotional newcomer Kirill Grishenko, who stepped in on short notice for this bout. The final preliminary fight was to be a muay thai bout between Pongsiri P.K.Saenchaimuaythaigym and Liam Harrison. The fight was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 situation in the UK. A bantamweight bout between Mitchell Chamale and Shuya Kamikubo replaced them. Jarred Brooks signed a contract with ONE Championship, and is expected to make his promotional debut against Lito Adiwang at this event. The fight was later postponed, as Adiwang tested positive for COVID-19, and was replaced by a flyweight bout between Kim Kyu Sung and Wang Shuo. Results == ONE on TNT 3 ==

{{Infobox MMA event ONE Championship on TNT 3 (also known as ONE Championship 134) was a combat sport event held by ONE Championship on April 7, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. It was first aired on April 21, 2021. Background The event was expected to headlined by a bantamweight fight between the John Lineker and promotional newcomer Stephen Loman. However, Loman would later withdraw from the card, as he tested positive for COVID-19, and was replaced by Troy Worthen. The co-main event saw a heavyweight bout between the Iranian Amir Aliakbari and Anatoly Malykhin. The fight was later replaced by a lightweight contest between former ONE Featherweight World Champion Marat Gafurov and Ok Rae-yoon. John Wayne Parr made his ONE debut against the former Glory champion Nieky Holzken. It will be Parr's first fight since November 2019. Two MMA fights were scheduled for the prelims: a flyweight bout between the #5 ranked Reece McLaren and the #4 ranked Yuya Wakamatsu. A rematch between Enriko Kehl and Chingiz Allazov was the scheduled for the event, Results == Road to ONE: Night of Warriors 17 ==

Road to ONE: Night of Warriors 17 was a kickboxing event held by ONE Championship in partnership with Night of Warriors on April 24, 2021, in Prague, Czech Republic. Background ONE Championship held a one night 4-man qualification tournament including Tomáš Hron, Mehmet Özer, Mohamed Amine and Cyril Cereyon. Results == Road to ONE: RUF 40 ==

Road to ONE: RUF 40 was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship in partnership with RUF Nation on April 25, 2021, at the Glendale Civic Center in Glendale, Arizona, United States. Background Results == ONE on TNT 4 ==

ONE Championship on TNT 4 (also known as ONE Championship 135: N Sang vs. De Ridder 2) was a Combat sport event held by ONE Championship on April 28, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Background The event was supposed to be headlined by a trilogy bout between the ONE Light Heavyweight Champion Aung La Nsang and the former ONE Middleweight title challenger Vitaly Bigdash. Bigdash later withdrew due to a failed COVID-19 test, and was replaced by Reinier de Ridder. A lightweight bout between Eduard Folayang and Yoshihiro Akiyama was expected for ONE on TNT 4. However, on April 3, Akiyama pulled out of the bout due to injuries sustained during his training camp. Shinya Aoki stepped in to face Folayang, Aoki was scheduled to fight Sage Northcutt in the opening bout of the main card,. but Northcutt withdrew due to lingering COVID-19 issues. Sovannahry Em later withdrew as she sustained an injury during a pre-bout training session, and was replaced by Courtney Martin. A flyweight Muay Thai match between Jonathan Haggerty and Elias Mahmoudi was scheduled for the prelims as well, but did not take place. As Ok won his fight Gafurov, he fought Alvarez in the co-main event. A muay thai bout between Jackie Buntan and Ekaterina Vandaryeva, as well as a heavyweight mixed martial arts bout between Oumar Kane and Kirill Grishenko were later added to the card. Results == ONE Championship: Dangal ==

ONE Championship: Dangal (also known as ONE 136: Vera vs. Bhullar) was a combat sport event held by ONE Championship on April 28, 2021, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. It was first aired on May 15, 2021. Background A ONE Heavyweight Championship bout between the current champion Brandon Vera and contender Arjan Bhullar served as the event headliner. The co-main event was a bantamweight muay thai bout, contested between Tawanchai P.K. Saenchaimuaythaigym and Sean Clancy. Undefeated atomweight Ritu Phogat faced Bi Nguyen. A catchweight bout contested by Gurdarshan Mangat and Rosham Mainam also took place at this event. The #4 ranked women's strawweight Ayaka Miura faced promotional newcomer Rayane Bastos in a 58 kg catchweight bout. Results == ONE Championship: Full Blast ==