ONE 171: Qatar has only just been announced but that hasn’t stopped ONE Championship from getting started on adding bouts to the fold.
On Thursday, 20 February, 2025, ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Champion Jonathan
Haggerty enjoyed a meteoric rise to bantamweight superstardom in 2023. He kicked things off in the division with a shocking knockout of former bantamweight Muay Thai king Nong-O Hama in April to claim the crown.
The following November, he added the division’s vacant kickboxing crown to his list with a thunderous stoppage of bantamweight MMA king Fabricio Andrade, becoming a two-sport ONE World Champion.
But after losing his Muay Thai crown to Thai megastar Superlek Kiatmoo9 this past September at ONE 168, his seven-fight winning streak came to a close. He’ll be eager to return to winning ways this February, but Wei will be determined to keep his man down.
One of China’s greatest strikers, “Demon Blade” showed his worth in his ONE debut this past March with a three-round blistering of former bantamweight kickboxing king Hiroki Akimoto in May, improving to a staggering 70-3 record.
As China’s first-ever K-1 World Champion, Wei would love to further enhance his legacy by beating one of the world’s best strikers for the ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Title at ONE 171.
Joshua Pacio and Jarred Brooks collide in trilogy to unify ONE Strawweight MMA World Championship at ONE 171: Qatar
A huge trilogy will also be taking place at ONE 171: Qatar when reigning strawweight MMA king Joshua Pacio and interim titleholder Jarred Brooks unify the gold.
Their first clash at ONE 164 in December 2022 saw Brooks pick Pacio apart across five rounds to become king. But a year later, a spike from Brooks just 52 seconds into their rematch saw the American disqualified and the World Title change hands.
Since then, Brooks established himself as interim king with a first-round submission of Gustavo Balart this past August, while Pacio continued to recover from a knee injury.
Now tied at one win apiece, the trilogy for the undisputed gold will settle the score once and for all.
Nearly a year after its captivating maiden voyage to Qatar, ONE Championship will make its highly anticipated return to the Middle Eastern country for ONE 171: Qatar, which will be broadcast live from the state-of-the-art Lusail Sports Arena on Thursday, February 20, 2025.
This blockbuster spectacle will feature ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Champion Jonathan “The General” Haggerty, who will defend his coveted gold for the first time. Standing across from him will be the #1-ranked contender, Wei Rui, a Chinese kickboxing megastar who is riding an astonishing 21-fight winning streak.
Also, reigning divisional king Joshua “The Passion” Pacio and interim titleholder Jarred “The Monkey God” Brooks will meet in a trilogy bout to unify the ONE Strawweight MMA World Championship.
Plus, several more global martial arts superstars and regional sensations will be added to the lineup in the weeks to come.
Anyone else watching right now?
The joys of losing my job last week lol
Let’s go Kade! Very impressive
Damn thanks for heads up, checking now!
Holy shit at Kade’s pace.
Jesus Phogat, learn some jiu jitsu. Terrible ground game for a wrestler.
Working but won’t miss Bibi last one.
Stacked free card.
Bibi retirement fight. Go Bibiano!!
Bellingon more tired than Bibi.
Great fight. Every fight between these two have been great
Refs in ONE interfere with the matches way too much! Let them fight and shut the fuck up!
Refs in ONE do not give grapplers any time to work or do their thing. 2 seconds of inaction and they start barking at the fighters. It is extremely distracting and takes my focus away from the fight.
Very poor showing from Nguyen… The referee ruined that fight for me honestly. Wish the refs in ONE would chill out and let them fight. It is so fucking distracting.
This is happening now?