Watch: Jaw-Dropping Finishes From ONE Championship’s Second Prime Video Event

ONE on Prime Video 2: Xiong vs. Lee III certainly lived up to the hype when it went down at the Singapore Indoor Stadium last Friday, 30 September.

ONE Women’s Strawweight World Champion “The Panda” Xiong Jing Nan defended her strap for a jaw-dropping seventh time in a heated trilogy bout with Atomweight queen “Unstoppable” Angela Lee in the evening’s main event.

And in the co-main event, Mikey “Darth Rigatoni” Musumeci triumphed over longtime foe Cleber Sousa to become the inaugural ONE Flyweight Submission Grappling World Champion. 

Both of those matchups went the distance, but the spectacle was peppered with impressive finishes in the lead-up to the headlining battles, and here they are in no particular order.

Ilya Freymanov Starches Martin Nguyen In His Promotional Debut

Ilya Freymanov took out former two-division ONE World Champion Martin “The Situ-Asian” Nguyen with an impressive first-round TKO in their featherweight MMA battle to announce his arrival on the global stage.

The gutsy Russian didn’t need any time to settle in as he battered #3-ranked featherweight contender Nguyen from all angles with accurate punches. 

“The Situ-Asian” was taken aback by the intensity straight out of the gate, but he traded fire with fire. Then, Just as the Aussie-Vietnamese star regained momentum and decided to throw his trademark overhand, Freymanov countered with a stinging knee.

The debuting warrior advanced with a crushing right fist from there that dropped his rival. 

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Nguyen turtled up on the canvas, and Freymanov moved in for the kill with more punches and knees, forcing referee Olivier Coste to halt the tie at 3:33 of the opening frame. 

Halil Amir Puts Timofey Nastyukhin To Sleep

Halil Amir also made a splash in his first outing in the ONE Circle at ONE on Prime Video 2 by taking out #3-ranked lightweight contender Timofey Nastyukhin. 

The Turkish star had to overcome a barrage of attacks from his ruthless rival in the opening stanza, but once he found the method to thread past Nastyukhin’s defense, it was all one-way traffic.

Amir caught the Russian with a pair of flush heavy right hands that sent him on wobbly feet.

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Sensing the finish, the promotional newcomer followed up with a plethora of heavy attacks, eventually causing referee Herb Dean to call a stop to the contest at 58 seconds of the second frame.

Rade Opacic’s Huge Combination Knocks Out Giannis Stoforidis

Rade Opacic returned to the winner’s column in emphatic fashion thanks to a massive knockout on Giannis Stoforidis in the opening bout of ONE’s second fight card on Prime Video.

Both men made their intentions known in the first three minutes of the ONE Heavyweight Kickboxing World Grand Prix alternate bout by trading wild and heavy leather, but none of the thumping shots seemed to shake either warrior.

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However, that all changed at the 1:52 mark of the second frame.

The hulking Serb upped his output, and during one exchange, he unleashed a precise cross-hook-cross combination that sent Stoforidis to the canvas, where he stayed.