ONE Championship

In August 2016, ONE Championship announced a grappling tournament that followed IBJJF no-gi rules with Shinya Aoki, Angela Lee and Michelle Nicolini among the participants[16]

In May 2017, a "grappling super fight" with submission-only rules was held between Shinya Aoki and Garry Tonon in Singapore.[17] Shortly after, Eddie Bravo announced that he had been contacted by One to take part in a similar grappling super fight against Sakuraba[18]

In January 2018, another submission-only "grappling super fight" was held between Shinya Aoki and Marat Gafurov.[19]

In May 2021, ONE Championship announced that Gordon Ryan was due to debut in ONE Championship in a grappling match with Shinya Aoki to be held in August of that year.[20] The match was later postponed by Ryan due to health issues.

In February 2022, it was announced that Mei Yamaguchi would face Danielle Kelly and Reinier de Ridder would face André Galvão in a pair of grappling matches on March 26, 2022, in an event to celebrate the organization's tenth anniversary.[21][22]

In November 2017, it was announced that ONE VP Rich Franklin would head up a competition called the ONE Warrior Series, searching for up-and-coming martial artists in Asia. The prize is a six-figure contract with the organization, with the winner determined based on their performance instead of victories.[23]

On 12 February 2018, ONE Championship announced the establishment of the "ONE Super Series", which would feature kickboxing and Muay Thai bouts.[24] The first event that featured bouts under Muay Thai and kickboxing rules was ONE: Heroes of Honor in Manila on 20 April 2018.[25] The promotion signed notable names such as Giorgio Petrosyan, Nong-O Gaiyanghadao and Fabio Pinca to feature on the bill. Since the inception of ONE Super Series, some events have used a five-roped ring, instead of the ONE circular cage, which had been used exclusively up until 2018. The ONE Super Series kickboxing bouts adopt the oriental ruleset.[26] As of 2020, ONE Super Series kickboxing bouts use boxing gloves. In ONE Super Series Muay Thai bouts, open-finger 4 oz gloves are used.[27] The first ONE event to consist entirely of ONE Super Series contests was ONE Championship: Immortal Triumph in Ho Chi Minh City on 6 September 2019.[28]

In July 2018, WBC Super flyweight world champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai would make the next defense of his belt at a ONE Championship event in his home city of Bangkok, Thailand.[29] In what would be their first boxing match to be promoted, ONE collaborated with Nakornloung Promotion to put the matchup together with Iran Diaz. The match would headline ONE Championship: Kingdom of Heroes on 6 October 2018.

In November 2018, ONE announced a partnership with Dentsu, Razer, and Singtel to launch its new esports series in 2019.[30] ONE Esports was then officially introduced later that year with Carlos Alimurung as its CEO.[31][32]

In January 2019, ONE entered into a partnership with Shooto, according to which Shooto champions would be give a contract with ONE Championship.[33]

They entered into a similar partnership with Indonesian promotion One Pride MMA in December 2020.[34]

On 13 February 2020, ONE announced the launch of the "Infinity" series, events consisting of at least three championship fights and a minimum of 12 world champions.[35]

In June 2021, ONE announced a new partnership with Tinder to matchmake gamers to each other.[36] The new partnership included a slew of content offerings, as well as new features on Tinder's app for esports and gaming fans.[37]

It has been broadcast by RCTI (2015–2017), GTV (2012, repeat only for 2020–2021), iNews (2015–2017, repeat only for 2020–present), Indosiar (delayed in 2013–2014), SCTV (delayed in 2018–2022), Vidio (live in 2018–present), Netverse (live in 2022–present) and NET. (2022–present) in Indonesia,[38] MediaCorp Channel 5 (temporarily) in Singapore,[39] ABS-CBN S+A/TV5/One Sports/LIGA Channel in the Philippines,[40] MyTV in Cambodia,[41] Astro Arena, TV9[42] and RTM[43] in Malaysia, Workpoint TV and Thairath TV in Thailand, TV Tokyo and AbemaTV in Japan.

On 30 January 2012, they signed a 10-year deal with ESPN Star Sports.[44] ONE made its PPV debut at ONE Fighting Championship: Rise of Kings via iN DEMAND, Avail-TVN, DirecTV and Dish.[45]

Since May 2018, ONE events have been broadcast live and free on both their dedicated apps and YouTube channel in select locations.[46]

On 11 December 2018, ONE announced a three-year broadcast deal with Turner Sports in the United States that will bring live events to streaming service B/R Live and recap shows on TNT.[47][48]

On 23 March 2019 ONE announced it had signed a multi-year deal with Star Sports in India.[49] On 19 September 2019, it was announced that sports streaming service FITE TV would broadcast the promotion's two-part, 100th numbered event, Century.[50]

In November 2020, ONE announced a partnership with Facebook to distribute ONE Championship content on Facebook Watch and IGTV.[51]

On April 27, 2022, ONE announced a five-year distribution deal Amazon Prime Video, with Amazon to exclusively broadcast at least 12 events annually during prime time hours in the United States and Canada.[52][53]

ONE Championship uses the Global Martial Arts Rule Set, which "blends a combination of Best Practices from Asian and Non-Asian Rules".[54] Matches vary in maximum length, depending on whether it is for a championship title. In all fights, each round can be no longer than five minutes. Most fights have a maximum of three rounds, with one minute breaks in between, but championship matches have a max of five rounds.

Victory is attained by one of the following ways; knockout, submission, verbal tapout, technical knockout by referee stoppage, request for stoppage by cornerman, or by judges' decision.[54] Three judges score the bout in its entirety, not round-by-round, utilizing the following criteria in descending order of importance:[54]

• Near Knockout or Submission
• Damage (Internal, Accumulated, Superficial)
• Striking combinations and cage generalship (Ground control, Superior positioning)
• Earned takedowns or takedown defense
• Aggression

Illegal targets for strikes are the groin, throat, trachea, and the back of the head, neck or spine. Stomps to the head of a grounded opponent, small joint manipulation, head butting, hair pulling, eye gouging, orifice insertion, spitting, and grabbing onto the cage fence are also illegal. Takedowns must not result in "spiking or pile driver[s] to the head or neck".[55] Soccer kicks to the head of a grounded opponent were previously legal in ONE, initially via an "open attack" rule, which required fighters to get permission from the referee to use them.[56] In September 2012, the company adopted the Pride Fighting Championships' rules on the technique, allowing fighters to use soccer kicks without asking for permission from the referee.[56] Soccer kicks were banned entirely in August 2016 as part of the company's worldwide expansion plans. Sityodtong stated that despite studies showing that soccer kicks are the same as a normal head kick to a standing opponent because you cannot generate any more pivotal force, the technique invites "bad publicity".[57]

#	Event	Date	Venue	Location	Attendance
1	ONE Championship: Eersel vs. Sadikovic	22 April 2022	Singapore Indoor Stadium	Singapore

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Its leadership and executive team are its chairman Chatri Sityodtong whilst the CEO of International is Victor Cui who used to be a senior executive at ESPN Star Sports. Matches are made by matchmaker and Vice President of Operations, Matt Hume.

In 2014, Rich Franklin became its vice president. The referees include Olivier Coste, Mohamad Sulaiman, Yuji Shimada, Kemp Cheng and Justin Brown for MMA matches, and Atsushi Onari and Elias Dolaptsis for ONE Super Series matches.

The regular colour commentators for the television broadcast are Michael Schiavello[65] and Mitch Chilson, although Josh Thomson, Jason Chambers, Bas Rutten and Renzo Gracie have appeared as guest commentators. Dominic Lau is the cage announcer. Nam En Ju, Siena, Lee Ji Na, Kim Ji Na, Chun Se Ra, Eun Ji Ye and Choi Ye Rok are ring girls.[66]

Fighter salaries in Asia are not publicly disclosed, unlike in the US, so information about ONE FC's fighter purses is not in the public domain. However, in January 2014 Ben Askren revealed that he was being paid a minimum of US$50,000 per fight as well as a US$50,000 win bonus.[67]

A cash bonus known as the "ONE Warrior bonus" was introduced on 9 July 2014 and implemented for the first time at ONE Fighting Championship: War of Dragons on 11 July 2014.

An award of US$50,000 is given out at the end of certain events to the fighter who impresses the most in terms of:

• thrilling the fans with exciting action;
• demonstrating an incredible warrior spirit;
• exhibiting amazing skill, and;
• delivering a phenomenal finish.

Victor Cui stated that bonuses would be handed out on a discretionary basis: "For every event, the bar will be very, very high. If a few fighters impress me, then I will hand out the bonus to a few fighters. If no one impresses me, then no one will get it. Extraordinary performance deserves extraordinary rewards. Ordinary performances deserve ordinary rewards."[68]

The "ONE Warrior bonus" of $50,000 was re-introduced in January 2022, with a minimum of one bonus and a maximum of five bonuses awarded at each event.[69]