ONE Mild Heavyweight Kickboxing World Champion Kryklia meets Azizpour for the third time general, with their first two conferences cut up 1-1 previous to them signing with ONE. The duo will get to settle their trilogy on the most important stage of all with the event’s silver belt on the road.
Kryklia moved as much as heavyweight at ONE 161 in September for the Grand Prix semifinals after a three-fight run at mild heavyweight, the place he received the inaugural ONE Mild Heavyweight Kickboxing World Title.
The Ukrainian prolonged his successful run to 4 and booked his place within the finals, knocking out Brazilian veteran Guto Inocente simply 52 seconds into the primary spherical within the Grand Prix semis.
Kryklia has remained undefeated since his defeat to Azizpour of their first assembly again in 2018.
Azizpour booked his place within the ultimate on the identical evening, taking a dominant resolution win over Brazil’s Bruno Chaves. With the win, the 34-year-old improved to 3-0 within the Circle, following a choice win over Anderson Silva and a TKO win over Dutchman Ismael Londt.
Azizpour additionally has not tasted defeat since his final encounter with Kryklia again in 2019.
Beforehand introduced matches for the cardboard embrace a most important occasion tussle for the ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Title, as champion Hiroki Akimoto places his belt on the road in opposition to harmful Thai Petchtanong Petchfergus.
The remainder of the cardboard is plagued by massive names, together with Myanmar famous person Aung La N Sang and Japanese legends Yushin Okami and Shinya Aoki.
ONE 163: Akimoto vs. Petchtanong Principal Card
1. ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Championship Bout: Hiroki Akimoto (c) vs. Petchtanong Petchfergus
2. ONE Heavyweight Grand Prix Remaining: Roman Kryklia vs. Iraj Azizpour
3. Middleweight Bout: Yushin Okami vs. Aung La N Sang
4. Atomweight Bout: Itsuki Hirata vs. Ham Search engine marketing Hee
5. Light-weight Bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Saygid Izagakhmaev
6. Flyweight Bout: Yuya Wakamatsu vs. Woo Sung Hoon