ONE Championship two-division champ Anatoliy Malykhin is looking to make mixed martial arts history in March.
IT'S OFFICIAL 🚨 Two-division king Anatoly Malykhin challenges Reinier de Ridder for the ONE Middleweight MMA World Championship in the main event of ONE 166: Qatar 🔥 Can the Russian superstar make history and become ONE's first three-division World Champion or will"The Dutch…
Per the organization via press release on Thursday, Malykhin , the reigning champion in ONE’s heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions, will be dropping down to its middleweight category to vie for another strap. In doing so, he will rematchWhen they first met at One on Prime Video 5, Malykhin held the interim heavyweight belt—a title he later unified by dominatingmonths later—while de Ridder possessed the crowns at both the 205- and 225-pound divisions.
De Ridder will look to defend his 205-pound strap to bounce back from his lone professional loss. The Dutch standout was previously undefeated in seven outings with ONE, including five finishes as he moved up and down divisions. Of note, he quickly submittedin October 2020 to win the 205-pound throne, and he chased Aung La up in weight 20 pounds to take his second belt from him six months later.
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