2012 in ONE Championship

ONE Fighting Championship: Battle of Heroes
Information
Promotion	ONE Fighting Championship
Date	February 11, 2012
Venue	The BritAma Arena
City	North Jakarta, Indonesia
Attendance	4,371
Event chronology
ONE Fighting Championship: Champion vs. Champion ONE Fighting Championship: Battle of Heroes ONE Fighting Championship: War of the Lions

ONE Fighting Championship: Battle of Heroes (also known as ONE FC 2) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event took place on February 11, 2012 at The BritAma Arena in North Jakarta, Indonesia and was broadcast by MNC International.[1]

Background

This was the first event ONE held outside of Singapore.[2]

Results

ONE Fighting Championship: War of the Lions
Information
Promotion	ONE Fighting Championship
Date	March 31, 2012
Venue	Singapore Indoor Stadium
City	Kallang, Singapore
Attendance	7,714
Event chronology
ONE Fighting Championship: Battle of Heroes ONE Fighting Championship: War of the Lions ONE Fighting Championship: Destiny of Warriors

ONE Fighting Championship: War of the Lions (also known as ONE FC 3) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event took place on March 31, 2012 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.[3]

Background

The event marked the debut of Nicole Chua, believed to be Singapore's first ever professional female mixed martial artist.[4]

Results

Main card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Zorobabel Moreira	def.	Felipe Enomoto	Submission (armbar)	3	1:04
Featherweight	Tatsuya Kawajiri	def.	Donald Sanchez	Submission (triangle choke)	1	3:27
Lightweight	Ole Laursen	def.	Eduard Folayang	Decision (split)	3	5:00
Welterweight	Fabricio Monteiro	def.	Yuya Shirai	Decision (unanimous)	3	5:00
Catchweight (195lb)	Melvin Manhoef	vs.	Yoshiyuki Nakanishi	No contest	1	2:08	[lower-alpha 1]
Lightweight	Eddie Ng	def.	Jian Kai Chee	TKO (punches)	1	0:43
Preliminary Card
Bantamweight	Masakazu Imanari	def.	Kevin Belingon	Submission (reverse heel hook)	1	1:18
Women's Flyweight	Nicole Chua	def.	Jeet Toshi	Submission (rear naked choke)	1	2:07
Lightweight	Quek Kim Hock	def.	Major Overall	Technical submission (rear naked choke)	1	3:18
Bantamweight	Jiang Long Yun	def.	Yodsanan Sityodtong	Technical submission (rear naked choke)	1	3:28
Lightweight	Danny van Bergen	def.	Richie Whitson	Submission (armbar)	1	1:19

ONE Fighting Championship: Destiny of Warriors
Information
Promotion	ONE Fighting Championship
Date	June 23, 2012
Venue	Stadium Negara
City	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Attendance	8,153
Event chronology
ONE Fighting Championship: War of the Lions ONE Fighting Championship: Destiny of Warriors ONE Fighting Championship: Pride of a Nation

ONE Fighting Championship: Destiny of Warriors (also known as ONE FC 4) is a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event took place on June 23, 2012 at the 10,200 capacity Stadium Negara in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[5][6][7]

Background

Renato 'Babalu' Sobral made his debut for ONE at this event. Last time Sobral fought was against Dan Henderson at Strikeforce: Henderson vs. Babalu II in late 2010.[8][9][10]

Phil Baroni was expected to face Roger Huerta at this event, but due to losing a fight just three weeks before the event via TKO, ONE opted to remove him from the fight card rather than await on the Colorado Office of Boxing to confirm Baroni is on a medical suspension.[11]

Results

Main card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Cruiserweight	Renato Sobral	def.	Tatsuya Mizuno	Submission (armbar)	1	0:31
Welterweight	Zorobabel Moreira	def.	Roger Huerta	KO (soccer kick)	2	3:53
Bantamweight	Leandro Issa	def.	Masakazu Imanari	Decision (unanimous)	3	5:00
Welterweight	Adam Kayoom	def.	Gregor Gracie	Decision (unanimous)	3	5:00
Featherweight	Eric Kelly	def.	Bae Young Kwon	Decision (unanimous)	3	5:00
Preliminary card
Lightweight	Arnaud Lepont	def.	Brian Choi	Submission (rear naked choke)	3	1:38
Featherweight	Mitch Chilson	def.	AJ Lias Mansor	Submission (rear naked choke)	1	1:39
Welterweight	Marcos Escobar	def.	Rodrigo Praxedes	Submission (D'arce choke)	3	1:05
Lightweight	Peter Davis	def.	Kim Hock Quek	TKO (knees and punches)	1	0:55

ONE Fighting Championship: Pride of a Nation
Information
Promotion	ONE Fighting Championship
Date	August 31, 2012
Venue	Smart Araneta Coliseum
City	Quezon City, Philippines
Attendance	12,523
Event chronology
ONE Fighting Championship: Destiny of Warriors ONE Fighting Championship: Pride of a Nation ONE Fighting Championship: Rise of Kings

ONE Fighting Championship: Pride of a Nation (also known as ONE FC 5) took place on August 31, 2012 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Philippines. It was ONE's first event in the Philippines.

Background

Held in conjunction with the URCC, Pride of the Nation has been described as the biggest event in the history of Filipino MMA as 12,523 fans attended. The event featured three former UFC champions: Tim Sylvia, Andrei Arlovski and Jens Pulver.[12][13][14]

There were two controversial incidents at this event which involved the use of soccer kicks. Because of this, ONE will now allow their fighters to use them at any point in a fight from ONE FC: Rise of Kings. One incident was during the bout between Andrei Arlovski and Tim Sylvia. Arlovski knocked Sylvia down and then threw soccer kicks at his head. Everyone thought the referee had stopped the fight; he actually called time because he didn't call "open attack". When it was decided after a five-minute rest period for Sylvia that he could not continue, the fight resulted in a No Contest.[15] The other incident occurred during the fight between Shannon Wiratchai and Mitch Chilson, in which Wiratchai won. However, after a thorough review of the match days after the event, ONE officials decided that Wiratchai landed an illegal leg kick to a grounded Chilson in the second round and referee Moritaka Oshiro incorrectly called an end to the fight as he determined at that point that Chilson could not properly defend himself. The win for Wiratchai was reversed and the fight officially ruled as a No Contest.[16]

Results

ONE Fighting Championship: Rise of Kings
Information
Promotion	ONE Fighting Championship
Date	October 6, 2012
Venue	Singapore Indoor Stadium
City	Kallang, Singapore
Attendance	9,232
Event chronology
ONE Fighting Championship: Pride of a Nation ONE Fighting Championship: Rise of Kings ONE Fighting Championship: Return of Warriors

ONE Fighting Championship: Rise of Kings (also known as ONE FC 6) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event took place on October 6, 2012 at the 12,000 capacity Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.

Background

The event was supposed to crown three ONE champions in the Lightweight, Featherweight and Bantamweight divisions,[17] But due to Pay-Per-View time constraints, ONE has opted to move the Featherweight title fight later in the year.[18]

This event also held the first bouts for the ONE Bantamweight Grand Prix.[19]

ONE made its PPV debut via iN DEMAND, Avail-TVN, DirecTV and Dish.[20]

Following two controversial decisions at ONE FC: Pride of a Nation, ONE will now fully adopted the use of soccer kicks at any point in a fight from this event onwards.[21]

Results

Main card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Shinya Aoki	def.	Arnaud Lepont	Technical submission (triangle choke)	1	1:25	[lower-alpha 1]
Lightweight	Kotetsu Boku	def.	Zorobabel Moreira	TKO (punches)	3	1:02	[lower-alpha 2]
Bantamweight	Soo Chul Kim	def.	Leandro Issa	TKO (strikes)	2	0:15	[lower-alpha 3]
Middleweight	Melvin Manhoef	def.	Ryo Kawamura	KO (punch)	1	4:40
Bantamweight Grand Prix Quarterfinals
Bantamweight	Jens Pulver	def.	Zhao Ya Fei	Technical decision (unanimous)	3	5:00
Bantamweight	Masakatsu Ueda	def.	Min Jung Song	Decision (unanimous)	3	5:00
Bantamweight	Kevin Belingon	def.	Yusup Saadulaev	TKO (strikes)	1	3:18
Preliminary Card
Flyweight	Gianni Subba	def.	Bruce Loh	KO (soccer kick)	1	0:33
Featherweight	Mitch Chilson	def.	Ngabdi Mulyadi	TKO (strikes)	2	1:05

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