BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » Kamal https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:45:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 One FC Lightweight Champion Shinya Aoki Set for a Drop to Featherweight https://www.badmma.com/one-fc-lightweight-champion-shinya-aoki-set-for-a-drop-to-featherweight.html https://www.badmma.com/one-fc-lightweight-champion-shinya-aoki-set-for-a-drop-to-featherweight.html#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:00:51 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/one-fc-lightweight-champion-shinya-aoki-set-for-a-drop-to-featherweight.html Shinya Aoki has been the most dominant lightweights in Asia for the better part of a decade, but the reigning ONE FC lightweight champion and former Dream, Shooto and WAMMA champion is set for a new challenge: campaigning at 145 pounds. Talk of a possible drop down in weight for Aoki has been intensifying ever since his title victory over Kotetsu Boku . He made the 155-pound limit so easily for that fight that both him and his team stated that he would be likely to compete at featherweight in the future. The final stage in the preparatory process took place last weekend with Aoki completing a successful test cut. He posted a photo of himself on Facebook stepping on the scales at 65.6 kg along with a message saying that it had been “no problem.” The most obvious fight for the Japanese legend would be against reigning ONE FC featherweight champion Koji Oishi , who won the belt by beating Honorio Banario in Manila last month. Aoki, however, also holds the lightweight strap, which could complicate any prospective featherweight match-up, as ONE FC matchmaker Matt Hume might be reluctant to allow one fighter to hold two belts concurrently. If he remains at 155 pounds, there are a number of potential contenders coming through the ONE FC ranks including Kamal Shalorus , Caros Fodor and Lowen Tynanes, while the top-ranked fighters in the featherweight division at present are Oishi, Banario, Eric Kelly, and Bae Young Kwon. The decision to move down in weight was made by Aoki and the training team at Evolve MMA in Singapore, which has a proven track record of helping its fighters make weight drops

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/one-fc-lightweight-champion-shinya-aoki-set-for-a-drop-to-featherweight.html/feed 0 From Humble Beginnings to Pro Fighter, Kamal Shalorus Calls Out One FC Champ Shinya Aoki https://www.badmma.com/from-humble-beginnings-to-pro-fighter-kamal-shalorus-calls-out-one-fc-champ-shinya-aoki.html https://www.badmma.com/from-humble-beginnings-to-pro-fighter-kamal-shalorus-calls-out-one-fc-champ-shinya-aoki.html#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2013 22:08:37 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/from-humble-beginnings-to-pro-fighter-kamal-shalorus-calls-out-one-fc-champ-shinya-aoki.html Kamal Shalorus established himself as an immediate contender for Shinya Aoki’s ONE FC lightweight belt with a decision win over Eduard Folayang last month and the Iranian wasted no time in calling out the reigning 155-pound champion. “I would love to fight with Shinya Aoki and honestly I think it’s a good match-up because he’s a grappler, but I’m a wrestler, he cannot take me down and I can strike with him. I competed 16 minutes with Saulo Ribeiro and he couldn’t submit me, so Aoki’s not going to do anything to me. That’s a very good match-up for me; Eduard Folayang is a harder fight for me than Aoki.” It’s fighting talk from a man who finds himself back in Asia fighting for ONE FC, after a career that had been spent competing exclusively in his adopted home of America. There is no question that the recent win over Folayang has thrust him immediately into the title picture in a division that is also home to Lowen Tynanes, Ariel Sexton and Caros Fodor.

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