BJJ News — one-championship

Garry Tonon Finally Free: Nine Years Later, ONE Championship's Matching Rights Clause Is Gone

Garry Tonon Finally Free: Nine Years Later, ONE Championship's Matching Rights Clause Is Gone

When ONE Championship quietly released Garry Tonon alongside four other fighters, the immediate reaction was predictable—financial cleanup, roster trimming ahead of a Japan pivot, standard promotion housekeeping. But the real story wasn't the release itself.
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Diogo Reis's Return to Competition After Leaving Fight Sports Manaus

Diogo Reis's Return to Competition After Leaving Fight Sports Manaus

When Diogo Reis stepped into the ONE Championship cage for Fight Night 43 on May 15, he was doing something that looked routine on the surface but carried weight underneath it. He was defending his ONE flyweight submission grappling championship against Yuki Takahashi.
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When Kade Ruotolo and Diogo Reis Both Fought Through Inflection Points on the Same Bangkok Card

When Kade Ruotolo and Diogo Reis Both Fought Through Inflection Points on the Same Bangkok Card

Two ADCC champions shared a ONE Fight Night 43 card in Bangkok. The coincidence seemed minor at the time.
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Kade Ruotolo's First MMA Knockout Changed the Conversation—Just 6 Weeks Before His Grappling Title Defense

Kade Ruotolo's First MMA Knockout Changed the Conversation—Just 6 Weeks Before His Grappling Title Defense

When Kade Ruotolo stepped into the ONE Championship cage in Bangkok, the narrative around him was still settling. But something was noticeably missing from his highlight reel—and when that hole got filled on May 15, it shifted how people were talking about him entirely.
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Diogo Reis's First Fight Without Melqui Galvão's Team — ONE Fight Night 43 Became a Test Nobody Planned

Diogo Reis's First Fight Without Melqui Galvão's Team — ONE Fight Night 43 Became a Test Nobody Planned

Diogo Reis stepped onto the mat in Bangkok on May 15 for what should have been a routine title defense. Instead, it became something far more complicated: the first real glimpse of one of submission grappling's brightest talents operating without the institutional scaffolding that built him.
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Kade Ruotolo's May Fight Against Tetsuka Was The First Real Test — And It Mattered

Kade Ruotolo's May Fight Against Tetsuka Was The First Real Test — And It Mattered

When Kade Ruotolo stepped into the cage against Hiroyuki Tetsuka at ONE: The Inner Circle in Bangkok on the 15th, it marked something genuinely different from what had come before. The announcement didn't exactly break the internet — Tetsuka isn't a name that drives mainstream clicks — but the actua
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Fabricio Andrey's Title Shot and the Team He Left Behind in 2023

Fabricio Andrey's Title Shot and the Team He Left Behind in 2023

When Fabricio Andrey landed his ONE Championship Lightweight Submission Grappling title shot against Kade Ruotolo, the narrative practically wrote itself. A 26-year-old Brazilian grappler with three IBJJF World titles was about to fight for gold—but the real story sat in the background, quietly resh
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ONE Inner Circle: When Oumar Kane Faced Malykhin in the First Heavyweight Title Defense of 2026

ONE Inner Circle: When Oumar Kane Faced Malykhin in the First Heavyweight Title Defense of 2026

ONE Championship staged a rematch that had been simmering for months—a heavyweight title defense that brought together two of the most dominant grapplers on the promotion's roster at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok. Oumar "Reug Reug" Kane defended his ONE Heavyweight title against Anatoly "Sladkiy" Maly
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