ONE Championship Women's Atomweight Tournament Starts on May 28th
ONE Championship is about to have 8 female atomweight martial artists kick off the ONE Atomweight World Grand Prix on May 28. The winner of this tournament will earn themselves the a title shot against reigning ONE Women’s Atomweight World Champion “Unstoppable” Angela Lee.
The full lineup of women who will be competing in this tournament includes:
Alyse Anderson (5-1)
Meng Bo (17-5)
Stamp Fairtex (5-1)
Seo Hee Ham (23-8)
Itsuki Hirata (7-0)
Ritu Phogat (4-0)
Alyona Rassohyna (13-4)
Denice Zamboanga (8-0)
This card where the tournament gets its start will also be the first all women’s event that ONE has ever held. Not only will we get to see these 8 women square off for round 1, but we’ll get to see a kickboxing bout involving Anissa Meksen who is making her ONE debut against Martine Michieletto. Also, there will be a title fight on this card involving 5 time ONE Women’s Strawweight World Champion Xiong Jing Nan and 13 time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion Michelle Nicolini.
This is not a card you’ll want to miss considering the lineup looks like this:
Xiong Jing Nan vs Michelle Nicolini for the ONE Strawweight World Championship
Anissa Meksen vs Martine Michieletto in a strawweight kickboxing bout
Denice Zamboanga vs Seo Hee Ham
Altona Rassohyna vs Stamp Fairtex
Itsuki Hirata vs Alyse Anderson
Meng Bo vs Ritu Phogat
ONE: EMPOWER!, will be taking place Friday, May 28th at 8:30am ET
