Following his remarkable debut in ONE Championship, British fighter Ben Woolliss is scheduled to return to the ring on May 16, with the event being broadcast live on Sky Sports. Woolliss will face off against Petchtanong Petchfergus in a bantamweight kickboxing match at the Lumpinee Stadium in Thailand, which will air on Sky Sports in the early hours of Saturday, May 16.
This upcoming bout on ONE Fight Night 43 will see Woolliss pitted against a former ONE bantamweight kickboxing world champion, Petchfergus. Despite struggling with long-term health issues, Woolliss, hailing from Grimsby, recently signed with ONE and made his promotional debut just last month.
He accepted his first fight on short notice, merely nine days, and took on former ONE bantamweight MMA world champion John Lineker in a featherweight kickboxing contest. Lineker is infamous for his formidable punching power, but Woolliss secured a spectacular one-round stoppage victory, defeating "Hands of Stone" with a series of devastating low kicks. The main event on May 16 features Chinese star Tang Kai as he defends his ONE featherweight MMA world title for the second time against Shamil "The Cobra" Gasanov. In other news, Dzhabrailov achieved a knockout victory at ONE Fight Night 42, while Adesanya expressed his determination to stay after suffering his fourth consecutive UFC loss.
Tang Kai has been on a tear, overpowering every featherweight MMA opponent in his path, but Gasanov boasts an impressive record, leveraging his powerful striking, grappling prowess, and submission expertise to overwhelm his opponents. Having avenged his sole career loss, "The Cobra" is now poised to strike and may be unstoppable.