ONE 166 transpired on March 1st, 2024 from Lusail Sports Arena in Lusail, Qatar.
This was one of the more MMA-predominant cards the promotion has put on in a while. That being said it was a multi-martial art offering. There was a few Muay Thai bouts, boxing action, and a submission grappling contest also taking place with this ONE Championship offering. The full results can be found below.
ONE 166
In the main event of the card, the ONE middleweight championship changed hands and a monumental win was scored. Anatoly Malykhin entered as the ONE heavyweight and light heavyweight champion. After retiring Reinier de Ridder in round three, he is now fittingly a three-division titleholder in the ONE Circle.
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ONE featherweight champion Tang Kai defended the title against the man he claimed the crown from but ended it inside the distance this time. While his first fight vs Thanh Le was a unanimous decision win, Kai went 2-0 over Le via knockout in the waning seconds of the third round.
AND STILL ???? Tang Kai TKOs Thanh Le in their rematch to unify the ONE Featherweight MMA World Title!
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Jarred Brooks would lose his ONE strawweight championship in less than a minute via disqualification. This came after illegally, as instantiated by the ONE global ruleset, spiking Pacio on his head with a slam. Joshua Pacio regained the belt and has now tied up his series with ‘The Monkey God’ after previously losing the strap to Brooks.
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Iranian heavyweight Amir Aliakbari bested a former ONE titleholder in the weight division, Arjan Bhullar. The victory came in inauspicious fashion though as Bhullar was given a red card in the final minute of the fight and disqualified for timidity. This came following two prior yellow cards for inactivity throughout the ONE 166 bout.
Amir Aliakbari is on the ATTACK ????
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In boxing action, Algerian sweet science practitioner Mehdi Zatout defeated Arab boxer Zuhayr Al-Qahtani via unanimous decision.
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Four ounce Muay Thai took over the ONE Circle as Vladimir Kuzmin defeated Turkey-based Zafer Sayik by way of a unanimous decision. Kuzmin had a knockdown in the second round and earned the verdict of the judges in this one.
DYNAMITE right from Vladimir Kuzmin ????
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In submission grappling, Cleber Sousa elicited a tap from an armbar at the 5:31 mark against Yemen-based Osamah Almarwai.
NASTY ???? Cleber Sousa submits Osamah Almarwai via armbar!
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Ali Saldoev defeated Morocco native Zakaria El Jamari in four-ounce Muay Thai action in an emphatic fashion. The KO finish came for Saldoev fifty-one seconds into round two of the catchweight contest. This transpired for Saldoev after overcoming severe early adversities from being rocked and dropped.
STATEMENT MADE ???? Ali Saldoev debuts with a spectacular KO!
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In four-ounce Muay Thai action, Shinji Suzuki bested former title challenger Han Zi Hao via unanimous decision. Suzuki scored a knockdown in the second stanza of their contest en route to winning on points.
What do you think about this knockdown? ????
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In the opening fight of the night, Keito Yamakita secured an impressive bulldog choke submission at the 4:04 mark of round 1 during his bout versus Jeremy Miado.
BULLDOG CHOKE ???? Keito Yamakita starts the night with a first-round submission!
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