ONE Fighting Championship: The "New" Pride FC

It was a sad day back in 2007 when the MMA community lost its beloved Pride FC organization in Japan. New promotions emerged such as DREAM & Sengoku while Shooto & DEEP shows continued. None seemed to be able to catch fire like Pride FC did back in the day with superstars such as Kazushi Sakuraba, Mirko Filipovic, Mark Kerr, Rickson Gracie, Fedor Emelianenko , Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, on their roster. Now with DREAM failing ONE FC hast stepped up and into the MMA world confidently declaring themselves the second coming of Pride FC & MMA in the East.

ONE FC is ran by Victor Cui who has been working with ESPN to bring MMA back to popularity in Japan. "Fans want to see the best of the best compete against one another. For that very reason, ONE Fighting Championship has signed practically every Asian world champion or national champion in martial arts to compete under MMA rules. Most of our fighters are already household names in Asia."

The inaugural event filled the 12,000 seats at the Singapore Indoor Stadium and broadcast to a projected 500 million homes in all of Asia! The "Pride" ring is gone replaced with the standard circle cage and will feature the commentary of MMA legend Bas "El Guapo" Rutten. Veteran Matt Hume will lead the referee's and judges and famous referee Yuji Shimada has also joined the cast.

ONE FC will include all forms of MMA including boxing, wrestling, Karate, Kung Fu, Judo, Akiido, Muay Thai, Silat, Jiu-Jitsu, Kali, Shuai Jiao, and reserves the right for bouts in just these forms as well.

Eduard Folayang defeated A Sol Kwon by Unanimous Decision.

Yoshiyuki Yoshida defeated Phil Baroni by Unanimous Decision.

Eric Kelly defeated Mitch Chilson by RNC in the very 1st round.

Gregor Gracie defeated Seok Mo Kim by Unanimous Decision.

Zorobabel Moreira defeated Andy Wang by TKO via knees in the final round.

Eddie Ng KO'd Yuan Chun Bo 45 seconds into the bout.

Radeem Rahman TKO'd Susovan Ghosh in the 1st.

Vuyisile Colossa KO'd Ma Xing Yu 49 seconds into their fight.

Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai TKO'd Daniel Mashamaite with a knee in the 2nd.

Leandro Issa defeated Soo Chul Kim via Unanimous Decision.