Stamp Fairtex, ONE Combat Night time 10 Credit score: ONE Championship
ONE Championship will return to Denver, Colorado’s Ball Enviornment on August 1, 2025 for ONE 173, the place an atomweight title unification combat will likely be featured.
Promotion officers introduced the occasion on Thursday. ONE 173 will characteristic the return the return of Stamp Fairtex (11-2), the promotion’s atomweight champion who will tackle interim champ Denice Zamboanga (12-2).
The occasion will mark ONE Championship’s second go to to Denver, and third general to the state of Colorado, together with ONE’s debut on U.S. soil in Broomfield in Might 2023. They arrange store in Denver final yr, whereas pulling out of a deliberate journey to Atlanta, GA.
Fairtex has lengthy been one of many promotion’s largest stars, incomes multi-sport champ distinction after claiming gold in kickboxing, Muay Thai, and later MMA (she retains solely the ONE atomweight MMA championship at the moment). Stamp was anticipated to Zamboanga final March, just for the bout to be pushed again to June, then scrapped resulting from an damage sustained by Fairtex.
A September combat towards Xiong Jing Nan that may have seen Stamp problem for the Chinese language fighter’s strawweight title was scrapped resulting from damage as effectively.
In consequence, Stamp Fairtex has not competed since September of 2023. Throughout her absence, Zamboanga has gained back-to-back bouts, and captured interim gold reverse Alyona Rassohyna final month.
