After two thrilling bouts, Regian Eersel and Alexis Nicolas will look to finish their rivalry at ONE Combat Night time 30 for the ONE light-weight kickboxing world title. The 2 will characteristic because the co-main occasion of the night. The 2 will face off twice in 2024 as they commerce the belt in opposition to one another, with Nicolas profitable the primary bout and Eersel profitable the belt again on the finish of the 12 months in two exhilarating and aggressive matches.
Nicolas is gunning to regain his world title from the dominant and skillful two-sport champion Eersel, who has maintained a streak of dominance over his run in ONE Championship. The French kickboxer is the one fighter who has been in a position to grasp with Eersel and provides him his best fights within the promotion and a number of the most technical and high-level kickboxing fights we’ve got seen in current reminiscence.
Regian Eersel and Alexis Nicolas stand collectively on the high of light-weight kickboxing.
The dutch-surinamese phenom and the difficult French striker are simply a number of the greatest light-weight opponents in all of light-weight kickboxing, even exterior of the promotion, with them shortly being to hold with one of the best of any high promotion corresponding to Glory kickboxing and Okay-1, with their unbelievable champions corresponding to Tyjani Beztati and Stoyan Koprivlenki.
The difficulty is the barren nature of their divisions, as ONE Championship is unbelievable at match-making, and even the least compelling playing cards on paper can produce unbelievable fights and finishes. The issue isn’t the promotions reserving or advertising and marketing; it’s the seeming incapacity for them to develop their divisions. This results in conditions the place their high fighters are unable to compete with the highest canine within the sport as a result of they merely should not there to compete with them. Unimaginable skills like Regian Eersel and Alexis Nicolas deserve high competitors, not only for us the followers, however for the expansion of the corporate and kickboxing as a mainstream fight sport.
