After over a yr of absence from the ONE Championship ring, two-sport and two-division champion Roman Kryklia returns to defend his heavyweight Muay Thai title in opposition to former WBC heavyweight champion and British Muay Thai fighter Lyndon Knowles.
The disappointing absence of Roman Kryklia doesn’t do the now-heavyweight phenom justice. His path of absolute destruction in ONE Championship received an absurd quantity of accomplishments. Having received the ONE mild heavyweight kickboxing title, the ONE heavyweight kickboxing Grand Prix, and the ONE heavyweight Muay Thai world title. All whereas having an undefeated file within the promotion and practically all knockouts in ONE Championship.
With ONE Championship’s barren divisions, this can be a model new alternative for Roman Kryklia and the promotion with a purpose to promote the heavyweight divisions of Muay Thai. An uncharted territory in fight sports activities as in Muay Thai the glamour divisions are literally the smaller divisions, which is completely totally different from the opposite fight sports activities reminiscent of boxing and MMA,
ONE Championship can not enable Roman Kryklia to sit down on the shelf.
ONE Championship has taken a blow to its repute as a consequence of them shelving sure fighters for over a yr and never utilizing a few of their high expertise, reminiscent of former two-division ONE MMA champion Reinier De Ridder, who was fairly vocal about this problem. Now, with probably the most thrilling fighters not simply at heavyweight however in all of kickboxing,
Additionally, with Glory now build up its heavyweight division with its 32-man match, ONE can not afford to waste the prime years of probably the most impactful fighters within the kickboxing circuit.
