Kingad beats Bulgarian foe in ONE Malaysia card
Danny Kingad of the Philippines goes for the take down on Sotir Kichukov of Bulgaria in their flyweight fight in ONE: Visions Victory Friday at Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo from ONE
Filipino flyweight Danny Kingad got back on track after outpointing Sotir Kichukov of Bulgaria in ONE: Visions of Victory Friday night at Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Kingad impressed with his superior striking and grappling through three rounds to beat Kichukov by unanimous decision.
The 22-year-old Kingad picked up his sixth win after absorbing a first round loss to flyweight champion Adriano Moraes three months ago in Manila.
Kichukov had his moments and was able to go the distance despite fighting as a substitute foe against the Team Lakay standout.
Kingad was supposed to face Gianni Subba but the Malaysian fighter was called up to serve as a replacement to Moraes, who pulled out of the headliner against Reece McLaren due to an injury he suffered in training.
McLaren went on to dispose of Subba with an arm triangle submission in the second round.
In the co-featured bout, Agilan Thani also won by tap out in the second round at the expense of debuting ONE fighter Amitesh Chaubey.
Meanwhile, Christian Lee continued his string of impressive performance after scoring his fourth straight win by stoppage, submitting Japanese veteran Kazunori Yokota with a guillotine choke in the second round.
In the other matches, Luis Santos defeated Kiamrian Abbasov in the welterweight division; Michelle Nicolini made quick work of Iryna Kyselova after applying a rear-naked choke at the 2:26 mark of the opening round; Ma Jia Wen also won using the same submission move ina second round victory over Ahmed Mujtaba; Muhammad Aiman beat Rin Saroth; Jihin Radzuan used a triangle choke to stop Puja Tomar in the second round of their women’s atomweight fight and Khon Sichan edged Riski Umar via split decision.
