ONE: Elias Mahmoudi, Hiroaki Suzuki pull off wins in Muay Thai Super Series

Yukinori Ogasawara(L) VS Elias Mahmoudi to cap off the ONE: Hero’s Ascent preliminary round. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines—Elias Mahmoudi headlined the preliminary card with a unanimous decision win over Yukinori Ogasawara in the flyweight division of the ONE Super Series in ONE: Hero’s Ascent Friday at Mall of Asia Arena.

Algeria’s Mahmoudi had early control of the fight after a sharp right elbow cut Japan’s Ogasawara in the first round.

Mahmoudi then stayed through his course and maintained his authority over Ogasawara for the remainder of the fight.

Tang Kai scored a beautiful knockout win after sending Sung Jong Lee to sleep 1:14 into the second round of their featherweight division fight.

China’s Tang was rocked at the start of second round and was almost put in a guillotine choke but he was able to recover and sent a beautiful head kick to the temple of Lee.

This was Tang’s (8-2) fourth straight win, all of which were knockouts, while Lee (2-4) suffered his third straight loss.

Hiroaki Suzuki pulled off a last second victory over Mohammed Bin Mahmoud in the ONE Super Series Muay Thai event.

Mohammed Bin Mahmoud vs Hiroaki Suzuki. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.net

It was mostly a back-and-forth affair for most of the fight until Suzuki pinned Bin Mahmoud to the cage and the Japanese fighter proceeded to maul his Malaysian opponent.

The fight was eventually stopped 2:53 into the third.

In the opening match of the preliminary card, Himanshu Kaushik of India scored a technical knockout victory over Indonesia’s Egi Rozten in the strawweight division

Referee Yuji Shimada called a stop to the fight 3:33 into the first round after Kaushik (4-3) took down Rozten (2-2) and proceeded to rain several punches to the head.

Kaushik was also able to snap his three-fight losing streak while Rozten failed to get his third straight win.