News Reinier de Ridder vs Anatoly Malykhin 2 for the Middleweight title is set for ONE 166, March 1

[BoxerMaurits]

 

[BoxerMaurits]

Come on RDR, take that belt back to the Netherlands!

 

[Goatenstein]

RDR got wrecked pretty bad I can't see him changing much this time.

 

[TorontoTO]

Kinda a pointless matchup but when you have a collective 5 fighters between two weight classes, I guess this is what happens

 

[BoxerMaurits]

RDR got wrecked pretty bad I can't see him changing much this time.

That might be true.
As of late RDR has been putting in the work with some very accomplished strikers though, such as former GLORY Kickboxing heavyweight and now KSW-star Arek Wrzosek.
Let’s hope the training helped Reinier improve his standup game, because he’ll need it against Malykhin:










Likewise, it would be cool to see if Arek has improved his groundgame from training with de Ridder when Wrzosek takes on FNC heavyweight-champion Ivan Vitasović at KSW 90 on January 20:

 

[pankrat]

Pointless to have a "LHW" division when a guy as Malykhin can make "MW", which makes the "three division champion" gimmik just ridiculous.

 

[BoxerMaurits]

Kinda a pointless matchup but when you have a collective 5 fighters between two weight classes, I guess this is what happens

The future ain’t looking bright for ONE at all:

https://archive.md/2023.12.28-084950/https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/one-championship-qatar-investment-376789

But then again, they keep handing out those big bonus-cheques like sweet candy:

 

[pankrat]

That might be true.
As of late RDR has been putting in the work with some very accomplished strikers though, such as former GLORY Kickboxing heavyweight and now KSW-star Arek Wrzosek.
Let’s hope the training helped Reinier improve his standup game, because he’ll need it against Malykhin:



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Likewise, it would be cool to see if Arek has improved his groundgame from training with de Ridder when Wrzosek takes on FNC heavyweight-champion Ivan Vitasović at KSW 90 on January 20:

De Ridder will never be an even decent striker, he is clumsy af and doesnt have much pop in his punches.
His only path for the W is grappling but Malykhin and his size advantage are a very bad match up.
Im surprised Malykhin can make 205 under ONE's supposed weight cutting restrictions

 

[EndlessCritic]

Chatri is sadistic. RDR is insane to take this fight.

 

[TITS]

 

[AfroBanana]

De Ridder will never be an even decent striker, he is clumsy af and doesnt have much pop in his punches.
His only path for the W is grappling but Malykhin and his size advantage are a very bad match up.
Im surprised Malykhin can make 205 under ONE's supposed weight cutting restrictions

I was already questioning the integrity of the behind closed doors weight cutting for this as soon as I read the OP. I’m sure he will magically pass and look like a HW in there. ONE has way too many suspicious fights where a fighter looks 1-2 weight classes larger.

 

[CC27]

Kinda a pointless matchup but when you have a collective 5 fighters between two weight classes, I guess this is what happens

They dont have depth but this is more about them wanting Malykhin to be first triple champ in major org.

 

[TITS]

Seriously though, why is this HW cutting down to 185 now, it does seem suspicious. The Riddler did look undersized at LHW, hopefully he catches the weight bully in a submission early and doesn't get his head beaten in badly again.

 

[TorontoTO]

Seriously though, why is this HW cutting down to 185 now, it does seem suspicious. The Riddler did look undersized at LHW, hopefully he catches the weight bully in a submission early and doesn't get his head beaten in badly again.

Technically it’s a cut only to 205, but weight cutting obviously exists in ONE regardless of what nonsense they say

 

[TorontoTO]

I was already questioning the integrity of the behind closed doors weight cutting for this as soon as I read the OP. I’m sure he will magically pass and look like a HW in there. ONE has way too many suspicious fights where a fighter looks 1-2 weight classes larger.

Nico Carrillo looks like a giant fighting Nong O or any other Thai

Haggerty is at least lanky so it’s believable but Carrillo is taller and more jacked

 

[The_Renaissance]

Kinda a pointless matchup but when you have a collective 5 fighters between two weight classes, I guess this is what happens

Yeah I was kinda livid that Ben Tynan chose to sign with ONE. They've got like 5 fucking HWs in total, it's such a waste of a chunk of your career.

 

[TITS]

Technically it’s a cut only to 205, but weight cutting obviously exists in ONE regardless of what nonsense they say

Yeah, I noticed they weighed in at 225 for the LHW fight. That's still another 20 lbs for him to cut. The whole weight and rehydration thing with ONE is just weird.

 

[KnockoutsGalore1]

Malykhin is just too much for him, and I don't see the cut being the x-factor here. And New....

 

[TorontoTO]

Yeah I was kinda livid that Ben Tynan chose to sign with ONE. They've got like 5 fucking HWs in total, it's such a waste of a chunk of your career.

Same reaction to Soldic signing. A year and half later we got only two bouts, no bouts anytime soon it seems and he still has like 5 or 6 bouts left so probably the next 5 years locked up

 

[Trabaho]

Reiner getting stomped into oblivion. Aside Francis that russian guy is the only global elite at HW, he got that stoic killer instinct. He looked like a deer in headlights the first fight. Big balls to go for the rematch. Toughest fight he could pick. I will watch.