Check out highlights of some of the most chaotic fights in ONE Championship

ONE Championship history is lined up with explosive, if not chaotic, fights featuring some of the top fighters in the game right now. They were the focus of a video compilation recently shared on the promotion’s official YouTube channel.

Included in the feature is the impressive MMA debut of ONE welterweight submission grappling champion Tye Ruotolo against teen phenom Adrian Lee in September at ONE Fight Night 35 where he won by submission. There he showed how well prepared he was in shifting lane to MMA, holding his own right at the onset.

He, however, had to dig deep as Lee, younger brother of ONE Championship double world champion Christian Lee, did not go down without a fight. In the second round, the two went back-and-forth before Ruotolo took the match to the ground, where he started to work his way to a finish. The end came when he was able to sink a rear-naked choke to force Lee to tap out at the 4:14 mark of the canto.

Also part of the video post is the highly competitive world title clash between strawweight MMA world champion Joshua Pacio and Brazilian challenger Alex Silva at ONE: Fire & Fury in January 2020 in Manila. It was mayhem between the two throughout their five-round battle that saw them throw everything but the kitchen sink at one another. In the end, it was the Filipino champion who escaped with a split-decision win.

Featured as well is the explosive championship clash between then bantamweight Muay Thai world champion Jonathan Haggerty against challenger Felipe Lobo of Brazil at ONE Fight Night 19 in February 2024. ‘The General’ had an early battle against ‘Demolition Man’, even being knocked down in the first round. But he put the cap on it when he landed a solid right cross in the third round from which Lobo could not recover from for the TKO win.

Other stars featured in the ONE Championship’s video post are Aliff Sor Dechapan, Jacob Smith, Denis Puric, Lito Adiwang and Suriyanlek Por Yenying.

Check out the video below:

Tye Ruotolo to continue competing in submission grappling in ONE Championship despite MMA success

While he has been successful in two MMA fights so far in ONE Championship, Tye Ruotolo has made it known that he has no plans of abadoning his submission grappling campaign, looking to compete in both simultaneously.

The welterweight submission grappling world champion touched on it in an interview with the promotion, saying:

“That’s the plan. I never want to leave jiu-jitsu. I love jiu-jitsu so much. My heart will always forever be in jiu-jitsu, and I always want to do the community right by at least competing once or twice a year at the very minimum.”

After his successful MMA debut over Adrian Lee, Ruotolo followed it up with another impressive submission (rear-naked choke) win over Japan’s Shozo Isojima in November.

Ruotolo became ONE champion in November 2023 and has had two successful title defenses since.