ONE Fight Night 15

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ONE Fight Night 15: Le vs. Freymanov
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The poster for ONE Fight Night 15: Le vs. Freymanov
Information
Promotion ONE Championship
DateOctober 7, 2023 (2023-October-07)
Venue Lumpinee Boxing Stadium
City Bangkok, Thailand
Event chronology
ONE Friday Fights 36: Superball vs. Lobo ONE Fight Night 15: Le vs. Freymanov ONE Friday Fights 37: Bohic vs. Kacem

ONE Fight Night 15: Le vs. Freymanov was a combat sport event produced by ONE Championship that took place on October 7, 2023, at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Background

A ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Championship bout between current champion Tawanchai P.K.Saenchai and former ONE Featherweight Kickboxing champion Superbon Singha Mawynn was expected to headline the event. [5] However, Superbon was forced to pulled out due to injured his leg. [6] He was replaced by Jo Nattawut in a kickboxing bout. [7] As a results, an interim ONE Featherweight World Championship bout between former champion Thanh Le (also former interim LFA Featherweight Champion) and Ilya Freymanov was promoted to the main event status. [8] [9]

A ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Championship for the vacant title between current ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai champion Jonathan Haggerty (also former ONE Flyweight Muay Thai champion) and current ONE Bantamweight World Champion Fabrício Andrade was scheduled for this event. [10] Former champion Petchtanong Petchfergus was stripped of the title due to testing positive for both metenolone and boldenone, banned substance according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). [11] However, for unknown reasons, the bout was moved to main event at ONE Fight Night 16 on November 4. [12]

A ONE Strawweight Kickboxing World Championship bout between current champion Jonathan Di Bella and Danial Williams served as the co-main event. [13]

ONE Flyweight Submission Grappling champion Mikey Musumeci completed in a non-title openweight grappling match against Shinya Aoki. [14]

A strawweight bout between former champion Joshua Pacio and Mansur Malachiev took place at the event. [15]

A flyweight bout between former ONE Flyweight World Championship challenger Danny Kingad and Hu Yong was scheduled for this event. [16] However, Kingad withdraw from the bout due to an ankle injury and was replaced by Eko Roni Saputra. [17] [18]

Results

Main card (Amazon Prime Video)
Weight classMethodRoundTimeNotes
Featherweight Thanh Le def.Ilya FreymanovSubmission (heel hook)11:02 [lower-alpha 1]
Strawweight Kickboxing Jonathan Di Bella (c)def. Danial Williams Decision (unanimous) (50–45, 50–45, 50–45)53:00 [lower-alpha 2]
Featherweight Kickboxing Tawanchai P.K.Saenchai def. Jo Nattawut Decision (unanimous) (29–28, 29–28, 29–28)33:00
Openweight Submission Grappling Mikey Musumeci def. Shinya Aoki Submission (Achilles lock)13:05
Strawweight Joshua Pacio def.Mansur MalachievDecision (unanimous)35:00
Lightweight Zhang Lipeng def. Timofey Nastyukhin TKO (punches)13:18
FlyweightHu Yongdef. Eko Roni Saputra TKO (punches)11:03
Catchweight (121 lbs) Muay Thai Phetjeeja Lukjaoporongtom def.Celest HansenTKO (doctor stoppage)31:01
WelterweightHiroyuki Tetsukadef.Jin Tae-hoSubmission (armbar)14:45
Catchweight (174.5 lbs) Muay ThaiShakir Al-Tekreetidef.Bampara KouyateDecision (unanimous)33:00
  1. For the interim ONE Featherweight World Championship.
  2. For the ONE Strawweight Kickboxing World Championship.

[19]

Bonus awards

The following fighters received $50,000 bonuses. [20]

See also

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