One Championship: Free Live stream while Jonathan Haggerty defends kickboxing belt against Wei Rui | WWE News
Jonathan Haggerty wants to start a year strongly in the first defense of his one beyzna -categoric kickboxing belt of the World Cup against Chinese striker Wei Rui.
Londoner enters the fight after a difficult year after losing the title of Muay Thai of Superlek Kiatmoo9 after in September 2024.
Despite this downtime, Haggerty is determined to become an unforgettable year in 2025.
“That was a little fall, but we came back and started,” Haggerty said. “We don’t lose, we learn.”
Looking forward, Haggerty has big plans for the coming year: “I’ll just make sure it’s 2025. The best possible year.”
For his first fight in the year, Haggerty returns to kickboxinging. After winning in the 2023 belt, he is the current champion in kickboxing. Now he will face experienced Wei Rui at Lusail Arena in Qatar.
Known as ‘Demon Blade’, the Chinese striker is the former world champion K-1 and has an incredible 70 win record and only three career defeats.
With victories of 21 fights, Rui was last defeated in 2018. His winning debut in May last year against former Kickboxing champion at one Bantam, Hiroki Akimoto, has strengthened his position of the deserving title of Challenger.
The British fighter admits the threat that Wei poses, praising him as a “second world class striker.”
“We don’t take it lightly,” he said.
Nevertheless, the champion remains confident. “We think we can safely do the demolition job,” Haggerty said, recalling his devastating knockout victory over Brazilian combat Fabricio Andrade to win the title. He is determined to repeat that success in Qatar.
Unfinished business: Pacio VS Brooks III
However, the main event could steal in the spotlight of MMA Strawweight World title between Joshua Pacio and temporary champion Jarred Brooks.
This will be the third time these two faced, and Brooks won his first fight in 2022. However, their second conflict saw Brooks disqualified for the illegal strike, which is why he lost his title 2024.
Because both fighters were to be proven, the stage was set up to fight for an explosive trilogy.
Peacock returns to one championship
Adding an exciting card of one 171, a one -hand fighter Jake Peacock returns to one championship. After an extraordinary debut of 2024, Peacock proved that he was ready to compete with the best.
He is ready to face Japanese fighter Shinji Suzuki. Their duel is originally scheduled for November, but was then delayed to present himself at this event in Qatar.
The inspirational British-Canadian fighter wants to give another exciting performance: “Mark my words, the next fight, it must be a job.”
You can catch all the actions live on Sky Sports from 3pm on Thursday 20th February.
