“Yi Long, you will be knocked out. Please prepare to go to the hospital.”
Mark your calendar for 8 October 2019! 💥 It is the “Rematch of the Century” that everyone has been waiting for. At one win each over their last 2 meetings, Shaolin monk Yi Long and global Muay Thai icon Buakaw Banchamek Banchamek Gym (Buakaw Banchamek, บัวขาว บัญชาเมฆ) will face each other for the third time to settle the score once and for all.
Match Date confirmed: Buakaw VS. Yi Long 9 minutes for just 1 round
This is the breaking news in the circle of fighting. Buakaw Banchamek, the popular Muay Thai fighter from Thailand, prepare to fight in the ring of MAS FIGHT against Yi Long, Shaolin Kung Fu fighter from China. This is the 3rd time of their fight.
Recently, the match organizer already announced the date of confrontation. Tony Chen, the big promoter for their two previous fights entered the ring of MAS Fight on 28 May 2019 in Hong Kong.
He announced that their fight will happen on 8 June 2019 at the Republic of China. He confirm that there will be only one round for 9 minutes. Any body parts can be used for the fight (Punches, Kicks, Knees elbows) No referee. Just knock out for the win or admit defeat. (Count one to three for Knock Out) The result will be tied if both sides are still standing.
Tony Chen still insist that according to contract, this will be the third and last time that Buakaw will meet Yi Long. He will try his best to promote news to everyone in the world. Many Thai press also interest and the match might be broadcast. Certainly, fans can follow the news from the website and facebook MAS FIGHT
The visionary entrepreneur behind the largest sports property in Asia has taken ONE Championship from startup to one of the world’s largest global sports properties. Under Sityodtong’s leadership, the billion dollar promotion has registered unprecedented tv ratings and exponential growth in digital metrics across 145 countries. Backed by blue chip institutional investors like Sequoia Capital and Temasek Holdings, ONE appears to be on the cusp of global dominance with its millennial fan base.
ONE Championship (formerly known as ONE Fighting Championship or ONE FC) is a Singapore-based mixed martial arts (MMA), Muay Thai, kickboxing, boxing, and grappling promotion which was launched on 14 July 2011 by entrepreneur Chatri Sityodtong and former ESPN Star Sports senior executive Victor Cui. ONE Championship broadcasts to over 1.7 billion potential viewers in 136 countries. ONE Championship is backed by Sequoia Capital, GIC, Temasek Holdings, Iconiq Capital, Mission Holdings, and Greenoaks Capital. According to several prominent media outlets such as Forbes, ONE Championship is Asia's largest global sports media property, as well as the world's largest martial arts organization. Notable fighters on the roster include Demetrious Johnson, Eddie Alvarez, Nieky Holzken, Angela Lee, Aung La N Sang, Sage Northcutt, Martin Nguyen, Eduard Folayang, Giorgio Petrosyan, Yodsanklai Fairtex, Kevin Belingon, Bibiano Fernandes, Roger Gracie, Brandon Vera, Shinya Aoki, and Xiong Jing Nan. The first ONE Championship event was held on 3 September 2011 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. The promotion has since expanded across the Asian region.[12] ONE Championship has held 83 events to date with shows being held in Singapore, Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Taipei, Phnom Penh, Beijing, Guangzhou, Yangon, Changsha, Hefei, Macau and Bangkok. The organization plans to further expand into Seoul, Tokyo, and Vietnam in 2019.
ONE Championship has a ten-year broadcast deal with Fox Sports Asia (formerly known as ESPN Star Sports). After the ONE: A New Era press conference Thursday in Tokyo, ONE Championship Chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong discusses his belief that promoters in the west sullied the name of mixed martial arts, what ONE is doing in an attempt to reverse that, the possibility of ONE coming to the United States, free agency and more.
Chatri Trisiripisal ชาตรี ตรีศิริพิศาล; RTGS: Chatri Trisiriphisan, known by the ring names as Chatri Sityodtong (Thai: ชาตรี ศิษย์ยอดธง; RTGS: Chatri Sit-yotthong) and Yodchatri Sityodtong (Thai: ยอดชาตรี ศิษย์ยอดธง; RTGS: Yotchatri Sit-yotthong), is an entrepreneur and a martial artist from Thailand, best known as the Founder, Chairman and CEO of ONE Championship. Chatri Sityodtong was named Asia's 3rd Most Powerful Person in Sports by FOX Sports.
Chatri started Muay Thai as a child under Kru Yodtong Senanan of Sityodtong Camp in Pattaya, Thailand. Kru Yodtong eventually gave Chatri the ring name, Yodchatri Sityodtong. A veteran of over 30 fights, Sityodtong's last professional Muay Thai fight was in 2008 in Thailand. He is a certified senior Muay Thai instructor under Kru Yodtong Senanan of the Sityodtong Camp in Pattaya, Thailand. Before his death, Kru Yodtong appointed Chatri Sityodtong as one of 4 conservators of Sityodtong Muay Thai in the world. Sityodtong started training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in approximately 2006, and has a Blue Belt under Renzo Gracie.
Chatri was named by MSN Sports as one of the top coaches in the sports world alongside Greg Jackson, Pep Guardiola, Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, etc. He has trained, coached, or cornered top professional fighters such as former UFC Lightweight Champion Rafael dos Anjos, DREAM World Champion Shinya Aoki, former UFC Middleweight Champion Rich Franklin, UFC fighter Leandro Issa, UFC fighter Tarec Saffiedine, Bellator Champion Ben Askren, Muay Thai World Champion Yoddecha Sityodtong, WBA Boxing World Champion Yodsanan Sor Nanthachai at events such as the UFC, DREAM Fighting Championship, the Art of War Fighting Championship, and the Lumpinee Stadium Championship.
Early business career
Chatri Sityodtong spent three years as an investment analyst at Fidelity Investments covering a variety of industries. He later joined Bain and Company as a management consultant and then launched NextDoor Networks as co-founder and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy. Nextdoor Networks was a San Francisco based startup provider of e-commerce infrastructure. Chatri Sityodtong later became a Managing Director of JLF Asset Management, a US$1 billion hedge fund. Sityodtong also worked for a few years as a Managing Director at Maverick Capital, a US$12 billion hedge fund founded by Lee Ainslie III and billionaire Sam Wyly. Backed by Farallon Capital as his largest investor, Sityodtong later launched Izara Capital Management, a US$500 million New York hedge fund. After a decade on Wall Street, he retired as a hedge fund manager, and pursued other entrepreneurial ventures.
Current business career
A self-made multimillionaire entrepreneur, Sityodtong owns stakes in real estate, sports, retail, technology, and media. Sityodtong's businesses have been featured on CNN, ESPN, Star Sports, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Times, Channel NewsAsia, Straits Times, Reuters, Fortune, Yahoo! Sports, MSN, Men's Health, Shape, China Post, Times of India, Jakarta Globe, and other media publications around the world.
Sityodtong is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of ONE Championship, Asia's largest sports media property with a global broadcast to over 2.6 billion potential viewers in 140+ countries. Backed by Sequoia Capital and Temasek Holdings, ONE Championship has over US$275 million in total capital as of August 2018. He is the Founder and Chairman of Evolve University, Asia's largest online university for martial arts. He is the Founder and Chairman of Evolve MMA, a chain of martial arts academies in Asia. Chatri Sityodtong is also the Chairman of Indiabulls Properties Investment Trust, a Singapore-listed real estate investment trust company with S$1.5 billion in net assets. Indiabulls Properties Investment Trust is a holding company for Indiabulls Properties and Indiabulls Real Estate. Sityodtong also owns stakes in several companies in other industries.
Chatri Sityodtong is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and guest lecturer at INSEAD, one of the world's leading business schools. Sityodtong is an advisor and mentor to the National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Centre. He is also an advisor to the Singapore Management University Entrepreneurship Centre and is a regular guest speaker at SMU.
Companies
According to several prominent media authorities such as Forbes and CNBC, ONE Championship is Asia's largest global sports media property. Evolve MMA has been described by CNN as Asia's number one-ranked MMA-training organization. MMA Mania named Evolve MMA as the #1 MMA camp in Asia. Evolve MMA was voted the Best International MMA Gym in the world by the readers of leading MMA website, MiddleEasy. One of his newest startups, Evolve University, is the world's largest online university for martial arts. In addition, Sityodtong is involved in several other companies in Asia.
Charity
Sityodtong serves on the Board of Directors of Project Sunshine, one of the largest volunteer organizations in the world for terminally-ill children with cancer, HIV, and other illnesses. Through one of his companies, Evolve MMA, he is also active with Boys' Town, a charity that serves children and youth in need. Sityodtong supports underprivileged children with Singapore Children's Society.
