ONE Fight Night 8: Superlek vs. Williams

The official Tapology discussion thread for the event!

This one is gonna be Arjan Bhullar vs Anatoly Malykhan

Bhullar vs. Malykhin
Anatoly Malykhin, TKO, R1
Turns out Anatoly is pretty good

Bhullar vs. Malykhin
Anatoly Malykhin, TKO, R1
Destruction by Malykhin.

FIGHT NITE

Bhullar vs. Malykhin
Anatoly Malykhin, TKO, R1
Not much to say here, Bhullar should consider selling insurance after this one. Not really lol but this is a missmatch

Bhullar vs. Malykhin
Arjan Bhullar, DEC
Bhullar is more well Rounded, Better wrestler and probably physically stronger, plus he's fought way better competition and will be super motivated coming into this fight

 Bhullar's last fight was Brandon Vera and Malykhin's last fight was him starching Reinier de Ridder.

Bhullar ducked again that crazy. Can ONE strip this guy already 

No wayyyy Bhullar Pulled out again, as a Fellow Proud Brown, I love him and will support him, but this is getting out of hand, dude is literally holding the division for 2 Years now smh, strip him and Make Anatoly vs Buchecha already 

I don't care if Bhullar is "ducking" or is legitimate injured, If you don't fight for 2 year, You should be strip, Let other people fight for it, But I say it again, I'm not a big fan of fans saying fighter a is ducking fighter b, Because who know what happen?, Maybe he is ducking Malykin, But training for a MMA fighter isn't easy and you can get injurded

Are you sure it's Bhullar who pulled out not Anatoly?
I checked all Social Media Accounts of ONE FC and it's website can't see news about fight falling apart

keep an eye out for akbar guys, decent test for him

Ham vs. Hirata
Seo Hee Ham, DEC
Hirata is trash

Oh vs. Abdullaev
Akbar Abdullaev, TKO, R1
Abdullaev is pretty green, but ONE’s random signings have been doing shockingly good recently. Looking forward to this one

Silva vs. Yamakita
Keito Yamakita, DEC
Silva’s bjj is sick as ****, but it’s so hard for me to back a 40 year old flyweight, even if he’s roided to the gills. No idea what to expect from this Japanese kid but he should win

Ham vs. Hirata
Seo Hee Ham, DEC
Hammy wins

Oh vs. Abdullaev
Akbar Abdullaev, TKO, R2
Akbar can crack and he's more accurate and measured than Ho's drunken striking, should be interesting

RiP Iuri Lapicus 

Lapicus was highly criticized in the latest part of his career that ended prematurely due to a fatal crash. But in my opinion, despite the fact that Italy was not born, his career was a great contribution to Italian MMA and a sign that Team Petrosyan may not be able to have its founders (due to age issues) involved in MMA, but it does have a platform to change the MMA Game in European lands. As Marvin Vettori said years ago: when he started there were no MMA gyms in Italy, he had to train boxing and grappling in separate places and there was no notion of Unified MMA so he had to emigrate in order to grow as an MMA Fighter. The first Italian MMA team that represented strongly was Alessio Di Chirico's Gloria Fight Center team, it was an MMA Gym based in Italy because all the fighters they represented in the past like Alessio Sakara had to go train outside Italy. 

Now there are more MMA gyms in Italy and Lapicus was the representative of Team Petrosyan in MMA, a fighter who emigrated from his native Moldova to train in Milan, Italy. His passing is truly unfortunate not only due to the fact that he was only 27 years old and had a career ahead of him, but also because evidences the great risks of having a collision while on a motorcycle: I have always been of the opinion that motorcycles are fast vehicles and that they can be particularly useful in complicated sections or small spaces, but when suffering a collision the car has fenders and bumpers on its body, on the other hand, a motorcyclist receives the impact practically fully and they have greater chances of fatal consequences.

RIP Iuri Lapicus

It's gonna be a rough night for Itsuki Hirata simps (I'm the Itsuki Hirata simp)

Rodtang is out btw replaced by Danial Williams

Akbar Abdullaev is an interesting fighter. In Russia, he beat two strong promising guys Simonov and Treskin and did it ahead of schedule