Rodtang Jitmuangnon vs Jacob Smith, ONE 157 Credit score: ONE Championship
ONE 169 has had some bumps within the highway attending to the occasion, and one other one hit throughout Thursday’s official weigh-ins.
Already having misplaced a featherweight Muay Thai title struggle between Tawanchai and “Smokin’” Jo Nattawat as a consequence of damage, on Thursday, promotion officers introduced that famous person Rodtang had missed weight. Consequently, he’s been stripped of his ONE bantamweight Muay Thai championship.
Opponent Jacob Smith of the U.Okay., who made weight, will nonetheless be eligible to win the title. The bout, nonetheless, will technically be held at a 135.5lb catchweight.
Rodtang is arguably the highest-profile Muay Thai star on the ONE Championship roster, thanks partially to a crossover, blended guidelines struggle with Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson in 2022 – although the Thai boxing specialist wound up choked out within the second spherical.
ONE 169 streams reside on Amazon’s Prime Video platform on Friday, November 8, 2024. The cardboard is headlined by a heavyweight MMA title struggle, as triple-champ Anatoly Malykhin takes on the large Ourmar Kane, popularly referred to as “Reug Reug.”
In different MMA motion, former ONE bantamweight champ Adriano Moraes takes on Danny Kingad, competing for the primary time since finishing his trilogy with the aforementioned “Mighty Mouse.” And grappling star Kade Ruotolo appears to be like to go 2-0 in MMA when he faces off with Ahmed Mujtaba.
