SEVEN Filipinos and 13 foreigners will battle it out at this Friday night’s ONE Fighting Championship (ONE FC) event titled ONE FC: Moment of Truth at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena in Pasay City.
Filipino Team Lakay striker Honorio “The Rock” Banario will attempt to get back his ONE FC Featherweight World Championship as he battles Japanese tormentor Koji Oishi in the main event.
The featured co-main event will be the fight between Kevin “The Silencer” Belingon, another Team Lakay fighter and undefeated Spaniard David Aranda Santacana in the bantamweight division.
Team Lakay member and former Southeast Asia wushu gold medalist Eduard Folayang hopes to stop a two-bout losing skid against Dutch-Indonesian shooto veteran Vincent Latoel.
The fourth bout is in the bantamweight division and pits former Japanese Shooto Featherweight Champion Koetsu Okazaki and jiu jitsu expert Joshua Alvarez.
Other bouts in the sizzling card pit American Marines Caros Fodor vs. South African muay Thai practitioner Vuyisile Collosa; Kamma Bantamweight Champion Dae Hwan Kim of South Korea vs. Thanh Vu of Australia; Team Lakay striker Geje Eustaquio vs. Eugene Toquero; Filipino World Wushu Champion Ruel Catalan vs. Kun Khmer Champion Cambodian Khim Dima; heavyweights Canadian heavyweight champion Paul Cheng vs. Cameroonian Alain Ngalani and top Filipino prospect Edward Kelly vs. Brazilian jiu jitsu purple belt holder Major Overall. /Correspondent Salven Lagumbay