3 must-see fights at ONE Fight Night 9

ONE Championship continues to put on banger after banger in its monthly Amazon cards, and ONE Fight Night 9 on Prime Video is no different.

The promotion heads to the iconic Lumpinee Boxing Stadium on April 21 with what’s shaping up to be another huge card for the promotion.

ONE Fight Night 9 is ONE Championship's fourth Amazon card of the year and will be broadcast live and for free to all Prime Video subscribers in North America.

The card is stacked with fights under both Muay Thai and mixed martial arts, with the ONE bantamweight Muay Thai world title match between reigning world champion Nong-O Hama and Jonathan Haggerty closing the event.

While the bout between Nong-O and Haggerty deserves top billing, other matches are fully capable of blowing the roof off Bangkok’s legendary arena.

That being said, here are three must-see fights at ONE Fight Night 9.

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#3. Halil Amir vs. Maurice Abevi

Halil Amir needed just one match to catapult himself to the top tier of ONE Championship’s stacked lightweight division.

The Turkish star put on an absolute showing on his debut when he stopped the dangerous Timofey Nastyukhin at ONE on Prime Video 2 in October 2022. Amir’s win brought so much weight with it that he was quickly inserted as the No.4-ranked lightweight contender.

Maurice Abevi, meanwhile, will try to replicate what Amir did at ONE Fight Night 9.

The Swiss star is making his ONE Championship debut in Bangkok, bringing with him a 100 percent finish rate built on three knockouts and three submissions.

Amir, though, also has a 100 percent finish rate, but his record is littered with seven knockouts and just one submission.

Just from their records alone, Amir and Abevi’s meeting at ONE Fight Night 9 already has the potential of being named Fight of the Night.

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#2. Bokang Masunyane vs. Hiroba Minowa

If there’s a pair of fighters who are knocking on the doors of a world title opportunity, it has to be Bokang Masunyane and Hiroba Minowa.

Masunyane is the No.2-ranked strawweight contender while Minowa is at No.3. As fate would have it, the two dynamos are set to face each other at ONE Fight Night 9, with the winner potentially taking a step closer to that elusive world title shot.

Both fighters also started their ONE Championship careers on back-to-back wins before bowing to now ONE strawweight world champion Jarred Brooks.

Masunyane and Minowa’s match at ONE Fight Night 9 will surely shake up the strawweight rankings and there’s no question that Brooks will be keeping a close eye on his former opponents.

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#1. Nong-O Hama vs. Jonathan Haggerty

There’s no question as to why the world title match between Nong-O Hama and Jonathan Haggerty received top billing in the stacked ONE Fight Night 9 card.

Nong-O is already a combat sports legend and his run in ONE Championship has been nothing but perfection. The Thai megastar is the first and only ONE bantamweight Muay Thai world champion and was the owner of multiple Lumpinee Stadium world titles before he even stepped foot inside the circle.

The 36-year-old is also riding an incredible streak of 10 straight wins in as many matches in ONE Championship, with his last five fights all ending in a show-stopping knockout.

Haggerty, meanwhile, is a former ONE flyweight Muay Thai world champion. He snatched that gold away from the grasp of Thai legend Sam-A Gaiyanghadao back in May 2019.

‘The General’ is also on a solid run of form with three straight wins to his name. His upcoming fight against Nong-O, though, is just the second match he’ll have outside of the flyweight division.

Haggerty, who’s 10 years younger than Nong-O, will also be fighting in front of a hostile crowd who wants nothing else but to see their hometown hero retain his gold and extend his winning streak to 11 straight victories.

Nevertheless, excitement is steadily building up for the matchup between the two generational stars.