5 female ONE Championship fighters you need to follow on TikTok right now

ONE Championship is home to some of the best fighters around the globe. The promotion offers opportunities for its athletes to showcase their talents in various martial arts disciplines.

However, more than being athletes, these ONE competitors are just everyday normal people who enjoy spending time on social media. It can be to interact with friends, fans, or strangers, share their highlight reels, or just let off steam by doing something they enjoy.

One of the most popular social media platforms today is TikTok, because of its easy-to-use interface for creating content and how easily content can be shared or viewed. As such, it’s not surprising to see that some fighters in ONE Championship have already joined in on the platform.

While ONE Championship offers a stage for their martial arts prowess, TikTok provides these athletes with an avenue to show their fun side. If you don’t follow MMA but enjoy watching content over at TikTok, then these female fighters from ONE may just be able to help serve as a bridge to connect the two.

From entertaining and relatable dances to impressive training videos and much more, here are five female ONE Championship fighters you need to follow on TikTok today.

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#5. Denice Zamboanga - No.2-ranked ONE women's atomweight

One of the fastest rising stars in ONE Championship, Denice Zamboanga burst onto the division like a house on fire, defeating two top contenders right away in Jihin Radzuan and Mei Yamaguchi.

Zamboanga is ruthless in the ONE Circle, with five of her eight victories ending before the final bell. However, outside of it, she is just a donut-loving dance aficionado who is crazy about her dog.

She’ll even drag in others to humor her antics, like her brother and fellow ONE athlete Drex Zamboanga.

Watch Zamboanga as she does her versions of the latest TikTok trends as well as offering a peek at what goes on in the gym when she trains.

As of this writing, Zamboanga has 10.4k followers on the social media platform (TikTok profile @denicedz) with 57.9k likes. You can also follow her on her other social media pages such as Instagram and Facebook for more content.

#4. Itsuki Hirata - ONE Women's Atomweight World Grand Prix semifinalist

Undefeated Japanese fighter Itsuki Hirata is one of the most promising youngsters in ONE Championship.

In 2019, the 22-year-old joined the promotion fresh off winning the Fighting Agent War Tournament Champion in Japan. She took no time to make an impression, showcasing an all-around game in stopping her first three opponents inside three rounds.

She advanced to the semifinals of the ONE Women’s Atomweight World Grand Prix but had to pull out of her match due to injury. While it's only a matter of time until we see her crack the ONE women's atomweight rankings, she certainly has to make this list.

Apart from her impressive in-ring skills, Hirata also caught the attention of anime fans because of her uncanny resemblance to a popular Dragon Ball Z character.

Very few could argue that the nickname 'Android 18' fits her perfectly. Like the anime character, Hirata also possesses incredible fighting ability and is rather attractive.

While she's a monster in the Circle, Hirata is such a colorful character off it, as evidenced by her social media pages.

Hirata has 22.5k followers on TikTok (@_itsuki_h_), with 49.3k likes, and also posts content on her verified Instagram account.

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#3. Alyse Anderson - ONE Women's Atomweight World Grand Prix participant

Alyse Anderson made her promotional debut as part of the ONE Women’s Atomweight World Grand Prix. While she couldn’t advance in the tournament, she battled Itsuki Hirata through all three rounds of their match, putting an end to ‘Android 18’s’ incredible run of finishing her opponents.

The 26-year-old holds a professional record of five wins and two losses and is considered one of the best atomweight competitors in North America. Now that she has arrived in the promotion, there is no doubt that will become a fixture in ONE’s women’s atomweight division in the near future.

While we wait for her next match in ONE Championship, you can see what she’s up to on her TikTok channel.

Like Denice, she is also a dog lover and cares for a pet French Bulldog. She’s also into motocross and shares some of her adrenaline-fueled exploits on a dirt bike through her channel.

We also learned from her feed that she was a collegiate soccer player before making the transition to mixed martial arts.

Anderson regularly updates her TikTok (@alyseanderson21) and has amassed 155.5k followers and 3.4M likes.

#2. Ritu Phogat - ONE Women's Atomweight World Grand Prix finalist

Ritu Phogat is hailed as one of the best wrestlers to come out of India, having won prestigious competitions in the sport. Phogat and her sisters were even the inspiration for Dangal, the highest grossing movie in Indian history.

However, she shocked the world by deciding to focus on mixed martial arts. In 2019, she moved to Singapore to join the famed Evolve MMA. Soon after, Phogat made her professional debut in ONE Championship.

Phogat has been one of the busiest fighters in ONE, taking every fight that came her way and already has nine bouts under her belt despite the pandemic putting a halt on most sporting events. ‘The Indian Tigress’ is one of the fiercest competitors in the division, reaching the finals of the ONE Women’s Atomweight World Grand Prix opposite eventual tournament champion, Stamp Fairtex.

Her intense training videos on TikTok give you an idea of how she’s been able to find success in ONE Championship despite being a relative newbie to MMA

When she’s not sharing videos of her training, Phogat’s choice of fun is lip-syncing to songs and scripts. Phogat currently has 322.2k followers on TikTok (@rituphogat48) and has gained a whopping 2.9M likes.

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#1. Stamp Fairtex - ONE women's atomweight world title challenger

Muay Thai fighters traditionally do a pre-fight dance to warm up and stretch, as well as honor the people who helped them in their journey. While this remains the goal of the dance during her entrance, Stamp Fairtex has made her ritual a must-see for fans as she makes her way down the ONE Championship Circle.

However, once the opening bell rings, she transforms into one of the hardest hitting fighters in the world. That helped her claim the ONE atomweight Muay Thai and kickboxing world titles to become a two-sport world champion.

While she lost both titles, she dusted it off quite well by winning the first-ever ONE Women’s Atomweight World Grand Prix Championship in style, forcing world-class grappler Ritu Phogat to tap out to an armbar.

Stamp will soon challenge Angela Lee for the ONE women’s atomweight world title. As we wait for that blockbuster showdown, we can catch more of Stamp’s bubbly personality and love for dancing through her TikTok page.

Stamp currently has 241.4k followers in her channel (@stamp_fairtex) and her posts have garnered a total of 3.8M likes and counting.