Following his win at ONE Fight Night 6, Chingiz Allazov has a solid argument for being the best striker on the planet.
Dethroning Superbon from his No.1 pound-for-pound spot, Allazov claimed the ONE featherweight kickboxing world championship in the process.
Though it may have been his hands that got the job done on Friday night, his kicking game is also lethal.
Throughout the ONE Featherweight Kickboxing World Grand Prix that he won to earn himself a shot at the world champion, one of the techniques that caught everyone's eye was his question mark kick that he landed with ruthless precision.
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In a video posted by ONE Championship on Instagram, ‘Chinga’ demonstrated the kick to commentator Mitch Chilson backstage:
“Any questions? 💯 @chingizallazov @mitchchilson”
Chilson replied to the caption by finishing off the sentence:
“Chingiz got answers.”
After demonstrating the technique in just two simple steps, the video then shows him landing it on his opponents, making it look easy to perfect the question mark kick.
Mitch Chilson is always getting fighters to demonstrate their signature moves backstage, and the videos always follow a specific formula. After a fighter demonstrates a technique in simple steps, the following videos show them landing it with \fluidity and power against some of the top fighters in the world.
Chingiz Allazov visits Superbon backstage to show respect after epic TKO win
After his dominant victory over Superbon to become the ONE featherweight kickboxing world champion, Chingiz Allazov showed respect to the former titleholder. On January 13 in Bangkok, ‘Chinga’ produced the best performance of his career to dethrone the pound-for-pound No.1 striker in the world.
In a video posted by ONE Championship on Instagram, Chingiz Allazov visited Superbon backstage at the Impact Arena to show respect to his opponent and his team.
Check out the video post below:
In what many believed would be a closely contested championship match-up, Chingiz Allazov absolutely dominated the entirety of the fight whilst it lasted. Putting pressure on his opponent from the moment the first bell rang, the challenger’s punching power was the story of the fight.
With a second-round knockout victory and a $50,000 performance bonus, the night belonged to ‘Chinga’. After the fight had been nearly a year in the making, there was so much hype for these two elite strikers to finally throw down.
Whilst the fight might not have lived up to its expectations as a back-and-forth war, it did produce what is sure to be one of the most impressive performances of the year in ONE’s first event of 2023.