According to the notice from ONE Championship, the focal match of the One Fight Night 8 event between Anatoly Malykhin and Arjan Bhullar will not happen as expected. The organizers said that this match had to be postponed because One has changed the terms of commitments with television partners. Most likely two boxers can play at the next big event.
More notably, this is not the first time the match between Anatoly Malykhin and Arjan Bhullar has been scheduled. These two fighters were supposed to meet in September last year. However, Bhullar's injury made them forced to delay the competition time. Bhullar currently holds the One Championship belt of Heavyweight, and Malykin holds the belt temporarily.
With the match between Anatoly Malykhin and Arjan Bhullar to move the schedule, the Organizing Committee of One Championship will push the Kickboxing battle to the center of the event. This is the match that the defending champion of the Flyweight Superlek Kiatmoo9 will defend the title before the opponent challenging the Rodang Jitmuangnon, who currently holds the champion of Muay Thai.
On the Arjan Bhullar side, the 37 -year -old boxer has not played for nearly 2 years. The last time he took place in April 2021. It was the Bhullar match defeating Brandon Vera in the second half to win the Heavyweight weight championship. The British belt protection schedule was then in a row for many different reasons.
As for Anatoly Malykhin, Russian boxers currently hold the Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight weight championship belts. At the age of 35, he still has a series of achievements. In the last 2 upper stations, Malykhin defeated the two monuments of One, Kirill Grishenko and Reinier de Ridder.