“One Fight Night 15: Tawanchai vs Superbon will have a pair of world championship struggle. It is the competition in the MMA Featherweight category between the two boxers Thanh Le and Ilya Freymanov. The event took place at Lumpine Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on October 6,” the One Championship homepage announced.
Initially, One Championship plans to arrange the match to protect the championship in this weight between the defending champion of Tang Kai and Thanh Le. However, this plan must be postponed due to Tang Kai injury. This was close to the competition day, so the One Championship could not find another boxer to fight Thanh Le.
On that basis, ONE Championship is ranked into a temporary championship with Ilya Freymanov. The winner in this pair will have the opportunity to challenge the unified belt before Kai. In the most optimistic prospect, Tang Kai can return to play later this year with Thanh Le or Ilya Freymanov.
Thanh Le was born in 1985 (38 years old), with a professional MMA competition of 16 matches, including 13 wins (12 no, 1 submission) and 3 defeats. He attended UFC boxing events, then conquered the MMA Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA). From 2019 until now, Thanh Le joined the One Championship.
In the One arena, Thanh Le used to own a series of 5 consecutive victories, including defeating many rivals like Martin Nguyen and Garry Tonon. At the event of One 160 took place in August22, Thanh Le received a defeat by calculating before the Kai funeral, thereby losing the MMA ONE Championship belt of the Featherweight weight class.
As for Ilya Freymanov, the Russian boxer is 10 years younger than Thanh Le. He owns a professional MMA competition of 14 matches, including 12 wins (9 no, 1 submisison) and 2 defeats. Ilya Freymanov greeted One Championship with the victory over Martin Nguyen in One Fight Night 2 in September 2022.