In terms of age, UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) is considered a senior in organizing martial arts events, with the main MMA. Born in 1993 in the US, so far, UFC is the association comparison with FIFA in football or NBA of basketball. After nearly 30 years, UFC has raised many boxers such as Demetrious Johnson, Anderson Silva or Jon Jones. The coverage of UFC is extremely large when they organize about 40 events/year, and are broadcast in 149 countries and territories and 30 different languages.
With One Championship, they were born after UFC for nearly 20 years and are nearly 10 years old in July. Unlike UFC towards MMA, ONE Championship also organizes Muay Thai, and Kickboxing. Being born and headquartered in Singapore, One Championship focuses on exploiting the Asian market as the mainstream. They have organized more than 100 events so far with programs in cities across Asia until this time, possessing an approach of 1.7 billion viewers in 138 countries.
It is not too much to evaluate that focusing on the Asian market is a wise country of the ONE Championship leadership team. The organization of Chatri Sityodong and Victor Cui has almost dominated in this area, and gradually made UFC lose when he wanted to expand the “area” to the largest continent in the world.
The biggest difference between One Championship and UFC may come in how to operate the Competition Law in MMA. With the leading association in the free martial arts organization, UFC has built certain rules in the fighting competition that is considered “no law”. Currently, UFC uses the MMA Unified Rules Code set out by the US Sports Committee to avoid unfortunate damage or losses.
Like UFC and many other MMA tournaments, ONE Championship prohibits a lot of dangerous attacks (plugging, poking eyes, hitting the head, holding hair, breaking fingers, hooking open wounds …) as well as some fraudulent acts (holding iron cages, pulling opponents …). However, One Championship still uses a law and calculates its own points, consisting of permission ways such as techniques to enter the head area when the opponent has 3 ground touch points.
The territorial nature is part of the so -called “Culture of Culture”. UFC names events by numbering, corresponding to the order of the event organized, more “scientific”. Under the influence of Western media, especially in the United States, UFC boxers are often built like a star in the show-biz world. They are even by the media crews that create scandals, the enemy attacks to attract viewers.
That is not not appearing at One Championship, but has been moderated quite a lot. Instead, One Championship hits the martial spirit of traditional Asian martial arts. The evidence is located right in the name “pit” of events such as Battle of Heroes, Destiny of Warriors, Immortal Triumph, … One Championship considered each match as a battle to protect honor and to raise the pride of each martial artist's martial arts. This is a factor that makes Asians prefer to watch.
UFC also places the most important victory, even at all costs. Winning boxers will have everything, while the defeat can almost fall into oblivion. Meanwhile, One Championship besides finding the best person also creates conditions for a fighter to become the world's leading professional martial arts star. This lift increasingly attracts many prominent names to join One Championship.