![]() ![]() ONE made its PPV debut at ONE Fighting Championship: Rise of Kings via iN DEMAND, Avail-TVN, DirecTV and Dish. On 30 January 2012, they signed a 10-year deal with ESPN Star Sports. (delayed in 2022–2023) and BTV (repeat only for 2022–present) in Indonesia, MediaCorp Channel 5 (temporarily) in Singapore, ABS-CBN S+A/ TV5/ One Sports/ LIGA Channel in the Philippines, MyTV in Cambodia, Astro Arena, TV9 and RTM in Malaysia, Workpoint TV, Thairath TV (2016–2022) and Channel 7 (2023–present) in Thailand, TV Tokyo and AbemaTV in Japan. Former Strikeforce and UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Miesha Tate was a vice president of ONE from 2018 until 2021, when she returned to active competition as a fighter. ONE co-founder Victor Cui was CEO International until leaving the organization in early 2022 to become president and CEO of the Edmonton Elks. Former commentators include Michael Schiavello. The regular colour commentators for the English-language television broadcasts are Mitch Chilson, Brent Stover, and Rich Franklin, although Josh Thomson, Jason Chambers, Bas Rutten and Renzo Gracie have appeared as guest commentators. The ring announcer for ONE Championship is Dom Lau. The referees include Olivier Coste, Mohamad Sulaiman, Kemp Cheng and Justin Brown for MMA matches and Elias Dolaptsis for Muay Thai and Kickboxing matches. ![]() In May 2014, former UFC Middleweight Champion Rich Franklin became a vice president of ONE Championship. Matches are made by matchmaker and Vice President of Operations, Matt Hume. ONE Championship is operated by Group ONE Holdings, whose leadership and executive team are chairman and chief executive officer Chatri Sityodtong, vice chairman Saurabh Mittal, group president Hua Fung Teh, and chief financial officer Jesley Chua. Sityodtong stated his goal was to create the first Pan-Asian martial arts company, and to promote "values of integrity, humility, honor, respect, courage, discipline, and compassion", which he believes Western MMA promotions have lost. In 2022, ONE's parent company, One Group Holdings, changed its legal operations from Singapore to the Cayman Islands. The promotion would reach a value of over $1 billion by October 2018. One is considered to be Asia's largest combat sports promotion, with investors including GIC and Temasek Holdings, in addition to ICONIQ Capital, Mission Holdings, Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks Capital. One held its first event on 3 September 2011 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, and has since held over 200 events across Asia. Originally focused on mixed martial arts (MMA), One has since expanded to regularly hold events featuring Muay Thai, kickboxing, and submission grappling bouts, while also previously promoting boxing and Lethwei matches. One Championship (styled ONE Championship or simply ONE formerly One Fighting Championship ( ONE FC) until January 2015) is a multinational combat sports promotion founded on 14 July 2011 by Chatri Sityodtong and Victor Cui. ![]()
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