ONE Fight Night 44 Highlights | Shocking KOs and Wild Finishes
ONE Fight Night 44 highlights deliver knockouts, upsets and chaos
ONE Fight Night 44 gave Bangkok another packed night of martial arts, mixing MMA, Muay Thai, kickboxing and submission grappling inside Lumpinee Stadium. The event had everything from tactical decisions to sudden stoppages, but the knockouts were what turned this card into a genuine highlight-reel show.
George Jarvis closed the night with a dramatic comeback against Rungrawee Sitsongpeenong. After surviving danger himself, the British striker found the finish in the second round and left with another major Muay Thai victory. Earlier on the card, heavyweight finisher Paul Elliott needed only six seconds to produce one of the fastest and most violent endings of the entire event.
These ONE Fight Night 44 highlights bring together the best moments from another multi-discipline card by ONE Championship, also widely searched by fans as ONE FC. There were clean knockouts, difficult grappling exchanges, an important lightweight MMA result and several fighters making sure their names would not be forgotten after the final bell.
Paul Elliott scores a six-second heavyweight knockout
Elliott’s fight with Regan Upshaw barely had time to begin. The two heavyweights moved toward the centre, Elliott gave a quick feint and then launched a left high kick that landed flush. Upshaw collapsed immediately, with one final follow-up strike ending the contest after only six seconds.
It was exactly the kind of finish expected whenever Elliott competes. Every victory of his career has come inside the distance, and this may have been the cleanest of them all. Against a powerful former college football player making his ONE debut, Elliott did not need to wrestle, build combinations or slowly break his opponent down. One opening was enough.
The knockout instantly became one of the defining ONE Fight Night 44 highlights and added another brutal finish to ONE Championship’s heavyweight MMA collection.
Lucas Gabriel earns his biggest MMA win
Lucas Gabriel faced the most accomplished opponent of his career in former ONE lightweight champion Ok Rae Yoon. The Brazilian did not get an easy path through the fight, but he repeatedly created danger through scrambles, back takes and submission attempts.
Gabriel came close with a rear-naked choke and later trapped Ok in a difficult twister position. The former champion survived and had success of his own from top position, leaving the judges with a close fight to score. Gabriel ultimately took the split decision and remained unbeaten under the ONE Championship banner.
It was not the instant knockout seen elsewhere on the card, but it may have carried the biggest consequences. Defeating a former world champion places Gabriel much closer to the top of the ONE lightweight MMA division and gives him a serious result to build on.
Karen Ghazaryan ruins an unbeaten prospect’s debut
Karen Ghazaryan arrived needing a response after suffering the first defeat of his professional career. Standing across from him was undefeated Japanese newcomer Hisashi Ezaki, a grappling specialist expected to cause major problems on the ground.
Ezaki did find his positions and moved through several submission attempts, but Ghazaryan stayed calm, escaped and forced the fight back onto the feet. Once there, the Armenian began landing hard punches and uppercuts, steadily damaging his opponent before the end of the opening round.
Ezaki was unable to continue when the second round was due to begin, giving Ghazaryan a first-round TKO and an immediate return to the win column. It was a gritty performance rather than a quick blowout, and it showed that Ghazaryan could survive a dangerous grappler before taking over with his striking.
ONE Fight Night 44 had more than MMA finishes
The madness was spread across every rule set. Charlie Guest stopped Sam Fitzgerald in the second round of their featherweight Muay Thai fight, while Owen Jones upset Fabricio Andrey by split decision in a tense submission grappling match filled with leg-lock battles and late escapes.
Johan Estupinan continued building momentum in flyweight kickboxing, Nakrob Fairtex outworked Jacob Smith, and the Jarvis-Rungrawee rematch gave the event a fittingly dramatic ending. It was a classic ONE FC card in the sense that no single discipline controlled the night. Fans could move from MMA to grappling, then straight into kickboxing and Muay Thai without the pace dropping.
ONE Fight Night 45 brings five more MMA fights to Bangkok
The next U.S. primetime event is ONE Fight Night 45, scheduled for July 17 at Lumpinee Stadium. Luke Lessei and Mohamed Younes Rabah headline in featherweight Muay Thai, but the supporting lineup is especially deep for MMA fans.
Sanzhar Zakirov vs Ruslan Satiev matches two unbeaten flyweights in one of the card’s most intriguing fights. Zakirov already has important ONE Championship experience, while Satiev arrives with a perfect record and a long list of finishes.
Bokang Masunyane vs Seung Chul Lee brings elite wrestling against a dangerous South Korean finisher. Masunyane remains one of Africa’s best strawweight fighters, but Lee enters with four straight ONE wins and the confidence of someone moving quickly toward the division’s leading names.
The flyweight meeting between Lito Adiwang and Joshua Perreira should be fought at a much faster pace. Adiwang has been part of the ONE roster for years, while Perreira is coming off a rapid knockout and now gets the chance to defeat a recognised contender.
Jihin Radzuan vs Anastasia Nikolakakos adds an important women’s atomweight contest, with Radzuan’s experience meeting the pressure and physicality of the unbeaten Canadian.
The MMA lineup is completed by Ayaka Miura vs Victoria Souza. Miura’s judo and trademark scarf-hold attacks create a very specific problem, while Souza needs a strong response after a difficult return to competition.
ONE Fight Night 44 set the standard with a six-second knockout, a comeback main event and several major upsets. Three weeks later, ONE Fight Night 45 returns with another card built to move contenders forward quickly.
