ONE Fight Night 12: Superlek vs. Khalilov is an upcoming Combat sport event produced by ONE Championship that will take place on July 15, 2023, at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
Fight Card
Main card (Amazon Prime Video)
Flyweight Muay Thai Superlek Kiatmuu9 vs. Tagir Khalilov Featherweight Garry Tonon vs. Shamil Gasanov Heavyweight Amir Aliakbari vs. Dustin Joynson Flyweight Xie Wei vs. Yuya Wakamatsu Featherweight Aaron Cañarte vs. Akbar Abdullaev Women's Atomweight Muay Thai Phetjeeja Lukjaoporongtom vs. Lara Fernandez Flyweight Walter Goncalves vs. Banma Duoji Women's Strawweight Submission Grappling Tammi Musumeci vs. Amanda Alequin Lightweight Kickboxing Constantin Rusu vs. Bogdan Shumarov
Background
A ONE Heavyweight World Championship unification bout between current champion Arjan Bhullar and interim champion Anatoly Malykhin was scheduled to headline the event. The pair were previously scheduled to square off at ONE 161 and then ONE Fight Night 8, but were moved to this event due to a change in broadcast commitments. However, on May 19, 2023, it was announced that the fight was moved to ONE Friday Fights 22.
A rematch for the ONE Featherweight World Championship between current champion Tang Kai and former champion Thanh Le was scheduled to headline the event. However, Tang withdrew from the fight due to a knee injury and the fight was cancelled.
A ONE Light Heavyweight Kickboxing World Championship bout between current champion Roman Kryklia and Françesko Xhaja was expected to headline the event. However, Xhaja withdraw from the bout due to injury. As a result, a flyweight muay thai bout between current ONE Flyweight Kickboxing Champion Superlek Kiatmuu9 and Tagir Khalilov is expected to main event status.
A featherweight bout between former ONE Featherweight title challenger and #2 ranked Garry Tonon and #5 ranked Shamil Gasanov is scheduled to served as the co-main event.
A women's atomweight muay thai bout between former WMC (-45 kg) World champion Phetjeeja Lukjaoporongtom and the reigning ISKA Oriental rules World Super Featherweight (−59 kg) champion Lara Fernandez is scheduled to take place at the event.
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