ONE 167: Tawanchai vs. Nattawut 2 is an upcoming combat sport event produced by ONE Championship that will take place on June 8, 2024, at the Impact Arena in Bangkok, Thailand.
Fight Card
Main card (Prime)
Featherweight Muay Thai Tawanchai P.K.Saenchai (c) vs. Jo Nattawut Featherweight Muay Thai Championship
Flyweight Kickboxing Rodtang Jitmuangnon vs. Denis Purić
Bantamweight Submission Grappling Mikey Musumeci vs. Gabriel Sousa
Bantamweight Muay Thai Liam Harrison vs. Katsuki Kitano
Lightweight Kade Ruotolo vs. Blake Cooper
Featherweight Kickboxing Sitthichai Sitsongpeenong vs. Masaaki Noiri
Women's Atomweight Denice Zamboanga vs. Noelle Grandjean
Lightweight Adrian Lee vs. Antonio Mammarella
Flyweight Muay Thai Johan Ghazali vs. Nguyễn Trần Duy Nhất
Women's Atomweight Itsuki Hirata vs. Victória Souza
Bantamweight Muay Thai Johan Estupiñan vs. Zafer Sayik
Background
After the hosting events in Bangkok that took place in Lumpinee Boxing Stadium (hosted the ONE Friday Fights and ONE Fight Night), this event will be 17th promotion will host to Impact Arena and the first since ONE Fight Night 6 in January 2023.
A ONE Women's Atomweight World Championship bout between current champion (also ONE Women's Atomweight World Grand Prix winner, former ONE Women's Atomweight Muay Thai and Kickboxing World Champion) Stamp Fairtex and Denice Zamboanga was expected to headline the event. The bout was originally scheduled at ONE 166 on March 1, but the bout was moved to this event so the fighters can take part in the start of an original docuseries production. However on May 21, it was announced that Stamp was forced to withdraw due to serious knee injury. Zamboanga now is expected to face Noelle Grandjean instead.
A ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Championship bout between current champion Tawanchai P.K.Saenchai and Jo Nattawut was expected to served as the co-main event. Due to the originally main event was cancelled, the bout was promoted to main event instead. The pairing previously met at ONE Fight Night 15 in the Kickboxing match, which Tawanchai won by unanimous decision.
ONE Lightweight Submission Grappling Champion and 2022 ADCC World Champion Kade Ruotolo is expected to make his professional MMA debut against Blake Cooper, who his the brother of 2019 and 2021 PFL welterweight winner Ray Cooper III in a lightweight bout. Additionally, ONE Flyweight Submission Grappling World Champion Mikey Musumeci is expected to move up to bantamweight to face Gabriel Sousa in a submission grappling match.
A must-see blockbuster spectacle awaits the global fan base, as the world’s largest martial arts organization returns to Bangkok’s Impact Arena for ONE 167: Tawanchai vs. Nattawut II, which broadcasts live in U.S. primetime on Friday, June 7.
In the headline attraction, two of the most dangerous knockout artists on the planet meet in a high-stakes rematch – and the ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Title is on the line.
After edging out his compatriot in a nail-biting kickboxing war last October, reigning ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Champion Tawanchai PK Saenchai is determined to finish #3-ranked contender “Smokin” Jo Nattawut under his preferred rule set and establish himself as the most dominant striker the division has ever seen.
But Nattawut has the knockout power to end anyone’s night in the blink of an eye, and the Thai veteran is extra motivated to become the first man to put Tawanchai to sleep in ONE Championship and claim the richest prize in the sport.
Also, after nine months away, longtime ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon will finally return to action. But welcoming him back inside the Circle will be Denis Puric, who has called “The Iron Man” out for years and has promised to “make a fool out of him.”
Plus, ONE Lightweight Submission Grappling World Champion Kade Ruotolo makes his highly anticipated MMA debut, fellow submission grappling king Mikey Musumeci moves up a weight class to seek revenge against the last man to defeat him, and British superstar Liam Harrison and Malaysian wunderkind Johan Ghazali make their long-awaited returns.
