ONE 171: Qatar is an upcoming combat sports event produced by ONE Championship that will take place on February 20, 2025, at Lusail Sports Arena in Lusail, Qatar.
Fight Card
Main card (YouTube / Watch ONE)
Strawweight Joshua Pacio (c) vs. Jarred Brooks (ic) Strawweight Championship
Bantamweight Kickboxing Jonathan Haggerty (c) vs. Wei Rui Bantamweight Kickboxing Championship
Welterweight Roberto Soldić vs. Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev
Bantamweight Kickboxing Petchtanong Petchfergus vs. Ilias Ennahachi
Middleweight Aung La Nsang vs. Shamil Erdogan
Featherweight Shamil Gasanov vs. Martin Nguyen
Bantamweight Bibiano Fernandes vs. Kevin Belingon
Heavyweight Mauro Cerilli vs. Kirill Grishenko
Bantamweight Muay Thai Jake Peacock vs. Shinji Suzuki
Women's Atomweight Ritu Phogat vs. Ayaka Miura
Lightweight Kade Ruotolo vs. Nicolas Alejandro Vigna
Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Openweight Submission Grappling Zayed Alkatheeri vs. Mohammed Hilal Ahmad Abu Rumuh
Lightweight Abdullo Khodzhaev vs. Wilian Poles
Featherweight Hussein Salem vs. Walter Cogliandro
Background
Nearly a year after its captivating maiden voyage to Qatar, ONE Championship will make its highly anticipated return to the Middle Eastern country for ONE 171: Qatar, which will be broadcast live from the state-of-the-art Lusail Sports Arena on Thursday, February 20, 2025.
This blockbuster spectacle will feature ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Champion Jonathan “The General” Haggerty, who will defend his coveted gold for the first time. Standing across from him will be the #1-ranked contender, Wei Rui, a Chinese kickboxing megastar who is riding an astonishing 21-fight winning streak.
Also, reigning divisional king Joshua “The Passion” Pacio and interim titleholder Jarred “The Monkey God” Brooks will meet in a trilogy bout to unify the ONE Strawweight MMA World Championship.
Plus, several more global martial arts superstars and regional sensations will be added to the lineup in the weeks to come.
The event will mark the promotion's second visit to Qatar and first since the country's much anticipated debut at ONE 166 in March 2024.
A ONE Strawweight World Championship unification bout and trilogy between current champion Joshua Pacio and former champion (also a current interim champion) Jarred Brooks was scheduled to serve as the co-main event, but was elevated as the event's headliner. The pairing previously met at ONE 164, where Brooks captured the title by unanimous decision. The second time met at ONE 166 in March 2024, which Pacio capture back the title by disqualification.
A ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Championship bout between current champion Jonathan Haggerty (also former ONE Bantamweight and Flyweight Muay Thai World Champion) and former K-1 Lightweight Champion Wei Rui was originally scheduled to headline the event, but the bout was shifted to the co-main event instead.
A featherweight bout between former ONE Featherweight and Lightweight Champion Martin Nguyen and Shamil Gasanov is scheduled at the event. The pair was previously scheduled to meet at ONE Fight Night 7 in February 2023, but Gasanov was forced to withdraw due to an infection that stemmed from an injury.
Zayed Alkatheeri and Jarrah Alhazza were reported to scheduled at this event in a flyweight submission grappling bout. However, Alhazza was pulled out from the event and was replaced by Mohammad Hilal Ahmad Abu Rumuh in a openweight bout.
