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ONE Championship rankings: men’s pound for pound MMA, April 2023

  • In the first of a series of new ONE Championship rankings by the Post, we take a look at the top 10 men’s MMA fighters across all weight divisions
  • Here are our selections, including flyweight king Demetrious Johnson, and two-division champs Christian Lee and Anatoly Malykhin

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Chatri Sityodtong places the flyweight MMA title on Demetrious Johnson’s shoulder at ONE on Prime Video 1. Photos: ONE Championship

ONE Championship was founded in 2011, and in the intervening years, has assembled one of the deepest rosters of mixed martial arts talent of any promotion on earth.

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Some of the Singapore-based martial arts promotion’s top MMA fighters, like Demetrious Johnson and John Lineker, were signed from other organisations, like the UFC.

Yet many of ONE’s fiercest competitors, such as Christian Lee, Adriano Moraes, and Fabricio Andrade, are home-grown, having spent the bulk of their career competing under the promotion’s banner.

Here are our top 10 male MMA fighters in ONE. You can also check out our women’s MMA rankings, while men’s and women’s kickboxing and Muay Thai will be coming soon.
Demetrious Johnson poses with the ONE flyweight MMA title after knocking out Adriano Moraes.
Demetrious Johnson poses with the ONE flyweight MMA title after knocking out Adriano Moraes.

1. Demetrious Johnson (24-4-1) – Former UFC champ “Mighty Mouse” was already considered one of the best fighters on the planet when he arrived in ONE in 2019, but his flyweight title-winning knockout of Adriano Moraes at ONE Fight Night 1 last August cemented him as one of the greatest of all time – maybe even the best, full stop.

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The American, who also won ONE’s flyweight Grand Prix in 2019, will be back in action soon, as he looks to settle a 1-1 tie with Moraes at ONE Fight Night 10 on May 5 in Denver, Colorado – the promotion’s debut on US soil.

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