Filed under: News , Videos It was a big year for the Asia-based ONE Championship, which continued its global footprint in the MMA landscape. The promotion, which hosted 14 events this year (in locales ranging from Indonesia to Singapore to China to Myanmar to Thailand to the Philippines), has put together a slick 80-second recap of its year. ONE Championship, which launched in 2011 (as ONE FC), celebrated some major fights and events in 2017 They included: Welterweight champion Ben Askren made his third title defense, retired undefeated, and stopped MMA legend Shinya Aoki in just 57 seconds in his career finale. Atomweight champion and undefeated 21-year-old phenom Angela Lee notched a pair of title defenses with submission victories over Jenny Huang and Istela Nunes. Martin Nguyen became the organization’s first dual-division champion after the featherweight champ moved up to lightweight and knocked out Eduard Folayang. Longtime bantamweight champ Bibiano Fernandes registered his sixth straight title defense with a quick submission win over Andrew Leone
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Got 80 seconds? Watch ONE Championship’s thrilling 2017 recap – MMA Junkie