Rich Franklin is all in on ONE Championship’s latest invention. Franklin, a former UFC middleweight champion and current Vice President of ONE Championship, is very much enjoying the company’s new venture putting together fights that mix the styles and rules from various combat sports. The Asia-based promotion currently has a high-profile mixed rules fight coming up on Saturday’s ONE X event involving former UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson and muay Thai star Rodtang Jitmuangnon . The contest is set for four, three-minute rounds that alternate between muay Thai and MMA rules. The fight will start under muay Thai rules and will switch over the following rounds, pending a finish. Initially, Franklin said he wasn’t a big fan of the idea, because he wanted a traditional approach to ONE Championship’s MMA events.
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