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FILIPINO LITO ADIWANG (right) dominated Japan’s Namiki Kawahara in their ONE Championship clash last Friday in Singapore. Mr. Adiwang knocked out his opponent in the second round with a well-timed left hook to the jaw. ONE CHAMPIONSHIP
AFTER an impressive knockout victory at ONE Championship’s “Unbreakable” event in Singapore last Friday, Filipino fighter Lito “Thunder Kid” Adiwang is now turning his attention on taking all comers in the promotion’s strawweight division.
Coming off a defeat in the ONE Circle late last year, Mr. Adiwang (12-3) said he is happy to be back on the winning track and is determined to stay the course moving forward.
Published January 21, 2021, 6:48 PM
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ONE Championship strawweight king Joshua Pacio of Team Lakay believes that his teammate Lito Adiwang is deserving of a rematch against Japanese fighter Hiroba Minowa.
The reigning strawweight champion is just one of the many witnesses among the audience who expressed that Minowa didn’t earn a “clear victory” against Adiwang.
It would be recalled that Adiwang lost to Minowa in a controversial split decision last November in ONE: Inside the Matrix III.
The Filipino rising star attempted several submissions in the first and second rounds on Minowa and the Japanese youngster can be seen, for most fans, tapping out on certain camera angles when Adiwang executed a kimura lock.