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Kemal
02-08-2016, 20:41
ONE Championship will return to Indonesia later this month with a former champion in the main event.

Ex-middleweight titleholder Igor Svirid (10-2) will take on Brazil’s Luis Santos (62-9-1) in the headlining bout of “ONE Championship 46: Titles and Titans.” The promotion recently announced the main event, as well as five other bouts for the card.

ONE Championship 46 takes place Aug. 27 at Jakarta Convention Center in Jakarta, Indonesia. The card will stream as an online pay-per-view.

Also booked for the card: Jake Butler (7-1) vs. Marcin Prachnio (11-2) at light heavyweight; Edward Kelly (7-3) vs. Vincent Latoel (16-17-2) at featherweight; Sami Amin (5-3-1) vs. Anthony Engelen (4-2) at featherweight; Yohan Mulia Legowo (8-4) vs. Sunoto Peringkat (4-2) at featherweight; and Bernard Soriano (2-2) vs. Mario Wirawan (5-3) at bantamweight.

“These are exciting times for Asian MMA,” ONE Championship CEO Victor Cui stated. “As ONE Championship continues to push the envelope in sports entertainment across the region, delivering to fans world-class mixed martial arts action, Jakarta is once again set for another explosive evening of fights. In a truly international fight experience, Brazil takes on Kazakhstan as Luis Santos faces the toughest test of his career against the heavy-handed Igor Svirid.”

Svirid won ONE Championship’s middleweight belt with a stunning 17-second knockout of Leandro Ataides at ONE Championship 22 in November 2014. But he dropped the belt 11 months later when he was stopped by Vitaly Bigdash at ONE Championship 32. That loss snapped a 10-fight winning streak.

Santos has an impressive 49 stoppage wins in his equally impressive 62 career victories. The Brazilian hasn’t lost in more than four years, since a two-fight skid to Ben Saunders and Ryan Ford under the Bellator banner. Since then, he has eight wins and an infamous no-contest after he suffered an accidental eye poke in a welterweight title fight against Ben Askren in April 2015. He returned at ONE Championship 39 in February and took out Rafael Silva with a knee and soccer kicks in the first round.

Luis Santos vs. Igor Svirid
Jake Butler vs. Marcin Prachnio
Edward Kelly vs. Vincent Latoel
Sami Amin vs. Anthony Engelen
Yohan Mulia Legowo vs. Sunoto Peringkat
Bernard Soriano vs. Mario Wirawan