ONE FC 11: Total Domination | Bibiano Fernandes vs. Soo Chul Kim
A bantamweight title-unification bout will headline "ONE FC 11: Total Domination" in October.
Officials recently announced that reigning titleholder Soo Chul Kim (7-4) and interim champ Bibiano Fernandes (14-3) will meet in a title-unification bout at the event.
ONE FC 11 takes place Oct. 18 at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. It streams as part of an online pay-per-view in North America.
"We are coming back to Singapore to put on one of the greatest fight cards in Asian MMA history," ONE FC CEO Victor Cui stated. "We will finally settle the question of who deserves to be called the top bantamweight fighter on the planet."
Kim, a 21-year-old South Korean, will fight for the first time in a year following his recovery from a shoulder injury. Although he went just 1-4 from 2011-2012, he rebounded with three consecutive victories. It concluded a ONE FC title win over Leandro Issa, which came via knockout and won him the inaugural title at ONE FC 6.
He takes on Fernandes, who won the interim belt in May with a decision victory over Koetsu Okazaki. It marked the 33-year-old Brazilian's sixth straight win and his 13th victory in his past 14 fights. During that stretch, Fernandes, who's ranked No. 7 in the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA bantamweight rankings, won DREAM's bantamweight and featherweight titles during the stretch and defeated the likes of Yoshiro Maeda, Antonio Banuelos, Joachim Hansen and Joe Warren.
Also on the ONE FC 11 card, Singapore's Sherilyn Lim (0-0) makes her professional debut.
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