Akbar Abdullaev will be ineligible to win the ONE Championship featherweight MMA title on Saturday after Thursday’s dramatic weigh-ins in Bangkok.
Half of the ONE Fight Night 27 card’s 10 matchups were affected, with six fighters in all missing their marks.
The Lumpinee Stadium main event took the biggest hit, with Kyrgyzstani title challenger Abdullaev twice failing to pass a hydration test during the official three-hour window.
Abdullaev, 27, was left needing to return with a hydrated sample before he could negotiate a catchweight with Tang Kai.
Should the fight go ahead, only the champion from China will be able to retain the belt.
Four other fighters failed to pass hydration on a busy evening at the host Best Western Wanda Plus hotel, while one – Parham Gheirati – did even turn up to the scales.
Iran’s Gheirati was set to make his debut in a bantamweight Muay Thai bout against Thailand’s Rambolek Ajalaboon, who had not issues.
John Lineker and Kulabdam Sor Jor Piek Uthai both failed multiple hydration tests and their bantamweight Muay Thai bout is likely to go ahead at a catchweight.
Former UFC star “Hands of Stone” Lineker has had a history of weight issues throughout his career, and even lost the ONE bantamweight MMA title on the scale in 2023.
Canadian debutant Cody Jerome both failed to pass two hydration tests for his featherweight Muay Thai against Luke Lessei of the US; Ecuador’s Aaron Canarte failed three attempts for his featherweight MMA fight with Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu of Mongolia – who is coming up from bantamweight.
Uzbekistan’s Sanzhar Zakirov left it late but came in with around an hour remaining to pass hydration and make weight for his strawweight MMA bout against Japan’s Tatsumitsu Wada.
The ONE Friday Fights graduate will hope to finally make his main roster debut at the third attempt after a matchup with Japan’s Hiroba Minowa twice fell through – most recently on the morning of the fight in October, after Minowa had suffered whiplash in a minor car accident in Bangkok.
The remaining five fights on Saturday’s card remained intact, including the other title bout for the ONE interim atomweight MMA belt, to be contested by Denice Zamboanga and Alyona Rassohyna.
Half of the ONE Fight Night 27 card’s 10 matchups were affected, with six fighters in all missing their marks.
The Lumpinee Stadium main event took the biggest hit, with Kyrgyzstani title challenger Abdullaev twice failing to pass a hydration test during the official three-hour window.
Abdullaev, 27, was left needing to return with a hydrated sample before he could negotiate a catchweight with Tang Kai.
Should the fight go ahead, only the champion from China will be able to retain the belt.
Four other fighters failed to pass hydration on a busy evening at the host Best Western Wanda Plus hotel, while one – Parham Gheirati – did even turn up to the scales.
Iran’s Gheirati was set to make his debut in a bantamweight Muay Thai bout against Thailand’s Rambolek Ajalaboon, who had not issues.
John Lineker and Kulabdam Sor Jor Piek Uthai both failed multiple hydration tests and their bantamweight Muay Thai bout is likely to go ahead at a catchweight.
Former UFC star “Hands of Stone” Lineker has had a history of weight issues throughout his career, and even lost the ONE bantamweight MMA title on the scale in 2023.
Canadian debutant Cody Jerome both failed to pass two hydration tests for his featherweight Muay Thai against Luke Lessei of the US; Ecuador’s Aaron Canarte failed three attempts for his featherweight MMA fight with Enkh-Orgil Baatarkhuu of Mongolia – who is coming up from bantamweight.
Uzbekistan’s Sanzhar Zakirov left it late but came in with around an hour remaining to pass hydration and make weight for his strawweight MMA bout against Japan’s Tatsumitsu Wada.
The ONE Friday Fights graduate will hope to finally make his main roster debut at the third attempt after a matchup with Japan’s Hiroba Minowa twice fell through – most recently on the morning of the fight in October, after Minowa had suffered whiplash in a minor car accident in Bangkok.
The remaining five fights on Saturday’s card remained intact, including the other title bout for the ONE interim atomweight MMA belt, to be contested by Denice Zamboanga and Alyona Rassohyna.
