Filipina fan favourite Denice Zamboanga lastly climbed to the highest of the atomweight mountain at ONE Battle Night time 27 on Prime Video.
Returning to the legendary Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok for ONE Championship’s first occasion of 2025, Zamboanga scored a sensational second-round TKO in opposition to the returning Ukrainian standout Aloyna Rassohyna to say the interim ONE atomweight world championship.
As anticipated, Rassohyna incessantly shot in and tried to make the most of her world-class grappling abilities in opposition to the well-rounded Zamboanga. Nevertheless, it was ‘The Menace’ who managed to get the higher hand on the mat, typically stifling Rassohyna’s takedown makes an attempt and placing herself into an advantageous place.
Issues got here to a head within the last seconds of the second spherical with Zamboanga secured facet management within the nook of the ring and started reigning down a bevy of brutal elbows that finally compelled referee Herb Dean to step in and name for the stoppage with simply 13 seconds left within the spherical.
Official End result: Denice Zamboanga def. Alyona Rassohyna through TKO (ground-and-pound) at 4:47 of Spherical 2 to win the interim ONE atomweight MMA world championship.
For her dominant exhibiting, Zamboanga earned a $50,000 efficiency bonus from ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong. ‘The Menace’ additionally etched her title into the MMA historical past books because the first-ever Filipina blended martial arts world champion.
Subsequent, Zamboanga will look to commerce in her interim title for undisputed gold when she faces the reigning ONE atomweight MMA queen, Stamp Fairtex, later this 12 months.
