ONE FC 18 will take place on July 11th in Taiwan and the organization has added four new fights to the fight card, including a featherweight bout between Eric Kelly and Rob Lisita.
The other bouts announced by ONE FC today for the July 11th card in Taiwan are Sung Ming Yen vs. Muhamad Haider,
Zhang Zheng Jie vs. Raynner Kinsiong, and Nathan Ng vs. Florian Garel.
ONE FC 18 will come from the National Taiwan University Sports Center on July 11th and tickets recently went on sale for the event.
Kelly (10-1) has won three of his four fights in ONE FC with the only defeat coming against Honorio Banario at ONE FC 7 last year. Following that defeat, he returned nine months later and scored a submission victory outside of ONE FC against Jianbo Lu.
Lisita (14-5) is currently on a four fight winning streak and he won his ONE FC debut last month as he defeated Yusuke Kawanago by knockout in 28 seconds. During his winning streak, all four of the victories have come by stoppage and three of those wins have come by TKO/KO.
“ONE FC is bringing world-class mixed martial arts action to Taiwan for the first time on 11 July,” said ONE FC CEO Victor Cui. “Fans in Taipei will now get the opportunity to experience a night of adrenaline-pumping mixed martial arts action live!”
“Rob Lisita and Eric Kelly are two of the best featherweights in the world and both of them consistently deliver crowd-pleasing bouts. The winner of this bout will set himself up to challenge Koji Oishi, the reigning ONE FC Featherweight World Champion, for the title in the near future. This is one of the most anticipated sporting events in Taiwan in recent years and fans in Taiwan will finally get to enjoy explosive MMA action!”
The current ONE FC 18: War of Dragons fight card is below.
Paul Cheng (4-1) vs. Mahmoud Hassan (1-3)
Koji Ando (8-3-2) vs. Rafael Nunes (10-0)
Jake Butler (3-1) vs. Mohammed Ali (9-6)
Koetsu Okazaki (9-3-1) vs. Yusup Saadulaev (13-3-1)
Eric Kelly (10-1) vs. Rob Lisita (14-5)
Sung Ming Yen (2-1) vs. Muhamad Haider (2-1)
Zhang Zheng Jie (2-0) vs. Raynner Kinsiong (2-0)
Nathan Ng (0-0) vs. Florian Garel (2-3)