ONE: Empower: Grace Cleveland replaces Ritu Phogat, Updated Fight Card

31 July 2021

ONE Championship will be rolling out ONE: Empower on 3 September 2021 and it will be headlined by the ONE Women’s Strawweight Title fight between Xiong Jing Nan and Michelle Nicolini.

The announcement was made by ONE Championship last day and as far as the Atomweight Grand Prix is concerned, Grace Cleveland will be replacing Ritu Phogat in the bracket and fighting Meng Bo.

Grace is currently undefeated in her MMA career and holds a professional MMA record of 5-0 to her name. Unbeaten Japanese prodigy Itsuki Hirata will square off against American Alyse Anderson, and #4-ranked Stamp Fairtex will rematch #3-ranked Alyona Rassohyna.

Apart from the ONE: Atomweight Grand Prix, The main card will also feature a ONE Super Series kickboxing battle between pound-for-pound great Anissa “C18” Meksen and ISKA Atomweight K1 World Champion Cristina Morales.

You can see the complete fight card for the event below.

Main Card For ONE: EMPOWER

• (c) Xiong Jing Nan vs. Michelle Nicolini (ONE Women’s Strawweight World Title)
• Denice Zamboanga vs. Seo Hee Ham (mixed martial arts – atomweight)
• Alyona Rassohyna vs. Stamp Fairtex (mixed martial arts – atomweight)
• Meng Bo vs. Grace Cleveland (mixed martial arts – atomweight)
• Itsuki Hirata vs. Alyse Anderson (mixed martial arts – atomweight)
• Anissa Meksen vs. Cristina Morales (kickboxing – atomweight)

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