As a commemorative event for the 10th anniversary of the ONE Championship, "ONE: X" has confirmed that it will arrange multiple World Championship matches as well as the high-profile mixed-rules crossover battle. Recently, the ONE Championship once again officially announced a legendary battle, with Australian standing fighting legend John Wayne Parr against Sanda master and Filipino mixed martial arts representative Eduard Folayang, and the two sides will meet under the rules of Muay Thai.
John Wayne Parr began his career in 1997, and the 45-year-old has been fighting in the fighting arena for 27 years. In the past 27 years, he has won multiple championship titles from WKN, WKBF, WMC, ISKA, WKBA, IMF and many other organizations, and has also reached the K-1 MAX Quarterfinals twice. He was Australia's greatest fighting champion at the time and one of the strongest non-Thai Muay Thai fighters in the world of an era. And "ONE X" on March 26 will be the final battle for his entire career.
For nearly three years, John Wayne Parr has continued his career with a frequency of one game a year, but has suffered three consecutive defeats and has not tasted victory in three years. But just three years ago, he won six consecutive games at the age of 40. In the last match, John Wayne Parr was brutally knocked out by stand-up fighting king-level player Nieky Holzken TKO for the first time in seven years. Perhaps it was also because of this game that John Wayne Parr realized that he would never be able to defeat the impeccable opponent of age, and he chose to play his own retreat battle in the ONE Championship.
And the opponent of this John Wayne Parr curtain battle is absolutely worthy of his identity and reputation. Flayan comes from the famous Philippine Lekay team, a well-known mixed martial arts team based on martial arts sanda, and has produced as many as five ONE Championship world champions, and Flayan is one of the most representative.
In 2016, Flayan was crowned the ONE Championship Lightweight World Champion in the third round of the Flying Knee TKO Japanese Tangling Master Shinya Aoki, while also bringing great shock to the entire Asian mixed martial arts community. Since then, Flajan has become a legendary Sanda player who competes in the Iron Cage.
But now that Flajan is 38 years old, flayan has begun to enter the trough of his career since regaining the world title in 2018. He has suffered four consecutive defeats, losing to China's Zhang Lipeng, who made his debut in the ONE Championship in his most recent match.
This time Flayan crossed the muay thai rules and became the opponent of John Wayne Parr's curtain battle, a way for one legend to pay tribute to another. At the same time, Flayan also hopes to use this as the beginning of his new career, and he wants to launch a challenge to the ONE Championship Muay Thai World Champion.
John Wayne Parr and Eduad Flajan, these two names alone contain too many legends. Now that the two fighters have met in the cage, the spirit of this duel has far exceeded the victory and defeat itself. Regardless of the outcome, John Wayne Parr will retire after this game, while Flajan will also embark on a new journey.