ONE Championship Fight Night 14 weigh-ins: Stamp Fairtex survives scare, Xiong Jingnan misses mark
- Stamp will battle Ham Seo-hee for interim atomweight MMA gold in Saturday’s main event, and needed the curtain to make weight
- China’s Xiong missed weight for special rules clash with Wondergirl, as John Lineker and Stephen Loman made last-gasp passes
Thursday night’s ONE Championship Fight Night 14 weight and hydration checks were full of drama, with Stamp Fairtex getting an early scare, and Xiong Jingnan ultimately missing her mark.
The 26-year-old Thai Stamp, who is set to fight South Korea’s Ham Seo-hee for ONE’s interim atomweight MMA title in the main event of the Saturday morning event in Singapore, was one of the final fighters on the testing stage inside the host Copthorne King’s Hotel.
She passed her first hydration test, but then ran into trouble on the scale, weighing in at 115.25lbs behind the curtain – a quarter of a pound above the limit for her title fight.
Stamp (10-2) later returned to the testing area and passed both her hydration and weight checks to a wave of applause from her team, making her title fight with Ham (26-8) official. The 36-year-old Korean passed both her checks on the first attempt.
Xiong Jingnan was not so lucky.
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The Chinese star, ONE’s strawweight MMA champ, is set to meet Muay Thai transplant Wondergirl Jaroonsak in a special rules attraction on Saturday’s main card.
Unfortunately, their bout will now proceed as a catchweight after Xiong failed two hydration tests, and could not produce a third sample in the time allotted.
The issues seemed to come as a surprise for the MMA champion. When her first test result was read aloud, she celebrated as though she had passed, only to be corrected by ONE senior director of competition Ric Auty.
For nearly all of Thursday’s weight and hydration test proceedings, it looked as though bantamweight MMA contenders John Lineker and Stephen Loman would also miss their marks for their main card fight.
Brazil’s Lineker (36-10), who previously held ONE’s bantamweight MMA title, was the first fighter on the testing stage, and failed his hydration test.
Loman (17-2), coincidentally, was the last fighter to appear for testing, and had the opposite problem, passing his hydration test but missing weight.
With minutes left in the testing window, neither fighter had returned for a second attempt, and given that both have missed weight previously – Lineker many times – there was certainly cause for concern. Yet just when hope seemed lost, they re-emerged and passed their tests.
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Their fight will proceed as planned.
Cambodian-American Jessa Khan also ran into trouble, failing her first hydration test for her atomweight submission grappling title bout with Danielle Kelly, but came through on her second attempt.
American Muay Thai fighter Asa Ten Pow, who will meet Thailand’s Rambolek Chor Ajalaboon in a bantamweight bout on Saturday, had the same problem, but also passed his second test.
