Anatoly Malykhin has been virtually unbeatable in ONE Championship, but Arjan Bhullar, the current heavyweight world champion of ONE Championship, is confident that he has what it takes to put an end to the Russian’s dominance.
At the next ONE Friday Fights 22 event, which will take place this coming Friday at the illustrious Lumpinee Boxing Stadium, the light heavyweight and interim heavyweight world champion, Malykhin, will compete against Bhullar in a unification bout for the ONE undisputed heavyweight world title.
Bhullar completely minimized Malykhin’s significance in an interview with the South China Morning Post and claimed that he was confident in his ability to easily defeat the knockout machine in Bangkok.
Bhullar said:
“It shouldn’t be too difficult to go in there and finish guys off.”
Injuries and other extraneous circumstances caused the match between Bhullar and Malykhin to be postponed more several once before it was finally scheduled to take place in 2022. The match was expected to unify the heavyweight championships.
In spite of this, these two giants will at long last meet one another in the capital of Thailand.
Both competitors are at the pinnacle of their career and bring distinctive fighting styles to the table.
Malykhin is a lightning-fast and explosive heavyweight who is always ready to launch an assault at the drop of a hat. “Sladkiy” is deceptively agile for his stature, and he uses his quickness to aggressively chase down his opponents within the cage. His name comes from the word “slave,” which means “slave labor.”
Bhullar, on the other hand, approaches his battles with a strategy that is more deliberate. Wrestler of Olympic caliber, ‘Singh’ would use his grappling to neutralize the attacks of his opponents while also putting them in awkward positions.
In May of 2021, when he competed against Brandon Vera for the ONE heavyweight world title, the Indian star successfully accomplished this goal. Bhullar planned to conclude the bout with thundering strikes that rapidly broke down the gassed-out Filipino superstar after putting continual pressure on Vera with his wrestling. Bhullar had been wrestling Vera and putting constant pressure on him.
ONE Friday Fights 22 may be watched live and for free on the YouTube channel of ONE Championship as well as on the websites of its media partners.
