{"id":17720,"date":"2025-07-24T04:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17720\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T04:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T04:54:08","slug":"im-the-best-in-the-world-heavyweight-mma-star-ben-tynan-ready-to-make-statement-at-one-fight-night-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17720\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m The Best In The World\u2019 \u2013 Heavyweight MMA Star Ben Tynan Ready To Make Statement At ONE Fight Night 34"},"content":{"rendered":"

Undefeated Canadian star Ben Tynan<\/a> wants to continue his run of dominance and smash his way into the ONE Heavyweight MMA World Championship picture.<\/p>\n

The man known as \u201cVanilla Thunder\u201d will step closer to that goal when he faces former World Title contender Kirill Grishenko<\/a> in a heavyweight MMA showdown at ONE Fight Night 34 on Prime Video<\/a>, which airs live in U.S. primetime from Bangkok\u2019s Lumpinee Stadium on Friday, August 1.<\/p>\n

Tynan, a Canadian Junior Freestyle Wrestling National Champion and NCAA Division I National Champion qualifier, has been invincible ever since making the transition to MMA in 2017.<\/p>\n

The Dragonball Z fanatic<\/a> steamrolled his opponents in the amateur ranks, finishing all eight of them and picking up multiple titles along the way.<\/p>\n

That success followed him in his professional career, as he has a flawless 5-0 record with a 100 percent finishing rate.<\/p>\n

What makes Tynan so special is his decisive fighting style. The 31-year-old utilizes his world-class wrestling to land the takedown, and he\u2019ll continue overwhelming his rivals with heavy ground-and-pound or one of the many submissions in his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu arsenal.<\/p>\n

Combine that with his firepower and endurance, and it usually becomes a quick night for whoever stands across from him in the ring. He displayed that to perfection in his promotional debut against Kang Ji Won<\/a> in November 2023.<\/p>\n

In fact, Tynan is so confident in his skills that he believes no one can hang with him when combining wrestling with boxing.<\/p>\n

\u201cVanilla Thunder\u201d said:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what, my grappling is always going to be my bread and butter. And I mean this: there\u2019s no one who can hang with me in an MMA grappling setting. I honestly think I\u2019m the best in the world. If you throw on gloves and [add] punches and strikes, and go, \u2018Alright, grapple on the ground,\u2019 I\u2019m beating everyone. So that\u2019s always been my strength, and I still work it and sharpen it. But I train everything every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tynan will be meeting Grishenko, who has also been on a tear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old Belarusian enjoyed a hot start to his MMA run, using his elite Greco-Roman wrestling and striking prowess to win his first five matches and hand future ONE Heavyweight MMA World Champion \u201cReug Reug\u201d Oumar Kane<\/a> the only loss of his career.<\/p>\n

Though Grishenko fell in his next two battles, including a failed ONE Interim Heavyweight MMA World Title challenge against Anatoly \u201cSladkiy\u201d Malykhin<\/a> in February 2022, he went back to the lab and rebuilt his game.<\/p>\n

Grishenko continued to refine his grappling and spent plenty of time focusing his efforts in \u201cthe sweet science,\u201d ultimately winning a Belarusian National Boxing Championship.<\/p>\n

Those skills were on display in his recent back-to-back victories over Kang Mauro Cerilli. He would even use a leg kick to finish the latter.<\/p>\n

But despite Grishenko\u2019s striking and top-notch Greco-Roman wrestling, Tynan believes his skills, including his freestyle grappling prowess, are on another level:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a lot of his fights, no one has really gotten him on the ground for a long time. But I don\u2019t know. Not to be disrespectful, but I think Greco-Roman wrestlers are chumps. Sure, they got good upper bodies, but so much grappling is involved in the legs.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou always hear guys like, \u2018Oh, no, this guy\u2019s a Greco-this or Greco-that. It\u2019s like, \u2018Yeah, how\u2019s that going to stop my double leg? It\u2019s not.\u2019 You know what I mean? So, he might have decent grappling, but when you combine [it in a] sport like MMA, it\u2019s like, \u2018I\u2019ve got so many weapons, he ain\u2019t stopping \u2019em.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Tynan Plans To Finish Grishenko, Enter World Title Conversation<\/p>\n

Ben Tynan respects Kirill Grishenko\u2019s skills and accomplishments, but the Canadian heavyweight MMA star believes he\u2019ll overpower him at ONE Fight Night 34 on Prime Video.<\/p>\n

\u201cVanilla Thunder\u201d knows that he is a technical martial artist with more experience, but he doesn\u2019t feel threatened by the Belarusian one bit. As a matter of fact, he believes this will be an early night for the former ONE World Title challenger.<\/p>\n

Tynan said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to finish him, and I think he knows that threat is coming to him, whether I take him on the ground or take him out on the feet. I feel like he is going to be very cautious of my weapons, and I\u2019m going to land a lot of heavy shots.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Tynan were to emerge victorious, his eyes will be directly on the ONE Heavyweight MMA World Championship rematch between reigning titleholder \u201cReug Reug\u201d Oumar Kane and two-division king Anatoly Malykhin at ONE 173 in Tokyo, Japan, on November 16.<\/p>\n

In their first battle in November 2024, the Senegalese wrestling behemoth did just enough to hand Malykhin his first career loss and take the heavyweight gold via split decision. The bout was so close, the two are now running it back later this year in the Japanese capital.<\/p>\n

Tynan will be paying very close attention to the colossal showdown, as he\u2019ll want to challenge the victor for the divisional crown.<\/p>\n

The Canadian said:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of annoying that they\u2019re doing an immediate rematch because I feel like Anatoly already has two other belts. So it\u2019s like, \u2018Ok, we\u2019ll let them do a rematch, so I could beat up whoever wins that one.\u2019 But yeah, I definitely want a shot and get that belt.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undefeated Canadian star Ben Tynan wants to continue his run of dominance and smash his way into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-17720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}