{"id":602133,"date":"2026-04-12T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:38:08","slug":"reug-reug-vs-anatoly-malykhin-2-rescheduled-for-one-inner-circle-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602133\/","title":{"rendered":"Reug Reug vs. Anatoly Malykhin 2 rescheduled for ONE: Inner Circle in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The long awaited heavyweight title fight rematch between Oumar \u201cReug Reug\u201d Kane and Anatoly Malykhin has finally been rescheduled with the matchup set for ONE: Inner Circle on Friday, May 15 from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">ONE Championship officials confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The heavyweights were originally supposed to meet again this past November but \u201cReug Reug\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/one\/453775\/one-champion-reug-reug-involved-in-serious-car-accident\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was involved a \u201cserious car accident\u201d <\/a>just days before the fight was supposed to happen. As a result, ONE was forced to cancel the rematch while the reigning heavyweight champion recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now \u201cReug Reug\u201d has been cleared to return to action as he looks to defend his title against the man he beat for the belt in a razor-close split decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Overall, \u201cReug Reug\u201d sports a 7-1 record in his career including a win over current UFC heavyweight Marcus Buchecha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As for Malykhin, he returns to action after suffering the first loss of his career when he fell to Kane back in 2024. Prior to that setback, Malykhin captured titles in three different divisions in ONE after beating current UFC contender Reinier de Ridder in a pair of fights to take his light heavyweight and middleweight titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He also won the heavyweight title with a stoppage win over ex-UFC fighter Arjan Bhullar before dropping the split decision to \u201cReug Reug.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In addition to the heavyweight title fight main event, ONE previously announced that grappling sensation Kade Ruotolo returns to action for his fourth MMA fight when he faces Hiroyuki Tetsuka on May 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The long awaited heavyweight title fight rematch between Oumar \u201cReug Reug\u201d Kane and Anatoly Malykhin has finally been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,2843,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-one-championship","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602133","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=602133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}