Over a year of buildup. One hundred and eleven seconds to finish it. Now Marat Grigorian wants the title.<\/p>\n
Grigorian<\/a> stopped Kaito Ono at 1:51 of round one in a featherweight kickboxing bout at ONE SAMURAI 1<\/a>, on April 29 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan, earning his 70th career win in the process. The Armenian landed a right hand-left hook combination to set the trap, waited for Kaito to counter, then connected with the overhand right that put the Japanese standout flat on the canvas. The finish settled a rivalry that had simmered since their original ONE 172 booking collapsed in March 2025 when Grigorian missed the featherweight limit and Kaito refused a catchweight bout. The fallout was public. The result in Tokyo was not.<\/p>\n Grigorian stayed composed through every exchange and said the finish confirmed everything his camp had prepared. His coach had mapped out the sequence. Grigorian executed it without emotion and without deviation.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen that overhand right landed, and he went down, it was confirmation of all my hard work. Everything I saw in camp played out exactly how I had envisioned it would be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI stayed calm. There were no emotions involved. It was just me completing the job that I came to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Marat Grigorian wants a finish this time<\/p>\n Marat Grigorian has faced ONE Featherweight Kickboxing World Champion Superbon twice. Both fights went the full distance. He lost both. He has spent every session since then working on the adjustments that he believes will make their third meeting end differently.<\/p>\n The win over Kaito Ono puts him back at the front of the queue. Grigorian is not interested in another close call. He wants a stoppage, on his terms, with no judges involved.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m more complete now. Smarter, calmer, but still dangerous. I\u2019ve learned from every fight, especially the ones against him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be a different version of me in this next fight. I want to control, dominate, and finish him. I don\u2019t want to leave it to the judges this time and I want it in my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over a year of buildup. One hundred and eleven seconds to finish it. Now Marat Grigorian wants the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,316833,785,2843,258332,85],"class_list":["post-655106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-marat-grigorian","tag-mma","tag-one-championship","tag-one-samurai-1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655106","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=655106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}