{"id":677951,"date":"2026-05-18T04:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677951\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:44:12","slug":"the-best-pictures-from-the-inner-circle-on-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677951\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Pictures From The Inner Circle On May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONE Championship kicked off its monthly tripleheader with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/events\/one-friday-fights-154\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/events\/one-friday-fights-154\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Inner Circle<\/a>, which emanated live from the historic Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, May 15.<\/p>\n<p>The Asia primetime card, which streamed exclusively on <a href=\"https:\/\/live.onefc.com\/?utm_source=one_web&amp;utm_medium=article\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/live.onefc.com\/?utm_source=one_web&amp;utm_medium=article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live.onefc.com<\/a>, featured four explosive MMA and Muay Thai bouts that shocked fans both in the arena and those watching around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event, Russian powerhouse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/athletes\/anatoly-malykhin\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/athletes\/anatoly-malykhin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anatoly \u201cSladkiy\u201d Malykhin<\/a> avenged his lone career blemish, as he knocked out his arch-rival, Senegalese behemoth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/athletes\/oumar-kane\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/athletes\/oumar-kane\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cReug Reug\u201d Oumar Kane<\/a>, to reclaim the ONE Heavyweight MMA World Title and restore his status as a three-division king.<\/p>\n<p>Following the match, Malykhin laid down his gloves in the center of the ring and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/news\/the-inner-circle-on-may-15-main-event-result-anatoly-malykhin-bows-out-a-three-division-mma-world-champion\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/news\/the-inner-circle-on-may-15-main-event-result-anatoly-malykhin-bows-out-a-three-division-mma-world-champion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his retirement<\/a> from the sport. The Russian\u2019s legendary performance earned him a US$100,000 performance bonus.<\/p>\n<p>The co-main event also featured a highlight-reel moment that had the combat sports world buzzing.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning ONE Lightweight Submission Grappling World Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/athletes\/kade-ruotolo\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/athletes\/kade-ruotolo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kade Ruotolo<\/a> showcased the power in his hands by stopping former Pancrase Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/athletes\/hiroyuki-tetsuka\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/athletes\/hiroyuki-tetsuka\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hiroyuki \u201cJapanese Beast\u201d Tetsuka<\/a> in round two.\u00a0The spectacular finish marked Ruotolo\u2019s first-ever knockout victory in MMA and earned him a US$50,000 performance bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Before we turn the page, take a look at the best pictures from The Inner Circle, courtesy of our ringside photographers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONE Championship kicked off its monthly tripleheader with The Inner Circle, which emanated live from the historic Lumpinee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-677951","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\/677951","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=677951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}