{"id":606817,"date":"2026-04-16T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606817\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:09:10","slug":"one-samurai-1-full-card-revealed-with-hiroki-akimoto-vs-taimu-hisai-added-to-tokyo-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606817\/","title":{"rendered":"ONE SAMURAI 1 full card revealed with Hiroki Akimoto vs. Taimu Hisai added to Tokyo lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/one-championship\/hiroki-akimoto-determined-to-score-decisive-victory-at-one-friday-fights-81\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hiroki Akimoto<\/a> will return to action in front of his home fans when he meets 20-year-old Taimu Hisai in a bantamweight kickboxing clash at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onefc.com\/events\/one-samurai-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ONE SAMURAI 1<\/a> on Wednesday, April 29, broadcasting live from Ariake Arena in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The addition completes the card for ONE\u2019s inaugural monthly event in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Akimoto carries a 28-4 professional record and an 8-4 mark inside ONE into this homecoming appearance. The Power of Dream fighter is a Kyokushin Karate specialist. His explosive combination work has been his calling card throughout a career that reached its peak at ONE X.<\/p>\n<p>There, he defeated Capitan Petchyindee to become Japan\u2019s first-ever ONE Kickboxing World Champion. He lost the belt in his next outing and absorbing two further defeats. But Akimoto has rebuilt with back-to-back wins over John Lineker and Wei Rui heading into this assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Standing across from him is a 20-year-old with eyes on making an immediate name for himself on the global stage. Hisai trains at Team Taimu, carries a 20-6 professional record, and scored a winning ONE debut against Zhang Jingtao.<\/p>\n<p>A victory over a former divisional champion in just his second appearance would put the rest of the bantamweight kickboxing division on notice.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>ONE SAMURAI 1 full card<\/p>\n<p>ONE SAMURAI 1 features four ONE World Title fights headlined by one of the most anticipated rematches in recent ONE history. The full card is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rodtang Jitmuangnon vs. Takeru Segawa (ONE Interim Flyweight Kickboxing World Championship)<br \/>\u2022 Yuya Wakamatsu vs. Avazbek Kholmirzaev (ONE Flyweight MMA World Championship)<br \/>\u2022 Nadaka vs. Songchainoi Kiatsongrit (ONE Atomweight Muay Thai World Championship)<br \/>\u2022 Jonathan Haggerty vs. Yuki Yoza (ONE Bantamweight Kickboxing World Championship)<br \/>\u2022 Marat Grigorian vs. Kaito (kickboxing \u2013 featherweight)<br \/>\u2022 Ayaka Miura vs. Chihiro Sawada (MMA \u2013 atomweight)<br \/>\u2022 Hiroki Akimoto vs. Taimu Hisai (kickboxing \u2013 bantamweight)<br \/>\u2022 Hiromi Wajima vs. Ricardo Bravo (kickboxing \u2013 featherweight)<br \/>\u2022 Itsuki Hirata vs. Ritu Phogat (MMA \u2013 atomweight)<br \/>\u2022 Tatsumitsu Wada vs. Seiichiro Ito (MMA \u2013 flyweight)<br \/>\u2022 Keito Yamakita vs. Ryohei Kurosawa (MMA \u2013 strawweight)<br \/>\u2022 Shimon Yoshinari vs. Johan Ghazali (Muay Thai \u2013 flyweight)<br \/>\u2022 Toma Kuroda vs. Toki Tamaru (kickboxing \u2013 atomweight)<br \/>\u2022 Hyu vs. Taiki Naito (kickboxing \u2013 flyweight)<br \/>\u2022 Kanata Nagai vs. Atsuya Kambe (MMA \u2013 bantamweight)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hiroki Akimoto will return to action in front of his home fans when he meets 20-year-old Taimu Hisai&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,229024,638,1865,203447,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-606817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-hiroki-akimoto","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-one-championship","14":"tag-one-samurai-1","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}