Nong-O Hama is moving on in the ONE Flyweight Muay Thai World Grand Prix. The Thai veteran beat Rodtang Jitmuangnon by unanimous decision Friday at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, winning the first quarterfinal of the tournament at The Inner Circle 38, according to results posted by Cageside Press.
Cageside framed it as a battle of former champions, and ONE’s own promotion leaned hard on the buildup. The company’s X account called it a “long-awaited showdown” while posting footage of the fighter billed as The Iron Man greeting family before the walk. Plenty of people waited a long time for this one. It went the full distance, and the judges agreed on Nong-O.
PTT ends it early
On the same Inner Circle card, PTT Apichart Farm stopped Hamza Rachid by knockout at 2:37 of Round 1. The rest of that card went like this:
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- Nong-O Hama def. Rodtang Jitmuangnon, unanimous decision (Muay Thai)
- PTT Apichart Farm def. Hamza Rachid, KO at 2:37 of Round 1 (Muay Thai)
- Lenny Blasi def. Adam Benwarwar, unanimous decision (Muay Thai)
- Songpandin Chor Kaewwiset def. Petubon Sor Teanchai, split decision (Muay Thai)
- Banluelok Sitwatcharachai def. Mya Lone Chaw, KO at 1:04 of Round 2 (Muay Thai)
Friday Fights 178 opens with Shimon vs. Ondash
ONE Friday Fights 178 led off with the second Grand Prix quarterfinal, Japan’s Shimon Yoshinari against Ramadan Ondash, who goes by The Scorpion. ONE posted pre-fight clips of Shimon doing light sparring with Nadaka and of Johan Ghazali checking in on Ondash backstage, then confirmed both men had made the walk and the bout was underway. A result had not been posted in the sources available at the time of writing.
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The broadcast portion is stacked with Jitmuangnon names. Superlek faces Anar Mammadov, Kumanngern Jitmuangnon meets Ali Al-Kinani, and Kyaw Swar Win, Pek Por Tor Tor Thongtawee, Superchamp Wutdychonburipraleasing and Nongnuk Sor Dechapan all appear on Cageside’s listed card. Two MMA bouts round it out: Nattakorn Kesorn vs. Mathew Gesto and Suhyeon Kim vs. Takumi Fukamachi. The Friday Fights main card streams on ONE’s YouTube channel, while the Inner Circle bouts sit behind ONE’s $9.99-a-month subscription.
Quick take
I don’t have a closing line on Nong-O vs. Rodtang in front of me, so I’m not going to pretend I know who the market liked. What I can tell you is that a five-man Inner Circle card produced two knockouts, one split and two unanimous decisions, and the decision that matters most went to the older name in a fight people had been asking for. Nong-O now owns a semifinal slot. The next useful piece of information for anyone handicapping this bracket is the Shimon-Ondash result, because that winner joins him on the same side of a tournament that only started on Friday the 13th. Somebody’s ticket already looks worse than it did this morning. It might be mine.
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