Jonathan Haggerty’s knee was legal, and according to the Bangkok Post the vote wasn’t close. A ONE Championship review panel ruled 12-0 that the contested strike complied with the promotion’s rules, the outlet reported Monday, citing a source. Twelve panelists looked at it and not one of them saw a foul.
The report is light on mechanics. It doesn’t say who sat on the panel, how the vote was run or how the strike itself played out. It gives the result, and a unanimous result is about as clean as a ruling like this can be. Whatever arguments were floating around about that knee now have to contend with a 12-0 count against them.
Haggerty’s most recent outing came at ONE Samurai 4 in Tokyo, where he defended the ONE bantamweight kickboxing championship against Hiroki Akimoto. Haggerty stopped the Japanese challenger 42 seconds into Round 3. Combat Press ranked Haggerty fifth and Akimoto eighth going into that fight in its 66-kilogram featherweight kickboxing division, and its November 2026 rankings kept both men in those spots afterward.
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It’s a crowded neighborhood. Kento Haraguchi sits at No. 1 in that Combat Press division. Miguel Trindade, ranked third, just won the vacant GLORY featherweight title at GLORY 110 in Antwerp with a third-round stoppage of Deniz Demirkapu, dropping him three times with low kicks. Another result from the Tokyo card shook things up too. Nabil Anane beat sixth-ranked Yuki Yoza by unanimous decision in a ONE bantamweight kickboxing bout and jumped straight into the top 10. Anane is already booked to challenge Nico Carrillo for the ONE featherweight Muay Thai title in December, so he won’t be waiting around.
No next opponent for Haggerty has surfaced in the reporting so far. ONE’s social team hasn’t exactly been hiding him, though. The promotion posted a Halloween greeting from Haggerty on X on Oct. 31, two days before the panel news broke.
My take: good. I’ll always want a disputed strike looked at properly, because fighters deserve that much, but the flip side is that once the review is done, the winner deserves to have the win stand without an asterisk hanging off it forever. A split vote would have kept the argument alive in every comment section for months. Twelve to nothing ends it. Haggerty is the ONE bantamweight kickboxing champion, the knee was legal, and the only question worth asking now is who ONE puts across from him next.
