Previous ONE Championship bantamweight titleholder John Lineker will check his “Hands of Stone” in a various sport on Jan. 18 when he deals with Liam Harrison in a Muay Thai match at ONE Fight Night 18.
The card happens at Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, and airs live on Amazon Prime Video in the United States. Several individuals with understanding of the scenario verified the news to MMA Fighting following a report by MMAjunkie
Lineker enhanced to 37-10 under MMA guidelines with a choice triumph over Stephen Loman this previous September. He’s won back-to-back bouts given that dropping his ONE title to Fabricio Andrade. The previous UFC fighter scored knockouts in 4 of his 6 looks under the ONE banner.
Lineker’s current bane in MMA, Andrade, likewise offered it a shot just recently under a various guideline embeded in ONE, losing by means of second-round knockout to Jonathan Haggerty for the kickboxing champion previously this month.
Harrison has contending in Muay Thai and kickboxing for years, and has actually won 2 of 4 Muay Thai matches inside the ONE ring given that 2019, both by first-round knockout. The 38-year-old English striker hasn’t completed because August 2022, when he lost versus ONE Muay Thai champ Nong-O Gaiyanghadao.