At ONE Combat Evening 14, Danielle Kelly will lastly get the chance that she has been searching down since signing with ONE Championship.
On Friday, September 29, she’s going to look to hitch the likes of Mikey Musumeci and Kade Ruotolo as one of many promotion’s world champions in submission grappling.
Having produced back-to-back wins contained in the circle in her latest contests, Kelly additionally has a degree to show with this particular match-up.
Stepping contained in the Singapore Indoor Stadium, she’s going to face a former opponent in Jessa Khan.
Not solely does Khan maintain a win over Kelly that she has been campaigning to try to get again, her opponent holds one important accolade over her.
In 2023, Khan produced the spotlight of her profession as one of many high feminine grapplers on the planet, profitable the gold on the IBJJF world championships as a black belt within the mild featherweight division.
As they do battle for the inaugural ONE atomweight submission grappling world championship, Danielle Kelly is eager to show that profitable a world championship doesn’t outline you in grappling.
By defeating Khan, the 27-year-old hopes to indicate that she is the elite competitor within the weight class and simply because she is but to win a world championship, doesn’t imply she doesn’t belong on the high.
In an interview with ONE Championship, she mentioned:
“I really feel like I practice with the most effective, and I’m gonna show that you simply don’t should be a World Champion to be higher than anybody else. You don’t should have a bunch of titles.”
ONE Combat Evening 14 will air stay and free in U.S. primetime for North American viewers with an energetic Amazon Prime Video subscription.
