Filipina MMA star Denice Zamboanga aims to prolong the holiday spirit by capturing the ONE Women’s Atomweight MMA World Championship against Alyona Rassohyna on January 11th.
In the Philippines, the Yuletide Season is traditionally celebrated until the Feast of the Three Kings on January 6. But for Denice Zamboanga , the festive spirit lingers a bit longer as she looks to extend the celebrations to Saturday, January 11. On that day, she will vie for 26 pounds of gold.
The Menace is penciled to square off against Ukraine’s Alyona Rassohyna for the ONE Women’s Atomweight MMA World Championship in the co-main event of ONE Fight Night 27, taking place at the iconic Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. This moment has been five years in the making for the 27-year-old from Quezon City. Zamboanga’s journey to a world title began with a stunning upset over Japanese veteran Mei Yamaguchi in February 2020. In that moment, company head honcho Chartri Sityodtong was heard shouting “title shot!” at ringside as an empty arena echoed, a product of the COVID-19 lockdowns that had just begun to grip the world. Yet, as fate would have it, her dream was put on hold when Angela Lee, the division’s queen at the time, took a break after announcing her pregnancy. Zamboanga was left to find her way through a series of detours — grinding away with no clear path to the title. What followed was a series of side quests, each one more challenging than the last. Zamboanga joined the 2021 ONE Women’s Atomweight World Grand Prix, only to suffer a controversial split decision loss to Ham Seo Hee in the quarterfinals. She couldn’t catch a break. A rematch came in March 2022, but once again, she fell short, this time by a unanimous decision. However, Zamboanga refused to be defined by those losses. She clawed her way back into the title conversation with a hard-fought split decision win over Lin Heqin in December 2022, followed by a dominant unanimous decision victory against Julie Mezabarba in April 2023. Ranked N
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