{"id":24970,"date":"2026-08-08T07:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24970"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:47:59","slug":"kaito-needs-a-win-over-siasarani-to-save-his-one-championship-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=24970","title":{"rendered":"Kaito needs a win over Siasarani to save his ONE Championship run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-label\">Trending:<\/span><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border\"\/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border-2\"\/>Alex Pereira won\u2019t wait on Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane before his next fight: \u201cI want to fight for the belt\u201d<span class=\"photo-credit\">ONE Championship<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A fighter still searching for his first ONE Championship win gets a rematch that could define his entire tenure with the promotion.<\/p>\n<p>A guaranteed shot at reigning ONE Featherweight Kickboxing World Champion Superbon awaits whoever wins the eight-man ONE SAMURAI Featherweight Kickboxing Tournament. Mohammad Siasarani and Kaito Ono open that bracket against each other in a quarterfinal rematch at ONE SAMURAI 2, streaming live from Tokyo\u2019s EBARA WAVE Arena Ota on Saturday, August 8.<\/p>\n<p>Siasarani beat Kaito by unanimous decision in May 2025, spoiling the Japanese star\u2019s promotional debut. Moreover, Kaito has lost twice since arriving in ONE. Also, he fell to Marat Grigorian at ONE SAMURAI 1 this past April. Now enters his home country still searching for his first win in the organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo become a big name and prove that you are a good fighter, you have to defeat big names. I have already done that many times, and I\u2019m going to do it again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I have had 11 fights in ONE, and in maybe seven or eight of them, I was considered the underdog. I love being in that position. I feel much better when people see me as the underdog because it gives me even more motivation to train and win. I like when people think about me that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Mohammad Siasarani chases path to Superbon<\/h2>\n<p>A win over Kaito pushes Siasarani into the tournament semifinals and one step closer to a dream matchup with Superbon. It\u2019s a training partner and idol he has faced off against only in the gym.<\/p>\n<p>For Kaito, the equation is more urgent. Two consecutive losses on ONE\u2019s global stage have left him needing a statement result in front of his home fans just to reset the conversation around his career in the promotion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuperbon is a friend of mine. I have watched him since I was young, learned from him, and trained with him. I respect him a lot. But in this sport, once we fight, friendship and respect cannot affect the competition. All of us are coming for that title,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to fight him. It is a dream matchup for me, but I believe I am already at that level. Many fighters who were once my idols are people I have already defeated. Hopefully, Superbon will be next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1 mt-0 os-source\">This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/mohammad-siasarani\/kaito-needs-a-win-over-siasarani-to-save-his-one-championship-run\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kaito-needs-a-win-over-siasarani-to-save-his-one-championship-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending:Alex Pereira won\u2019t wait on Tom Aspinall vs. Ciryl Gane before his next fight: \u201cI want to fight for the belt\u201dONE Championship A fighter still searching for his first ONE Championship win gets a rematch that could define his entire tenure with the promotion. A guaranteed shot at reigning ONE Featherweight Kickboxing World Champion Superbon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[114,7959,1992,7064,11520,44],"class_list":["post-24970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-championship","tag-kaito","tag-run","tag-save","tag-siasarani","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}