TOP Filipino strawweights Lito “Thunder Kid” Adiwang and Jeremy “The Jaguar” Miado are set to collide in the Circle at One X on March 26 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in front of a capacity crowd for the very first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.
One X is One Championship’s highly anticipated 10-year anniversary event, celebrating more than a decade of world-class martial arts action.
Adiwang and Miado are in similar junctures in their young careers.
The 28-year-old “Thunder Kid” of the famed Team Lakay of Baguio City found himself twice in the top 5 at strawweight, only to be met with resistance, as he suffered heartbreaking losses to Hiroba Minowa, and most recently, Jarred Brooks.
Adiwang, however, won four of his last six and remains one of the most dangerous and explosive fighters in the division.
Miado, on the other hand, is coming off two scintillating knockout victories over China’s Miao Li Tao.
“The Jaguar” showcased his much improved striking and overall game in his most recent outing, which he owes to having moved his training camp to Marrok Force in Bangkok.
Adiwang is 13-4 with seven knockouts and four submissions, while Miado is 10-4 with five knockouts and one submission—that makes this fight relatively even on paper, and it could come down to who strikes the hardest first.
The Adiwang-Miado bout is a rare all-Filipino showdown, but it isn’t the first. There have been other all-Filipino fights under the One Championship banner, most notably 2019’s Joshua Pacio-Rene Catalan strawweight world title bout and 2013’s Honorio Banario-Eric Kelly featherweight world title showdown.