An all-too-familiar face blocks Vitaly Bigdash’s road in One Championship.
The twice-beaten Russian will complete his trilogy with fellow former middleweight titleholder Aung La N Sang when the rivals collide for a third time—their head-to-head series is tied at 1-1—in a One Championship “Full Circle” co-feature on Friday at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. Bigdash, 37, enters the cage on the strength of back-to-back victories. He last appeared at One Championship “Winter Warriors 2,” where he submitted Fan Rong with a guillotine choke in the third round of their Dec. 3 encounter.
As Bigdash marches toward another anticipated rematch with Sang, here are five things you might not know about him: