Bibiano Fernandes regained the ONE Championship bantamweight title on Sunday. Yet, the fight didn’t go the way he planned.
“The Flash” entered the cage in Tokyo, Japan, for a trilogy clash with Kevin Belingon, but the contest came to an end in the third round after Belingon was disqualified for landed several illegal elbows to the back of Fernandes’ head. Fernandes was furious and stormed off the cage before he was given the belt, and still has yet to be given the title.
Shortly after the fight, Fernandes and several other ONE Championship fighters flew from Japan to Thailand for an athletes’ retreat, and the bantamweight king spoke with MMA Fighting about what he experienced in Tokyo.