ONE Championship will hold 24 events in 2016, and has announced some changes before the first card of the year in January.
Twelve days after the death of Yang Jian Bing, who died while attempting to cut weight for a flyweight bout with Geje Eustaquio at ONE Championship 35, the promotion announced a new weigh-in program which bans weight-cutting by dehydration. Under the new program, fighters will have to weigh-in several times before and during fight week, including three hours before the event.
With the change, ONE Championship fighters "will now compete at their ‘walking-weight’, which will be determined by a robust system that will track his/her weight on a regular basis throughout the period that the athlete is contracted to ONE".