Marcus Almeida vs. Oumar Kane off One 'Reloaded,' Postponed to Later Date

Also, the matchup between Buchecha and Reug Reug has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later event #WeAreONE #ONEChampionship

— ONE Championship (@ONEChampionship) April 18, 2022

Destiny appears not to favor a Marcus Almeida vs. Oumar Kane matchup. On Monday morning, the Singapore-based promotion announced that One “Reloaded” lost the much-anticipated heavyweight matchup. An official reason hasn’t been disclosed, but One aims to reschedule the clash for an as-yet unannounced event. It is the second time the promotion has postponed the fight after the pair was supposed to collide at last year’s ONE on TNT 1.

Multiple-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu heavyweight champion Almeida (2-0, 2-0 One) impressed in his mixed martial arts debut, where he submitted Anderson “Braddock” Silva thanks to a vicious north-south choke at 2:55 in the opening frame at One: “Revolution.” In his most recent appearance, “Buchecha” forced Ji Won Kang to tap to a rear-naked choke at the 2:27 mark of Round 1 at One: “Winter Warriors.”

Senegalese wrestling sensation Kane (3-1, 2-1 One) is looking to bounce back from his first defeat as a professional after retiring due to fatigue at the end of the second frame of his clash with Kirill Grishenko at One on TNT 4. Prior to that loss, “Reug Reug” had stopped Patrick Schmid in a one-sided squash match and smashed Alain Ngalani with a storm of ground-and-pound.

One “Reloaded” will go down on April 22 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. The headliner features a lightweight kickboxing championship affair between defending titleholder Regian Eersel and Arian Sadikovic. In the co-headliner, Smilla Sundell and Jackie Buntan will collide for the inaugural strawweight muay Thai title.