Shinya Aoki will make his featherweight debut on Oct. 18. | Dave Mandel/Sherdog.com
One Fighting Championship lightweight titlist Shinya Aoki will drop to 145 pounds for his next in-cage appearance, when “Tobikan Judan” locks horns with Cody Stevens in the co-main event of One FC 11.
The evening’s main draw airs via online pay-per-view at onefc.livesport.tv, while the preliminary draw streams live and free on Sherdog.com.
Aoki, 30, has won three straight fights heading into his featherweight debut. The 40-fight pro has gone 2-0 in One FC competition and last competed on April 5, when he scored a second-round submission win over Kotetsu Boku to capture the lightweight crown at One FC 8.
Stevens, meanwhile, has won back-to-back fights after going 1-4-1 in his previous six outings. “The Machine” most recently saw action one month ago, when he outpointed “Ultimate Fighter 14” alum Dustin Neace in a unanimous verdict within the Ohio-based Revelation Fight Organization.