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Saadulaev faces Sato’s tough challenge

Yusup Saadulaev arrives for a bout last year. Dux Carvajal

Singapore: One Championship has added two more bouts to its 10th anniversary event, One X, to be held on March 26 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

The organisation announced that Yusup “Maestro” Saadulaev will take on Shoko Sato in a bantamweight bout and Ryuto “Dragon Boy” Sawada will face Senzo Ikeda in a strawweight match.

Saadulaev, who was once ranked No.3 in the bantamweight division, has defeated fighters such as Sotir Kichukov and Jordan Lucas with his impressive grappling skills.

He also triumphed over “Ottogi” Dae Hwan Kim and his last four wins were all unanimous decisions.

The “Maestro” has been training at Khabib Nurmagomedov’s gym, Nurmagomedov MMA School, in Dagestan to prepare for this bout. He faces a challenging striker in Sato,…

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