{"id":58379,"date":"2026-04-14T02:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/ben-woolliss-returns-to-fight-on-sky-sports-on-may-16-against-former-champ-after-spectacular-one-championship-debut-wwe-news\/14\/04\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T06:58:25","slug":"ben-woolliss-returns-to-fight-on-sky-sports-on-may-16-against-former-champ-after-spectacular-one-championship-debut-wwe-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/ben-woolliss-returns-to-fight-on-sky-sports-on-may-16-against-former-champ-after-spectacular-one-championship-debut-wwe-news\/14\/04\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Woolliss returns to fight on Sky Sports on May 16 against former champ after spectacular ONE Championship debut | WWE News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Ben Woolliss will follow up his stunning ONE Championship debut when he returns to action on May 16, live on <em>Sky Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At the Lumpinee Stadium in Thailand, live on <em>Sky Sports<\/em> in the early hours of the morning on Saturday May 16, Woolliss will fight Petchtanong Petchfergus in a bantamweight kickboxing contest.<\/p>\n<p>In his match-up with Petchfergus on ONE Fight Night 43, Woolliss will be pitting himself against a former ONE bantamweight kickboxing world champion.<\/p>\n<p>Woolliss, from Grimsby, has had to battle through long-term health issues in recent years but signed with ONE and made his promotional debut just last month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">Ben Woolliss made a stunning short-notice ONE Championship debut when he took out John Lineker<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>He accepted his first assignment on just nine days&#8217; notice, taking on former ONE bantamweight MMA world champion John Lineker in a featherweight kickboxing clash.<\/p>\n<p>Lineker is known for tremendous punching power but Woolliss took a spectacular one-round stoppage victory over him, taking out &#8220;Hands of Stone&#8221; with agonisingly damaging low kicks.<\/p>\n<p>In the main event on May 16, Chinese star Tang Kai makes his second ONE featherweight MMA world title defence against Shamil &#8220;The Cobra&#8221; Gasanov.<\/p>\n<p>Kai has demolished every single featherweight MMA fighter in his path to claim. Gasanov though has a near-flawless record, using his powerful stand-up arsenal, renowned grappling, and submission expertise to overwhelm the competition. After avenging his only career loss, &#8220;The Cobra&#8221; is ready to strike and may be unstoppable now.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/mma\/news\/12040\/13531145\/ben-woolliss-returns-to-fight-on-sky-sports-on-may-16-against-former-champ-after-spectacular-one-championship-debut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&rsquo;s Ben Woolliss will follow up his stunning ONE Championship debut when he returns to action on May 16, live on Sky<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/ben-woolliss-returns-to-fight-on-sky-sports-on-may-16-against-former-champ-after-spectacular-one-championship-debut-wwe-news\/14\/04\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[565,387,152,518,449,33,230,69,7835,70,7834,2860],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/04\/1600x900\/skysports-ben-woollis-one-championship_7218462.jpg?20260412230919","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58381,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58379\/revisions\/58381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}