ONE Friday Fights 168 now has its full marching orders, and the weekly Lumpinee chaos machine is back with another nine-fight mix of Muay Thai, kickboxing, and MMA. The Aug. 28 card in Bangkok is topped by Wuttikrai Wor Chakrawut against Mohammad “Prince of Persia” Habibpour, keeping ONE’s contract-hunting series moving after ONE’s weekly chaos kept producing wild comeback scenes.
The main event is a bantamweight Muay Thai scrap with a pretty clean sales pitch. Wuttikrai is coming in off a unanimous decision win over Sonrak Fairtex at ONE Friday Fights 162, while Habibpour brings the Team Mehdi Zatout pressure game from Pattaya and a resume that started absurdly early. When a guy turns pro at 13, you can safely assume he did not pick this sport up from a wellness brochure.
Habibpour’s ONE-related Instagram post is below.
Lumpinee Gets Another Contract Chase
The co-main event keeps the violence dial in the same neighborhood, with Petphupa Aekpujean facing Brazil Aekmuangnon in a flyweight Muay Thai bout. Petphupa is only 20, trains at Superbon Training Camp, and just iced Wuttidet Torfunfarm at ONE Friday Fights 158. Brazil is also 20, also from a fighting family, and already has the kind of early-career mileage that makes these Friday cards such useful sorting machines.
The rest of the lineup stays busy. Nuengkaonueng Laochokcharoen meets Denis Dotsenko at bantamweight, Superball Sitcho meets Nihad Ibrahimov at flyweight, and Chalamkhao Sitkhunma faces Mohammed Faizan in another bantamweight Muay Thai slot. The atomweights also get room, with Kebtok Sor Tor Chetbankhwao against Burklerk Lookmuangpet and Fahlab Nakhonsawan Sports School against Valentina Cancello.
There is one kickboxing bout on the card, as Zhao Chongyang meets Yuri Tanaka at bantamweight. The MMA lane closes the lineup with Geun Ho Son against Ryoto Nishiyama at flyweight, which gives the card a little bit of everything without losing the usual Lumpinee rhythm.
That rhythm matters because these cards are not just filler between bigger ONE events. They are tryouts with elbows attached. A six-figure main-roster contract is the carrot, and the ring is usually mean enough to find out who actually wants it. With Superlek once smashed through Tagir Khalilov on a frantic ONE turnaround and Garry Tonon showed how fast the grappling side can flip a ONE fight, ONE’s late-August pipeline is packed again.
