How Asia's MMA unicorn One Championship is taking on the UFC

How Asia's MMA unicorn One Championship is taking on the UFC

Chatri Sityodtong, founder and chairman of ONE Championship

Mei Yamaguchi is five-foot-nothing and built like a bulldog, barely standing taller than the top rope in the gym in suburban Tokyo where she trains. Yamaguchi, a 36-year-old wrestler, boxer and martial artist, has been fighting for more than a decade, but for most of her career competed in small venues in front of crowds of family and friends, working part-time jobs so she could devote herself to training.

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