Jiu-jitsu legend Marcus Buchecha desires to get again within the ONE Championship cage however says the promotion will not be providing him fights.
A 13-time IBJJF world champion and two-time ADCC gold medalist, Buchecha hasn’t competed for the Asia-based promotion since August 2023, when he misplaced a choice in a wild brawl with “Reug Reug” Oumar Kane.
Buchecha was 4-0 in MMA previous to that with 4 first-round stoppages below the ONE banner over Anderson “Braddock” Silva, Ji Received Kang, Simon Carson, and Kirill Grishenko.
“Lots of people are asking me recently if I retired,” Buchecha wrote on social media. “The reply is in fact not, the rationale I’m not combating it’s not my selection, I’ve been out ready for a struggle for nearly one yr however I don’t have luck getting a struggle, that’s the rationale I’m away from cage or the mats.
“The appropriate query it’s best to ask me is once I’m combating once more? However proper now I’m asking to some folks the identical factor, to be extra exact 13 months. It’s been 13 months of ready, to be in a state of affairs like that it’s sucks, I don’t want this to anyone! So if you need this reply, you realize who to ask and tag ONE Championship.”
Fellow American High Staff fighters reacted within the remark part asking ONE to provide him a struggle, and ATT coach Marcos Parrumpa went a step additional to name ONE Championship the “worst present ever.”
“Please launch him,” Parrumpa wrote. “We need to see him in a great present.”
