Stamp Fairtex vs. Flores: ONE and Brave CF Weekend Preview

This is a three-card weekend that starts in Bangkok and ends up in Croatia, and depending on your time zone, none of it lands at a convenient hour. ONE Championship works Lumpinee Stadium two nights running: Friday Fights 169 & The Inner Circle 29 opens Friday, September 4 with a 4:15 PM Bangkok main card, and ONE Fight Night 47: Stamp vs. Flores follows a day later, its main card streaming on Prime Video at 9:00 PM ET Friday, September 5 (already Saturday morning in Thailand). Roughly six thousand miles west, Brave CF 108 opens at 8:00 PM local, 10:00 PM CET, that same Saturday in Pula, Croatia, headlined by a fighter from Pula.

I'm leading with the Saturday card in Bangkok, because Stamp Fairtex is the only name on this entire slate that means something outside the hardcore Muay Thai and MMA crowds, and ONE built the whole night around her.

Stamp Fairtex Defends Her Legend Against an MMA Rookie

Stamp is 11-2 in MMA, but that record undersells her. She's the rare fighter who has held titles in two different combat sports for ONE, the Muay Thai atomweight belt and the MMA atomweight strap, and she did it while becoming one of the promotion's most bankable stars in the process. Her resume includes a second-round submission of Angela Lee in a 2022 title fight and a first-round submission of Ritu Phogat the year before that, two of the biggest names women's MMA has produced in Asia. She's 28, from Pattaya, trains out of Fairtex, and her most recent outing was a split-decision win over a fighter also named Flores, Cynthia Flores, this past June. No relation, presumably, to the Flores she's fighting now.

Selina Flores is a legitimate crossover talent in her own right, just not in this sport yet. The "Teep Queen" carries a Muay Thai title win over Natalie Morgan and a Glory kickboxing win over Meng Zhang, but her MMA ledger reads 1-0, a single unanimous decision over Marie McManamon last October. What she does bring is size that's unusual for the division: 5'6" with a 69-inch reach, against Stamp's 5'2" and 63 inches. That's a real height and reach gap at atomweight, and if this were a kickboxing match I'd take it more seriously as a leveler.

It isn't. Stamp has fought and finished bigger women before, and the entire question with Flores is whether one professional MMA fight, with zero recorded takedowns or submission attempts on her ledger, is enough seasoning to survive a two-time ONE champion looking to close the distance and go to the mat. I don't think it is. Somebody at ONE clearly likes the size mismatch on paper and the crossover-star story it tells if Flores somehow pulls it off, but on tape this reads as a gulf in grappling experience Flores hasn't had to answer for yet.

Prediction: Stamp Fairtex by submission, round 2.

The Rest of Fight Night 47

Short version: this is a nine-fight main card built mostly around prospects, and the one name worth circling is Rafael Lovato Jr., 11-0 with seven of those wins by submission, out of Lovato's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with an ADCC and IBJJF World Championships background behind him. He faces Pawel Jaworski, who is 0-1 and stepping way up in level of competition. That's a finish waiting to happen. Elsewhere, Gabriela Fujimoto (7-1) takes on Macarena Aragon (5-3) at atomweight, and Ryohei Kurosawa, a 20-6 veteran with more fights than half this card combined, gets a live one in Fabio Henrique, who's 15-2 himself, at strawweight. None of it needs a paragraph of its own, but Lovato Jr. is worth setting an alarm for if you're already up watching the main event.

Friday Fights 169: A Fairtex Family Reunion Before the Real Fairtex Show

The night before, the same building hosts a Muay Thai-heavy Friday Fights card topped by Petmuangsri Torfunfarm (4-3) against Gregor Thom (2-3), a Scottish fighter training out of Aberdeen Combat Centre and Kiatsongrit. Petmuangsri is riding back-to-back decision wins, over Diogo Miguel Silva in May and Chankrit Manop Gym in April. Thom is riding the opposite, three straight losses stretching back to November, the last two by unanimous decision and the one before that by TKO. I don't see the trend reversing here.

Prediction: Petmuangsri Torfunfarm by decision.

The undercard is where the card earns its keep if you know where to look. Ferrari Fairtex (6-4), stablemate of Saturday's headliner, fights Akif Guluzada in a kickboxing bout at bantamweight, which makes for a tidy bit of programming: the Fairtex gym gets a full weekend of airtime across two cards and two disciplines. Ryohei Kurosawa isn't the only well-traveled name walking through Lumpinee this weekend, and if you only have time for one of these two Bangkok cards, Friday Fights leans harder into pure Muay Thai and kickboxing, while Fight Night 47 is the MMA show with the actual star power.

Brave CF 108: Vrtacic Fights for Pula in Front of His Own Crowd

Across the world in Croatia, Andi Vrtacic headlines a home card in the city he was born in. "The Highlight Machine" is 9-3, ranked #5 at middleweight in KSW, and comes in off a first-round TKO of Albert Odzimkowski this past April. Six of his nine wins have come by knockout or TKO, which tracks with a fighter who bounces between BRAVE CF, KSW and FNC picking up finishes wherever the promotion needs a name on top of a poster. Facing him is Sofiane Bouafia, a French middleweight who is 8-4 with five of his own wins by knockout, but who was finished himself in July 2025, a first-round knockout loss to Plamen Penchev at BRAVE CF 97. That's the fight in miniature: two guys who can end a night early, one of them coming off a finish loss in this promotion, the other fighting in front of a crowd that already knows his name.

Prediction: Andi Vrtacic by TKO, round 1.

There's real name value further down the Brave CF 108 poster too. Stephen Loman, a four-time BRAVE CF bantamweight champion currently ranked #3 in ONE Championship's own bantamweight division, faces Lasha Abramishvili in what's technically a co-feature slot but reads like a second main event on paper. Loman's resume includes decision wins over Bibiano Fernandes and Shoko Sato in 2022, but he hasn't fought since a unanimous decision loss to John Lineker at ONE Fight Night 14 back in September 2023, so this is as much a comeback as it is a co-main. And in a nice bit of scheduling, Domen Drnovsek and Maja Drnovšek both fight on the same card, which either means Croatia and Slovenia's fight scene is small enough that two fighters sharing a surname isn't news, or somebody's cheering for both of them ringside.

None of these three cards will trend on their own. But between a two-sport champion defending her standing against a size mismatch, a fighter finally getting his hometown headline slot, and a Muay Thai card that doubles as a preview of the same gym's bigger show a day later, this is a busier and more interesting weekend than the marquee-free billing suggests. Watch the one with Stamp's name on it first.