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Joshua Pacio's title story runs through Saruta and Malachiev

Sky Sports' ONE Weekly retrospective traces spectacular finishes and disputed decisions, adding roughly 22,000 views in a day.

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Why Joshua Pacio is ONE’s most dominant strawweight MMA champion | ONE Weekly

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0:51Highlights revisit Pacio's second meeting with Yosuke Saruta, with the championship at stake.
4:40The programme turns to the Saruta trilogy bout; fight footage begins at 05:54.
10:50Pacio's title loss to Jarred Brooks sets up his route back to contention.
11:15The first Malachiev fight pairs wrestling pressure with guillotine attempts and leg kicks; the decision comes at 16:46.
18:00Malachiev disputes their first result, while Pacio argues that his greater damage earned the decision.
19:43Coverage of the Pacio-Malachiev rematch begins.

Joshua Pacio promises to submit Yosuke Saruta with a move he calls "The Hanging Monkey". Instead, their third meeting ends in a rush of punches, a different answer to an opponent he had previously stopped with a head kick.

Those contrasting finishes anchor Sky Sports' ONE Weekly profile of the Filipino strawweight champion. Published on Thursday, the retrospective has gathered almost all its 24,000 views in the past day, after a much quieter opening.

The title, "Why Joshua Pacio is ONE's most dominant strawweight MMA champion | ONE Weekly", makes a big claim. The programme builds its case through championship bouts rather than an uninterrupted victory montage: it includes Pacio losing his belt to Jarred Brooks before following his route back.

That route brings Mansur Malachiev into the story. Their first meeting pits Malachiev's wrestling against Pacio's guillotine attempts and leg kicks, ending with a unanimous decision for Pacio. The argument carries on afterwards. Malachiev disputes the result; Pacio answers that he did more damage.

"If he thinks he didn't lose in that fight, that's not my problem anymore," Pacio says.

The episode then moves towards their rematch. For viewers looking specifically for that bout rather than the career retrospective, its coverage begins just before the twenty-minute mark.

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