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Namiki Kawahara believes Joshua Pacio’s days as ONE Championship ’s strawweight king are numbered. Pacio, a product of the famed Team Lakay gym in Baguio City, Philippines, has held the division’s title since he knocked out Japan’s Yosuke Saruta in April 2019, and has defended it three times since then. It has been an impressive championship reign for the Filipino, but Japan’s Kawahara believes that reign is nearing its expiration date, as the strawweight division becomes increasingly crowded with new and dangerous contenders. “He’s a good fighter, but the real strawweight contenders are just starting to gather to the division...
