Donegi Abena

Donegi Abena is unusually tall for light heavyweight and fights accordingly — long, patient, using the teep and jab to keep opponents at a range where his reach does the work and theirs does not.

That approach put him in the Pereira and Vakhitov conversation during the division's strongest period, and his fights against both are instructive on how far pure length can carry a fighter against a genuine finisher. The answer is: a long way, until a single shot lands.

He has since fought under ONE rules as well, joining the growing group of GLORY fighters who move between the two promotions and their differing judging philosophies.