Pacio defends the strawweight title against Yamakita

Joshua Pacio defends the ONE strawweight title against Keito Yamakita on Wednesday, November 18, at EBARA WAVE Arena Ota in Tokyo. The fight is the main event of ONE Samurai 5. It is five rounds. Strawweight is 125 pounds.

Pacio is the champion. The filed record is 24-5-0, with one disqualification win. He has defended the strawweight title twice. The last defense was a first-round submission of Mansur Malachiev on July 10, 2026.

Yamakita is 30. The filed record is 13-1-0. He is 6-1 in ONE. His last fight was a first-round submission of Koyuru Tanoue at ONE Samurai 2 on August 8. The finish was a bulldog choke at 4:37. He has won five in a row.

Start time

The card is listed for 5:30 p.m. Japan Standard Time on Wednesday, November 18. Doors are listed for 4 p.m. U-NEXT lists the Japanese stream from 4:30 p.m.

Japan Standard Time is nine hours ahead of UTC. London is on Greenwich Mean Time. Sydney is on daylight time, eleven hours ahead of UTC.

5:30 p.m. in Tokyo:

• Tokyo: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday
• London: 8:30 a.m. Wednesday
• Sydney: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday

5:30 p.m. local is the listed start of the card, not the first bell of Pacio vs. Yamakita. In New York that is 3:30 a.m. Wednesday. In Las Vegas that is 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.