Helena Crevar made her long-awaited ONE Championship debut at ONE Fight Night 39 on January 23rd, 2026 and she came away with a very quick submission win. It was an undeniably impressive performance but it didn’t come without controversy, as the match was moved to openweight on short notice when it became apparent that Crevar wouldn’t be able to make the previously-agreed bantamweight limit while also passing the ONE hydration tests. By the time that she had passed their hydration testing and successfully weighed in; she came in at 161lbs and was almost 24lbs heavier than her opponent, Teshya Alo.
Crevar was already the favorite going into the match and obviously this meant that she had a size advantage too. When they stepped into the ring, Crevar got her game working against Alo very quickly and had the talented wrestler in trouble early on. She was able to get in on her legs after around a minute of action and secured an estima lock grip that looked very tight, but from a supine position instead of standing. Crevar used her legs to maintain control and limit Alo’s ability to escape, bridging into the estima lock hard to force the tap after just a minute and forty seconds in total.
ONE Fight Night 39 Full Results
Rambolek Chor Ajalaboon defeats Dayakaev via Knockout – Body Punch
Asadula Imangazaliev defeats Kongthoranee Sor Sommai via Knockout – Body Punch
Chase Mann defeats Isi Fitikefu via TKO – Injury
Chihiro Sawada defeats Natalie Salcedo via Decision – Unanimous
Mohammad Siasarani defeats Pedro Dantas via Decision – Unanimous
Helena Crevar defeats Teshya Alo via Submission – Estima Lock
Bokang Masunyane defeats Ryohei Kurosawa via Decision – Unanimous
Vladimir Kuzmin defeats Mohanad Battbootti via Decision – Unanimous
Carlo Bumina-ang defeats Marcos Aurelio via TKO – Punch
ONE Championship shared the footage of Helena Crevar winning her debut at ONE Fight Night 39 in a recent post to their official Instagram account:
In the video below Helena walks us through the victory, step by step. Video via One Championship Tik Tok.
