Helena Crevar officially arrived on the ONE Championship stage with authority.
The 18-year-old phenom made her long-awaited debut with ONE Championship at ONE Fight Night 39, submitting Teshya Noelani Alo with a fast Estima Lock just 1:40 into their openweight submission grappling match.
For Crevar, the experience felt almost routine.
Here is what she had to say in an interview with ONE Championship:
It was a great experience. I won the match by submission.
Everything really ran smoothly throughout the week with the schedule and everything. So, I’m really happy with my debut.
Competing on ONE Championship’s first U.S. primetime event of 2026 didn’t faze her either:
No pressure, really. I’ve been competing for almost 10 years now.
I like to stay very calm before my matches, and I feel like the last year or two, I’ve really not been getting nervous, just excited to get on the mats.
Crevar acknowledged the danger from Alo, but never lost confidence:
She is very quick, very aggressive, but I knew that if I got either on top or into the legs that I could finish her, and that’s pretty much what I did.
Ankle locks are some of my favorite submissions, and that’s pretty much the one that I look to attack first.
And as soon as I got it, it popped really quickly.I knew that it was in. It was just a matter of whether she would tap or not.
But after the second pop, she tapped pretty quickly.
Looking ahead, Crevar isn’t calling out specific opponents:
Anyone who would want to fight me at 155 at ONE Championship, or maybe openweight.
Hopefully, (I’ll get) a title shot at ONE.
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