Shinya Aoki has always been known as one of the a top lightweights in the world , also becoming one the most popular fighters throughout Asia. Aoki has recently been on a 10-1 run with just one lone lost to the former Bellator lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez at Bellator 66 in Chicago. Aoki si the current DREAM lightweight champion, but also captured the ONE FC lightweight championship as he submitted Koetsu Borku. Lately Aoki has been very successful within the lightweight division, but today via Twitter he announced ”Hello featherweight class!!!” where he also included a picture, showing  a scale reading 65.8 kilograms which is the same as 145 lbs. The current ONE FC featherweight champion is Kohi Oishi, but there has been no other information released or any statements from ONE FC on when Aoki will make his featherweight debut.