![]() ![]() ONE: “Century” will air live in the United States on Oct. Earlier in the year in March, I was recovering from a back injury, so now I have no limitations, no injuries and I feel a lot stronger, so we were able to tighten up a lot of areas that I couldn’t have worked on before, including a lot more cardio, a lot more wrestling, boxing rounds, stuff like that.” “I feel like I’ve made so much progress and so much growth since that last fight,” she said. That includes five consecutive victories under the ONE Championship banner, where she appears to get stronger with each performance. ![]() Xiong (14-1) has been a veritable nightmare at 115 pounds, racking up nine straight wins with six brutal finishes. It’s a struggle, but it’s familiar territory for me, so I’m not sure how it’s going to play on her.” “For me, I know what it takes to get to that weight. “It’s definitely gonna be interesting, is a tough weight class, a tough weight to make especially if you’ve never competed there before,” Lee said. 13 in Tokyo, Japan, though it will be the strawweight “Panda” who will be changing weight classes for their second go-round. What lessons the 23 year-old Lee has learned will be on display when she rematches Xiong Jing Nan in the ONE: “Century” main event on Oct. If I can take anything from it, I’ll take it as a lesson and try and grow from it, and learn from it and that’s what I’m doing.” But I’m not gonna let those losses go to waste. To have back-to-back losses, even though it was a really close fight and I thought like I was doing well, just to have it not go your way, to have another loss on your record, it definitely makes you doubt yourself. “I feel like that wasn’t my best performance and if I could play it back again, hopefully I can get that one back down the road,” Lee said. ![]() Meet Hawaii’s Next Generation Of MMA Icons champion “super fight” against Chinese juggernaut Xiong Jing Nan last March.ĭespite a commanding performance early in the bout, Lee succumbed to strikes in the fifth and final frame, then came up short in her rebound fight against unheralded jiu-jitsu ace, Michelle Nicolini, just four months later. Undaunted, the United MMA product agreed to move up in weight for a champion vs. Lee captured a five-round decision over her Japanese rival but did hit some rough waters in the second half of the fight. She wanted to compete and defend her title.” ONE Women’s Atomweight World Champion Angela Lee defends her World Title against strawweight queen Xiong Jing Nan at ONE: CENTURY in Tokyo. “Just because you can’t see any damage on the outside doesn’t mean you’re 100 percent on the inside, but Angela is a champion and has a champion’s mindset. “Everyone was trying to keep her on the sidelines, but it’s hard to tell an athlete to sit out and rest,” Lee’s father and head coach, Ken Lee, told. Living up to her “Unstoppable” nickname, Lee (8-2) admits to rushing through the healing process in order to defend her 105-pound title against Mei Yamaguchi in the promotion's May 2018 headliner, just six months after rolling her car in “The Aloha State.” ET all on Amazon Prime Video.ONE Championship atomweight titleholder, Angela Lee, is injury free for the first time in nearly two years, after recovering from a near-fatal car accident in O’ahu, Hawaii, one that left her with a concussion, as well as a serious back injury. ONE on Prime Video 2 takes place Friday at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore. Who will come out on top in the trilogy? Take a look at the story behind their rivalry with highlights from their previous two fights in the video above. Then in the rematch on Oct 13, 2019, Lee got her revenge when she finished Xiong with a rear-naked choke submission in the fourth round to retain her atomweight title. On March 31, 2019, Lee’s bid to become a champ-champ was derailed when Xiong finished her by fifth-round TKO with body kicks and punches at ONE Championship: A New Era. The third encounter between the two fighters will make the first major title-fight trilogy in women’s MMA history, with Xiong and Lee splitting victories in their two previous encounters. ![]() In the main event, strawweight champion Xiong Jing Nan puts her 125-pound title on the line against atomweight champ Angela Lee. On Friday, ONE on Prime Video 2 is headlined by a historic trilogy. ![]()
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