“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.” “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.”
Angela lee xiong jing nan rematch free#
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.
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