Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Safety Information / Your California Privacy Rights are applicable to you. ^ Back to Top ^ © 2023 ESPN Internet Ventures. Lee, 26, won the ONE 115-pound title in 2016 when she was just 19 years old. A Canadian-born Hawaii resident of Singaporean and Korean descent, she has five successful atomweight title defenses, most recently a second-round submission win over Stamp Fairtex in March. Lee (11-3) had a two-fight winning streak snapped Saturday. Xiong, 34, has held the ONE 125-pound title since 2018. The Chinese-born fighter has only one other loss on her record, to Bellator veteran Colleen Schneider in 2015. In the main event of ONE: CENTURY PART I, Angela Lee defends her ONE Atomweight World Title in a rematch against ONE Women’s Strawweight World Champion Xiong. Xiong (18-2) has won four in a row since losing to Lee and 13 of her last 14 overall. I don't understand how you can score points on the cards with your defense and running backwards." "But I really feel like I was the one who was more consistently pushing forward, landing heavy strikes. Angela Lee is not impressed by Xiong Jingnan’s recent performances, nor the ONE strawweight champion’s claim she is taking it easy on her challengers because she does not want to hurt them. "Xiong came out really strong in the first round," Lee said. ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong also told media that he did not agree with the judges' decision. Lee said afterward that she thought she won the fight. "I really enjoyed fighting this evolved, better version of you." The main event features a third encounter between champions as atomweight titleholder Angela Lee challenges Xiong Jing Nan for her strawweight belt, marking the first title-fight trilogy in the history of major women’s MMA. "Thank you for putting on this fantastic, spectacular match," Xiong said in her postfight interview, translated from Mandarin. The fight itself was one of the best women's MMA battles of the year, a back-and-forth struggle in which both women had their moments and Lee battled back from a significant Xiong beating in the first round. Xiong and Lee are two of ONE's best and most popular women's fighters, and this was a key headliner on the promotion's second card on Amazon Prime Video in North America. In 2019, ONE Championship women's atomweight champion Angela Lee faced ONE strawweight women's champion Xiong Jing Nan in what would be one of the best women's mixed martial arts bouts of all time. This was Xiong's seventh successful title defense. Lee remains ONE's women's 115-pound champ. Xiong beat Lee via fifth-round TKO in March 2019 in a 125-pound title fight and Lee won the second fight via fifth-round submission at 115 pounds six months later. With the victory, Xiong retained her ONE women's 125-pound title and went to 2-1 against Lee in their trilogy. Jingnan Xiong nearly finished Angela Lee several times in a dominant first round and then did enough the rest of the way to earn a unanimous-decision victory Saturday in the main event of a ONE Championship card in Singapore. Jingnan Xiong tops Angela Lee by unanimous decision in ONE Championship main event You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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