Stamp Fairtex prevails over Jihin Radzuan at ONE on Prime Video 2. Though the strawweight empress mounted all effort to sustain a toe-to-toe pace of action and avoid being taken down, Xiong was caught in a dangerous situation when Lee latched on a standing anacoda choke while drilling knees to the body.Īcknowledging that Lee managed to recover and display what made her a world champion, Xiong came out with guns blazing in the third canto as she blitzed through her foe's defenses with well-placed boxing combinations.Įven though Xiong was on the driver's seat courtesy of her renowned striking, Lee took the risk to fight fire with fire and found home with the shots she hurled towards her rival. This strategy permitted Lee to survive and regain her bearings, going into the second frame where she finally had the opportunity to demonstrate her highly-touted pedigree in the grappling department. With Lee reeling from the heavy blows she took from Xiong's punches, the Chinese sensed blood and attempted to wrap it up right there and then by raining down a flurry of remorseless punches.Īs referee Herb Dean stood by and seemed ready to step in to save Lee from further punishment, the reigning women's atomweight champion found a way to somehow put a stop to the barrage by clinging onto the lead leg of Xiong. It did not take too long for Xiong to make Lee pay for it, wobbling the Singaporean-American with a solid left hook before scoring a knockdown with a right straight soon after. With a point to prove, Lee showed no fear in the opening sequences of the championship clash as she surprisingly opted to engage in on-feet exchanges with a feared striker such as Xiong, who gladly obliged by having the first few minutes of the fight in her natural habitat and returning fire with a heavy load of punches. Heading into the third and final chapter of their grueling rivalry at the 12,000-seater Singapore Indoor Stadium, both ladies were determined to lay claim to the status as the most dominant female competitor to ever grace the promotion. It was a different story in the rematch seven months later when Lee's atomweight trinket was up for grabs as she exacted revenge on Xiong courtesy of a rear-naked choke in the fifth round. Lee recovered just in time for the Singapore-based combat sports outfit's first live event in Tokyo, Japan in March 2019, which saw Xiong author a thunderous fifth-round technical knockout to retain the women's strawweight belt. Xiong Jing Nan and Angela Lee had an intense staredown during the ceremonial weigh-ins for their trilogy bout at ONE on Prime Video 2. Their first cage meeting was originally set to happen in November 2018, but the injuries that Lee sustained from a car accident forced her to pull out of the bout. Talks of a champion-versus-champion showdown began as soon as Xiong was enshrined as the inaugural ONE women's strawweight titleholder with a lopsided drubbing of Tiffany Teo over four years ago.
"The Panda" made sure that she would come back home to China with the women's strawweight championship wrapped around her waist by prevailing over the reigning atomweight queen in their trilogy bout that headlined ONE on Prime Video 2. History repeated itself on Saturday, October 1 (Friday, September 30 in the United States) as Xiong Jing Nan once again impeded Angela Lee from fully realizing her dream of becoming a two-division mixed martial arts (MMA) world champion.
She remains undefeated in ONE Championship's strawweight division.The Chinese has now recorded seven successful defenses of her strawweight championship.Xiong Jing Nan denies Angela Lee's bid to become a two-division champion.
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