When Does Champion One Girl Champ Fight Again
We recently spoke to ONE Championship Women'due south Atomweight Champion Angela Lee about her recent win at Ane X against Stamp Fairtex, being a fighting mother and a potential move back to Strawweight.
'Unstoppable' Lee is a Canadian-American mixed martial artist of Singaporean, Chinese and Korean heritage who has been dominating the 105-pound division since 2016.
Lee is unbeaten at Atomweight in ONE FC, fifty-fifty avenging her loss to Strawweight Titleholder Xiong Jing Nan at 105-pounds dorsum in 2019.
Here'southward our full interview with mixed martial creative person and the Ane Title Atomweight Champion Angela Lee.
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Angela Lee Exclusive Interview
GMS: Congratulations on your win at ONE Ten, being the first Mom Champ in ONE history and getting the Performance of the Dark Bonus!
Angela Lee: Thank you!
GMS: Y'all started the fight confronting Stamp really aggressively, you came straight out later her. Did you go into the contest thinking that it was going to be a fight that stayed on the anxiety or were you lot looking for a moment to shoot for a takedown early?
Angela Lee: Yous know every fight starts on the feet, so nosotros're definitely prepared to close the altitude early. I wanted to keep the pressure on her. I was confident in my hands, in my boxing and was able to land some really good shots at the beginning of the circular and close the distance. That was the game plan. Once I was able to get her pressed against the muzzle I was looking for ways to take her down and eventually finish on the ground.
Stamp Fairtex
GMS: Stamp Fairtex is a Muay Thai practitioner with a wealth of dangerous hit, and information technology did seem like you were consciously looking to prove a point continuing. She did quite well on the ground, were you expecting her to do as well as she did against your BJJ experience?
Angela Lee: I knew that she would be able to scramble well on the basis, I and my team were expecting that and we trained for that. We're always training to be one pace ahead and so every time she was able to escape I was already setting upwardly my side by side movement. I recollect that's how I was able to keep control of the fight the whole fourth dimension on the basis and keep attacking.
Strawweight
GMS: Are you considering a move to Strawweight in 2022 if ONE is non able to put together the fight you're hoping for against Seo Hee Ham at Atomweight?
Angela Lee: Definitely, whatever opportunity presents itself. If it'south to defend my championship some other fourth dimension so and then exist it, if it's to move upward and fight for the Strawweight title and then I would love that as well. For me, it doesn't really matter and so much, either manner, I'm good with it and whatever the company presents to me.
GMS: Y'all're looking for the rubber match, you lot're 1-1 with Xiong Jing Nan in your respective divisions (Lee lost to Nan at Strawweight and Nan lost to Lee at Atomweight), then that is the pound for pound matchup that fans desire to run across.
Angela Lee: That's definitely a match that I want to happen. I voiced that in interviews and said that I want to face her Strawweight, so we'll run into what happens.
UFC Atomweight Sectionalization
GMS: Slightly outside of ONE, do you think at some point that UFC will exist introducing an Atomweight division? Just bringing this upwardly as they recently announced they're heading to Singapore this year.
Angela Lee: Possibly. The only other major organisation that does have an Atomweight sectionalization is Invicta FC. There are girls (in the UFC) who are 105ers but there are more girls usually fighting at 115, 125, 135. Even in ONE Championship, they have the Atomweight division equally 105 to 115 because you have to pass a hydration examination. So I'm non so sure, merely if they're (UFC) coming out to Asia then they may be able to recruit some girls on the smaller side for a potential Atomweight division.
GMS: At that place's quite an interesting history betwixt UFC and 1 in terms of trades with Ben Askren and Demetrious Johnson. If there was a chance for you to get a major fight over in the United States in a crossover deal between 1 and UFC, would you consider information technology?
Angela Lee: Chatri (Sityodtong, Founder, chairman and CEO of ONE Championship) has stated in interviews that he'due south very open to cantankerous-promotion and making these super fights. And so I call up that he wouldn't have a problem if there was an opportunity for me to have a super fight with someone in the UFC. I don't know if the UFC would be open to that though.
Fighting Mom
GMS: You mentioned that you want to fight once again in 2022, how has it been getting back into training and the cage afterwards starting a family? What'south it been like getting back into the routine of training for contest afterward the chaos of having a newborn?
Angela Lee: [Laughs] Information technology definitely took an aligning at the beginning, trying to find the right schedule for everyone, for my girl and who would exist able to watch her while I was training. Only in one case we got into the hang of things for a week or two then things started to be quite natural and we got a solid routine down. It was definitely tough, only I recollect also…of grade beingness a mom there are days where yous haven't had any sleep and y'all're going to be sore, but whenever I was able to train? That was like my me time, beingness able to focus on me, on making sure that I'yard doing well in training, and as soon as that's over I can get back to being mom. I think that was necessary to practice that, and I think women and moms, in full general, are able to put things into categories and things in general, similar "I'm mom right at present, now I have to focus entirely on training, now I'chiliad back to existence mom," just bouncing between those two. Making sure that I'm ok and mentally checked into my preparation ways that I can exist a good mom to Ava off the mat. It was actually good to balance it all.
GMS: Thank you for your time Angela, hope to see y'all fight again this twelvemonth.
Angela Lee: For sure, cheers!
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