Musumeci, 26, kept Sousa on the defensive for the majority of the 10-minute match, stringing together a relentless stream of leglocks and other submission attacks from his guard.įollowing his win, Musumeci respectfully asked to face ONE flyweight champion and MMA legend Demetrious Johnson in a crossover showdown. In the night’s co-main event, American jiu-jitsu phenom Mikey Musumeci captured the inaugural ONE flyweight submission grappling world championship with a frenetic unanimous decision win over Cleber Sousa. #ONEonPrimeVideo2 /iSBsiWw1Ki- Prime Video October 1, 2022 The trilogy fight between Xiong and Lee lived up to its billing. “I don’t understand how you can score points on a card with your defense and running backwards, but I gave it my all in this fight.” “Xiong came out really strong in the first round, but I really feel like I was the one who more consistently pushing forward, landing heavy strikes, and I just don’t understand the decision,” Lee said. In the end, Lee was unable to overcome her slow start on the scorecards, although both her and ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong disagreed with the decision. Referee Herb Dean appeared to be close to stopping the action multiple times, however Lee gamely survived to the horn then began to turn the tide in Round 2, dragging Xiong to the mat with a takedown, threatening with multiple submission attempts, and even landing several hard flurries of knees to the head from the clinch.įrom there, Lee found her rhythm, picking away with a steady diet of stiff punches, kicks, and clinch knees, while Xiong continued to find her own success with her boxing. ![]() championship rivalry was no loss exciting, as Xiong got off to a rollicking start and dropped Lee numerous times in the opening round with hard punches and knees to the head. The third iteration of their championship vs. ![]() Lee then repaid the favor seven months later, earning a fifth-round submission to defend her own atomweight belt in the rematch. In their first bout, Xiong defeated Lee via fifth-round TKO to defend her ONE Championship strawweight title. Xiong and Lee previously faced off twice in two memorable battles in 2019, splitting their series at one win apiece. I’m ready for another fight with Angela Lee - whether it’s kickboxing, it’s MMA, let’s go.” “The audience here may have a different opinion, but I’m always prepared. “Only my team and I really understand what I had to go through to really prepare for the match,” Xiong said afterward through a translator. ![]() Lee (11-3) likely would’ve won under MMA’s traditional western scoring system, however ONE Championship scores fights as a whole rather than round-by-round, and the immense damage Xiong (18-2) exacted on Lee in the opening round was ultimately what swayed the decision in her favor. Two of the most dominant women in ONE Championship history added a thrilling third chapter to their rivalry Friday night, with Xiong taking a hard-fought unanimous decision over Lee to notch the seventh defense of her strawweight title in the main event of ONE on Prime Video 2, which took place at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. She suffered her only loss when she faced Alyona Rassohyna in January 2021 but after this match she took revenge on Rassohyna and she has also beat Julie Mezabarba and Ritu Phogat.Xiong Jing Nan and Angela Lee were born to fight one another. Her opponent, the former kickboxing and mma One Fc champ Nong Stamp Fairtex, has an official record of 8-1-0 (62% finishing rate) and she entered as the No.14 in the strawweight division. ![]() Lee ‘s next fight: Jing Nan Xiong vs Angela Lee 3 She lost two consecutive bouts in 2019, against Jing Nan Xiong and Michelle Nicolini but then she took revenge on Xiong Jing Nan ( Jing Nan Xiong vs Angela Lee 2). The black belt in tae-kwon-do, Bjj and current One FC champion Angela Lee entered this fight with a professional mma record of 10-2-0 ( 80% finishing rate) but she is not ranked as she hasn’t fought since 2019. Stamp vs Lee is the main event of ONE X and it is valid for the ONE Women’s atomweight title. Review by :, pretty good mma fight: Angela Lee vs Nong Stamp Fairtex gets three stars (take a look at our ranking of the Best Mma Fights of 2022).
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