Angela Lee was on the earth title image for greater than half of her storied profession, however there was one combat that stood out amongst all of her high-profile matches in ONE Championship.
That match in query was the one wherein she defended the ONE girls’s atomweight MMA world title towards then-future world champion Stamp Fairtex.
In an interview with ESPN, Lee mentioned her ONE X match towards Stamp on the Singapore Indoor Stadium in March 2022 was probably the most memorable one in her profession.
Not solely did Lee retain the gold, however it was additionally her first match since giving beginning to her daughter Ava in 2021.
Lee, who has since retired from MMA, mentioned:
“So many nice ones, however I feel my favourite reminiscence or second was coming again to defend my title after giving beginning to my daughter. I gave beginning to her, and 11 months later I got here again, and I used to be in one of the best form of my life, and I defended my belt, and I feel for me that was very particular.”
Coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic that left the world at a standstill, Lee additionally took her time taking good care of Ava in 2021.
It wasn’t till 2022 that ‘Unstoppable’ was capable of return to kind and defend her strap towards Stamp, who was then the ONE Atomweight MMA World Grand Prix Champion.
Though Lee was coming off a profitable world title protection towards ONE girls’s strawweight MMA world champion Xiong Jing Nan in 2019, there have been nonetheless uncertainties when she took on Stamp in her return.
Stamp even had Lee in bother when she related with a brutal left hook to the physique halfway by way of the primary spherical.
Lee, nonetheless, recovered and located her footing within the second. The Singaporean-American star scored a takedown 30 seconds into the second and had Stamp beneath her management for the rest of the combat.
After Stamp escaped from a triangle choke and a tornado, Lee continued her floor assault and locked in a rear-naked choke that pressured the Thai megastar to submit with 10 seconds remaining within the second.
Watch Lee’s complete interview beneath: