Other names Unstoppable Stance Orthodox Height 1.63 m Nationality American | Style Pankration Fighting out of Singapore Weight 52 kg Parents Jewelz Lee, Ken Lee | |
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Born Angela Lee
July 8, 1996 (age 20)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ( 1996-07-08 ) Division Strawweight, atomweight Team Evolve MMA (Singapore)
United MMA (United States) Siblings Christian Lee, Victoria Lee, Adrian Lee Similar Mei Yamaguchi, Brandon Vera, Cody Garbrandt, Eduard Folayang, Shinya Aoki Profiles | ||
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Angela Lee (born July 8, 1996) is a Canadian-American mixed martial artist.
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- Total combat lena tkhorevska vs angela lee
- Video blog one superstar angela lee moves to singapore
- Mixed martial arts career
- ONE Championship
- Amateur pankration
- Scholastic wrestling
- Mixed martial arts
- References
Born in Vancouver to a Singaporean father and a South Korean mother, Lee moved to Hawaii at the age of 7. Her parents are both martial artists, so she began training at a very young age and competing at the age of six. Her younger brother Christian Lee is also an MMA fighter and she has two younger siblings who both train in martial arts.
In 2011, Lee won her division at the USA Amateur pankration national championships, and she followed that the next year by winning her division at the World Pangration Athlima Federation world championships in Greece. On May 5, 2016, she became the youngest person to ever win a world title in MMA by defeating Mei Yamaguchi to win the ONE Women's Atomweight (115 lbs) Title. As of May 2016, Fight Matrix ranks her #17 female MMA Strawweight (115 lbs) in the world.
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Mixed martial arts career
In 2014 Lee made her amateur debut, and in November of that year she won a title at amateur level, beating Audrey Perkins at Destiny MMA: Na Koa 7 in Honolulu to become the Destiny MMA strawweight champion.
ONE Championship
Lee signed with ONE Championship in 2014 and made her promotional debut at ONE Championship 28: Warrior's Quest on 22 May 2015, submitting Aya Saber with an armbar in the opening round.
Following the win Lee dropped out of her business administration degree course at a university in Hawaii and moved to Singapore to join Evolve MMA. In her next fight she faced Mona Samir at ONE Championship: Odyssey of Champions on 27 September 2015 and won with a first round rear naked choke.
Lee's third professional fight was at ONE Championship 33: Pride of Lions on Nov 13, 2015 and she submitted Natalie Gonzales Hills with a twister in the opening round in what commentators described as a potential submission of the year contender. She subsequently won the 2015 WMMA Press Award for Submission of the Year.
Next, she faced Lena Tkhorevska at ONE Championship 36: Spirit of Champions on Dec 11, 2015 and won with a rear naked choke in the second round. Lee's first fight of 2016 was against Rebecca Heintzman at ONE Championship 39: Tribe of Warriors on Feb 20, 2016, and she won with a second round neck crank.
Lee's reward for submitting her first five opponents was a shot at the inaugural ONE Championship Atomweight Women's Title against Japanese veteran Mei Yamaguchi at ONE Championship 42: Ascent to Power on May 6, 2016. Winning the fight would make her the youngest-ever MMA world champion.
Lee won the fight by unanimous decision to become the inaugural ONE Women's Atomweight Champion,and received a $68,200 SGD bonus for her performance. The MMA media described her fight with Yamaguchi as a Fight of the Year contender. She subsequently signed a new contract with ONE Championship. Commentators speculated that her new contract made Lee the highest paid teenager in the history of MMA, male or female.