Angela Lee promises an early night
Angela Lee: “It is up to me to deliver. We’re looking to finish this fight quickly.”
Asia’s mixed martial arts superstar Angela Lee will be looking to end her world atomweight title defense against Brazilian challenger Istela Nunes quickly at ONE: Dynasty of Heroes card at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Friday night.
It is up to me to deliver, said Lee to Pedro Chan for Asia Times. We’re looking to finish this fight quickly.
The poster girl for the sport in Asia lives in Hawai’i, but trains at Evolve MMA in Singapore. Friday will be Lee’s second title defense. She first defended her title vs. Taiwan’s Jenny Huang on March 11 in Thailand’s IMPACT Muang Thong Thani stadium.
The hard work has been done so now it’s all about strategy and game plan,” said the black belt in Taekwondo and brown belt in BJJ. “I’d trained really hard coming into Bangkok and we were able to carry that over coming into this fight because they are so close together. If I could I’d have all my fights close together.
At the beginning of my career my fights were pretty much all back to back and in that way it was easy for me to keep my weight down and just stay in the best shape. That’s how I feel now, too.
Undefeated ONE welterweight champion Ben Askren fights Malaysia’s Agilan Thani in the co-main event on Friday night.
ONE has been growing and this looks like being their biggest year ever, said Askren, who after a series of odd events has not fought since April 15, 2016. I’m just excited to fight again and hopefully ONE Championship can keep me really busy this year because I’m just looking to get a bunch of fights. I love to fight. I wouldn’t be talking to you now if that wasn’t the case.
Three weeks after Friday’s ONE: Dynasty of Heroes, the UFC will return to Singapore, and Asia. While fighting is, truly, in all our DNA as UFC president Dana White says, like food, there are flavors to fight promotions. A fight is underway between ONE and the UFC for the hearts and minds of fans in Asia.