“Right now I just feel like I’m dreaming still.” Johnson shines to unanimous decision win in grand prix final “Honestly it feels like a dream,” Lee said.
A close fourth round set up what might’ve been a deciding fifth, if not for the fight-ending sequence. But Lee settled in as the fight progressed, controlling Xiong on the mat for most of Rounds 2 and 3. Lee struggled in the early going as she was succeptible to Xiong’s striking in the first round, particularly with a left hook that kept landing. It served to snap a two-fight losing streak at strawweight, as well as exact a measure of revenge aginst strawweight champ Xiong, who won by fifth-round TKO over Lee back in March. In addition to retaining her title, the victory did a couple of other things for Lee. That was entirely my family and my team, and I owe it all to them for this defense right here.” “All I could hear was my dad and my brother’s voice in my corner coaching me through that last round. I didn’t really know what I was doing,” Lee said. Instead, the move led to control on the mat and an eventual rear-naked choke submission at the 4:48 mark of the final frame.
But Lee recovered and responded with the biggest moment of the fight, delivering a belly-to-back suplex that restored order. Lee had been hit hard by a pair of 1-2 combos from Jing Nan Xiong during the fifth round of their ONE Championship 100: Part 1 headliner. If not for Angela Lee’s corner, a new ONE Championship women’s atomweight champion might’ve been crowned Saturday.
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