The competition between Xiong Jing Nan and Angela Lee is heating up forward in their trilogy bout for the ONE girls’s strawweight international identify.
Xiong will as soon as once more shield the ladies’s strawweight gold in opposition to Lee, the ONE girls’s atomweight international champion, at ONE on High Video 2: Xiong vs. Lee III. The development will happen on September 30 on the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
The 2 feminine international champions have met two times earlier than, with each Xiong and Lee effectively holding their respective international titles. It kind of feels that familiarity has boiled all the way down to contempt with each opponents able to take each and every different’s heads off.
Xiong shared on Instagram a snippet of Lee speaking concerning the Chinese language celebrity’s taste and the way the strawweight queen had develop into tentative in her fresh fights, and was once infrequently spectacular.
Now not one to take a slight, Xiong Jing Nan wrote:
“We’re going to see in case you are inspired after I end you once more?#ONEonPrimeVideo2”
Lee stated within the video that Xiong has been slowing down these days to take a extra cautious and passive option to her fights.
“I tuned in to the previous few fights that she’s had. In truth, me – at the side of the remainder of the enthusiasts – and I’m lovely certain I heard Chatri [Sityodtong] pronouncing as neatly, that they’re no longer too inspired along with her performances. I feel you’ll be able to in reality see that during her previous couple of performances, she’s been enjoying not to lose as an alternative of enjoying to win. And there’s a large distinction there.”
Xiong, who has held her international identify since January 2018, is the one girl to ever knock Lee out within the circle. She did that of their first come upon at ONE: A New Generation in March 2019, effectively protecting her strap.
Lee, on the other hand, were given her comeuppance simply seven months later when she submitted Xiong at ONE: Century Phase I in October of that 12 months to retain her atomweight throne.
Xiong Jing Nan is open to dealing with Stamp Fairtex at atomweight
Xiong Jing Nan is arguably the striker in girls’s strawweight historical past and he or she even fancies dealing with off in opposition to the elite within the atomweight department.
In a prior interview with ONE Championship, Xiong stated she’d love to move down a weight magnificence and feature a tussle with former two-sport international champion Stamp Fairtex.
Stamp, who as soon as held each the ONE Muay Thai and kickboxing girls’s atomweight international titles, has since transitioned into combined martial arts or even took the ONE Girls’s Atomweight Global Grand Prix Championship.
“I feel I would like this. I’ve at all times been any individual who loves demanding situations. Even though with age my physicality and athleticism have modified, I’ve at all times by no means given up. Any person is worthy of my appreciate and studying from. I feel that I will be able to be told from someone’s strengths and this may occasionally lend a hand me to develop,” stated Xiong Jing Nan.