ONE Championship's Victoria Lee was about to make her comeback when she died, aged 18.
shocked the world of combat sports and beyond, with fans and fellow athletes mourning the loss of a rising star.
Victoria Sun-hei Lee was born in Wahiawa, Hawaii, on May 17, 2004, to a Chinese-Singaporean father and a South Korean-born Canadian mother. "So, from a very young age, maybe three or four years old, every one of my children trained in martial arts.""When we had the gyms in Canada, it was more on a commercial level," Ken Lee said in 2020."In Hawaii, it was all for our children."By the time Victoria Lee made her professional MMA debut, the Lee family already had two world champions competing under the flags of Singapore and the United States.
Angela Lee's most recent fight was at ONE on Prime Video 2 on Sep 30 last year, where she came up short in an attempt to win the strawweight world title from Xiong Jing Nan.Four years later, he captured the ONE lightweight world championship, becoming the youngest male MMA world champion and making him and Angela Lee the only MMA world champion siblings, according to ONE.
She made her debut at the age of 16 at ONE Championship: Fists of Fury on Feb 26 of that year, defeating Thailand's Sunisa Srisen by submission with a rear-naked choke in the second round of their bout. When she was signed by ONE in September 2020, the promotion's chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong introduced her as a world champion before noting that she had two famous siblings.
But after graduating from high school last May, she said that she was looking forward to turning her focus back to MMA. "I would love to get back in the Circle. Maybe towards the end of this year. I just started training again, and I'll definitely be ready by the end of this year," she said.
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