ONE Championship titleholder Angela Lee unexpectedly retired Friday at ONE Fight Night 14.
This decision was made shortly after the following revelations. player tribune In it, Lee detailed her 2017 suicide attempt and revealed that her 18-year-old sister, Victoria Lee, died by suicide in 2022.
Lee, 27, made the announcement just before a scheduled interim title fight between Stamp Fairtex and Seo Hee-ham, vacating the promotion’s 115-pound title. With this retirement, the fight for the interim title became moot. In the end, Fairtex took home the hardware via TKO.
In MMA, it’s not often that a fighter retires while at the top. Don’t worry about it while they are young. Lee is an unusual case study in MMA, but he will always be treated as a superstar in ONE Championship history.
On MMA Junkie’s “Spinning Back Creek” panel, Brian “Gose” Garcia, Dan Tom, and Danny Segura join host George Garcia to discuss Lee’s retirement, her legacy, and more.
Watch their discussion in the video above. Also, don’t miss this week’s full episode of “Spinning Back Clique” on YouTube or in podcast format below.
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