ONE Championship: Christian Lee says lightweight title loss to Ok Rae-yoon is ‘BS’, wants review
- ‘The Warrior’ calls for Asian promotion to overturn his shock unanimous decision defeat by South Korean
- ‘This decision is not sitting well with me … if I had lost the fight, I would keep my mouth shut, but I didn’t,’ Lee says
Christian Lee has called for a review from ONE Championship after his shock unanimous decision defeat by Ok Rae-yoon in Friday night’s Revolution main event.
“The Warrior” (15-4) surrendered his lightweight title to the South Korean (16-3) after a five-round war in Singapore, but was despondent and demanded the result be overturned by the Asian promotion’s competition committee.
“Now listen,” Lee said in a post-fight interview in the cage after his loss. “I have a lot of respect for Ok – he’s a warrior, he’s very tough.
“I won that fight. I have absolute respect for that fight. Let’s bring it to the board. I want an instant rematch. That was bulls***. I believe in my skills, let’s bring it to the board, make the decision. Overturn it. Let’s get a rematch.”
Lee later spoke to reporters on a virtual media scrum, and insisted that if there is a rematch he would be the champion, because the fight should be overturned, and that the bout should not count as a loss on his record.