ONE Championship: Christian Lee plots first-round KO in Ok Rae-yoon rematch – ‘I’m very much looking forward to getting my title back’
- Canadian-American is ‘100 per cent confident’ ahead of ONE 160 headliner on August 26 in Singapore
- ‘I plan on finishing him,’ Lee says, after losing belt to the South Korean via controversial decision last year
Christian Lee is hoping the relieve the judges of their responsibility in his next fight.
The Canadian-born American is set to challenge Ok Rae-yoon in the headlining attraction of the ONE Championship 160 event in Singapore, with the promotion’s lightweight MMA title hanging in the balance.
In his perfect world, the fight will be over long before the judges begin tallying their scores.
“I see it as a first-round knockout,” the 24-year-old told the Post on Thursday.
It is easy to understand why Lee (15-4) is hoping to avoid the scorecards against Ok (16-3).
ONE 160 will mark his second meeting with the 31-year-old South Korean star. They first met at ONE: Revolution last September, when Lee was the defending champion. Ok won the fight by unanimous decision, but it was one of the most controversial verdicts in the promotion’s history.
“I haven’t obsessively watched the fight – maybe five times,” he said. “Every time I try to step back and watch the fight without any bias, but I still feel that I won. I go through the ONE Championship scoring criteria for the fights, and I still don’t see how I lost it in any way.”