ONE Championship: Stamp Fairtex expects Xiong Jingnan to ‘handle’ Angela Lee in strawweight title fight
- Xiong and Lee will meet for a third time on October 1 in Singapore, with the former’s strawweight title hanging in the balance
- Thailand’s Stamp backs Xiong to win trilogy, pointing to the Chinese champion’s ‘fast and heavy’ strikes as a key to victory
Stamp Fairtex is backing Xiong Jingnan to defeat Angela Lee at ONE Championship on Prime Video 2.
China’s Xiong, ONE’s strawweight MMA champion, will defend her title against the Canadian-American Lee, the atomweight champion, in the main event of the card, slated for October 1 in Singapore.
It will be the third time the two champions have met, after trading a win apiece in their first two fights, and Thailand’s Stamp – one of the promotion’s biggest stars – is backing Xiong to end the rivalry on top.
“I think Xiong will still beat Angela in the strawweight division because this is her natural weight and her own belt,” she told ONE Championship’s official website. “She definitely trains hard to defend her title.”
Stamp, who will return to the ONE Circle against Jihin Radzuan in an atomweight bout on the same card, last fought in March, when she was submitted by Lee in a failed bid to swipe the division’s title.
While she was unable to defeat the atomweight champion, she got a good sense of her game in the fight, and believes she spotted a few weaknesses that Xiong might be able to expose.
“While this is Angela’s second fight after she returned from childbirth, in our last fight, I noticed that her cardio was still a bit off,” she said. “Xiong Jingnan has been more active in the Circle than Angela in recent years, so I think this is one of her advantages.