ONE Championship: Stamp Fairtex sends support to Victoria Lee’s family – ‘please be strong’
- ‘This trial that you have to pass is a difficult time, but come back stronger,’ Stamp tells Lee family after 18-year-old fighter’s tragic death
- The Thai battled Victoria’s older sister, Angela Lee, in the main event of the martial arts promotion’s 10th anniversary celebration last March
Stamp Fairtex has sent her support to Victoria Lee’s family after the rising ONE Championship star’s death at 18 years old.
The Thai battled Victoria’s older sister, Angela Lee, in the main event of the martial arts promotion’s 10th anniversary celebration, ONE X, last March.
Angela retained her atomweight MMA title in that clash with a second-round rear-naked choke, and the pair shared an emotional embrace in the cage.
Victoria, who went 3-0 in her brief career in ONE, was watching from the family’s home in Hawaii along with brother Christian Lee, a two-division MMA champ. But Stamp met Angela’s husband, parents and 1-year-old daughter backstage at Singapore Indoor Stadium after the fight in a showing of mutual respect that went viral.
“It was very shocking news for me and it was so sad, because both of Victoria’s siblings were paving the way for her and she was doing so great,” Stamp told the Post.
“I’m so sorry for the Lee family. Please be strong. This trial that you have to pass is a difficult time, but come back stronger.”
The 25-year-old Stamp (9-2), who is ranked No 1 in the atomweight division, returns to action in Bangkok on Saturday in a special mixed-rules fight against feared striking superstar Anissa Meksen. The four-round bout will alternate between MMA and Muay Thai rules, starting with the latter.
