Bravo! Angela Lee gets nod of approval from combat sport legend
Famed jiu-jitsu master Eddie Bravo keeps watch on rise of Asia’s biggest MMA star
Eddie Bravo has guided a generation of the world’s top mixed martial artists through the finer points of jiu-jitsu -as they have added its skills to their arsenal and the America combat sport legend revealed on Wednesday he has kept an eye on the rise of Angela Lee, the biggest star MMA has in Asia.
“Yeah I’ve been watching her – everyone has,” said Bravo.
Like the world of MMA itself, Bravo will get to check in on Lee’s progress come Friday night when the unbeaten 20-year-old sensation puts her One Championship atomweight world title on the line against Brazilian Istela Nunes as the co-headline bout of the One: Dynasty of Heroes card.
Bravo will be among an expected sellout crowd of 12,000 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, having come to town also to host jiu-jitsu “super camp” at Singapore’s Evolve MMA gym – out of which Lee fights – as well as catch a quick breath from his regular spot as the agent provocateur on the wildly popular combat sport-tinged podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.
The 47-year-old black belt – founder of the 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu global gym chain – is never short of an opinion, as fans of that podcast can attest, and he revealed Lee had first captured his attention when using a “twister” move to end her bout against Natalie Gonzales Hills back in 2015, the third win of Lee’s seven so far.