Angela Lee is a mixed martial artist with Singaporean, Chinese, and Korean roots. She was born in Canada and now lives in the United States. On May 5, 2016, Lee beat Mei Yamaguchi to win the ONE Women’s Atomweight (115 lbs) Title. This made her the youngest person to ever win a world title in MMA. Fight Matrix ranks her as the #18 best female MMA Strawweight (105.1-115 lbs) in the world. She is also #3 in the ONE Championship Women’s Strawweight rankings right now.
Angela Seung Ju Lee was born in Vancouver, Canada, on July 8, 1996, making her 25 years old. She was born in Singapore to a Chinese father, Ken Lee, and a South Korean mother, Jewelz Lee, who was raised in Canada. Lee moved to Hawaii when she was 7 years old. Her parents are both martial artists, so she started training and competing when she was young. Her younger brother Christian Lee is also an MMA fighter, and her younger sisters Victoria Lee and Adrian Lee, who were both born in Waipahu, also train in martial arts.
Angela Lee won her division at the USA Amateur Pankration National Championships in 2011 and at the World Pankration Athlima Federation World Championships in Greece the following year. On February 9, 2018, third-degree black belt Mike Fowler and her father Ken Lee, who is also a black belt, gave Lee her Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
Lee started fighting as an amateur in 2014. In November of that year, she beat Audrey Perkins at Destiny MMA: Na Koa 7 in Honolulu to win the strawweight title for Destiny MMA.
Angela Lee Career
Angela Lee signed with ONE Championship in 2014. At ONE Championship 28: Warrior’s Quest on May 22, 2015, she beat Aya Saber with an armbar in the first round, which was her first fight for the promotion. After she won, Lee stopped going to business school in Hawaii and moved to Singapore to join Evolve MMA. At ONE Championship: Odyssey of Champions on September 27, 2015, she beat Mona Samir in the first round with a rear-naked chokehold.
At ONE Championship 33: Pride of Lions on November 13, 2015, Lee had her third professional fight. In the first round, she put Natalie Gonzales Hills to sleep with a twister, which commentators said could be a contender for submission of the year. She later won the WMMA Press Award for Submission of the Year in 2015.
Next, she fought Lena Tkhorevska on December 11, 2015, at ONE Championship 36: Spirit of Champions. In the second round, she won with a rear-naked choke. Lee’s first fight of 2016 was on February 20, 2016, at ONE Championship 39: Tribe of Warriors. She fought Rebecca Heintzman and won with a neck crank in the second round.
Angela Lee got to fight Mei Yamaguchi for the first ONE Championship Atomweight Women’s Title at ONE Championship 42: Ascent to Power on May 6, 2016. Mei Yamaguchi is a veteran fighter from Japan. If she won, she would be the youngest MMA world champion ever.
Lee won the fight by unanimous decision and became the first ONE Women’s Atomweight Champion. For her performance, she got a $68,200 SGD bonus. The MMA press said that her fight with Yamaguchi could be a candidate for Fight of the Year. After that, she made a new deal with ONE Championship. Commentators thought that Lee’s new contract made her the highest-paid teen MMA fighter, male or female, ever.
On March 11, 2017, she beat Jenny Huang of Taiwan and kept the title of Atomweight World Champion. On May 27, 2017, she successfully defended her title against Brazil’s Estela Nunes for the second time.
On November 8, 2017, Chatri Sityodtong said that Angela Lee had been in a bad car accident because she had fallen asleep while driving. She got a concussion and some minor burns, but she was able to survive the accident. The fight between Lee and Mei Yamaguchi, which was supposed to happen on November 24, has been moved to May 18, 2018, in Singapore at One Championship Unstoppable Dreams. Lee won via unanimous decision.
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Angela Lee was supposed to fight Jingnan Xiong, the current strawweight champion, at ONE Championship 78: Heart of the Lion on November 9, 2018, in an attempt to become the first woman in ONE Championship history to win titles in two different weight classes. But on November 5, 2018, Lee said that she couldn’t do the card because she hurt her back. The fight did happen at One Championship: A New Era on March 31, 2019. Lee was knocked out by a TKO in the fifth round, ending her streak of wins. Angela Lee lost again at ONE Championship: Masters of Destiny. This time, Michelle Nicolini beat her by a unanimous decision.
Early life
| Name | Angela Lee |
| Net Worth | $4 million |
| Occupation | Mixed martial artist |
| Age | 25 years |
| Height | 1.73m |
| Husband | Bruno Pucci |
Where Was She Born
Lee was born in Vancouver to a Chinese-Singaporean father named Ken Lee and a Canadian mother named Jewelz Lee, who was born in South Korea. At age 7, she moved to Hawaii with her family. Her parents are both martial artists, so she started training and competing when she was young.
At ONE Championship: Century on October 13, 2019, Lee defended her ONE Atomweight Championship against Xiong Jingnan, whose Strawweight Championship she had failed to win. She won the fight in the fifth round when the other person gave up. Lee will defend her Atomweight title against Stamp Fairtex, who won the ONE Women’s Atomweight Grand Prix, on March 6, 2022, at ONE Championship: X.
Angela Lee Husband
Angela Lee is married to Bruno Pucci, who is also a mixed martial artist. They got married in 2018. On October 1, 2020, Lee posted on social media that she and her boyfriend were going to have a baby in April 2021. Lee and her husband are both head coaches at the gym they started in 2021 called United BJJ Hawaii. The opening of their gym was pushed back by a few days because it was vandalized right before the date. Angela Lee is a citizen of both the United States and Canada.
Angela Lee Net Worth
What is Angela Lee’s net worth? Angela Lee is thought to have a net worth of about $4 million. Her job as a mixed martial artist is her main source of income. Lee’s successful career has given her a nice place to live and trips in nice cars. She is one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful mixed martial artists. But Lee’s younger brother Christian was the ONE Lightweight World Champion, and her youngest sister Victoria made a successful MMA debut on February 26, 2021, at the age of 16.
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