Heading into the third and final chapter of their grueling rivalry at the 12,000-seater Singapore Indoor Stadium, both ladies were determined to lay claim to the status as the most dominant female competitor to ever grace the promotion. It was a different story in the rematch seven months later when Lee's atomweight trinket was up for grabs as she exacted revenge on Xiong courtesy of a rear-naked choke in the fifth round. Lee recovered just in time for the Singapore-based combat sports outfit's first live event in Tokyo, Japan in March 2019, which saw Xiong author a thunderous fifth-round technical knockout to retain the women's strawweight belt. Xiong Jing Nan and Angela Lee had an intense staredown during the ceremonial weigh-ins for their trilogy bout at ONE on Prime Video 2. Their first cage meeting was originally set to happen in November 2018, but the injuries that Lee sustained from a car accident forced her to pull out of the bout. Talks of a champion-versus-champion showdown began as soon as Xiong was enshrined as the inaugural ONE women's strawweight titleholder with a lopsided drubbing of Tiffany Teo over four years ago. "The Panda" made sure that she would come back home to China with the women's strawweight championship wrapped around her waist by prevailing over the reigning atomweight queen in their trilogy bout that headlined ONE on Prime Video 2. History repeated itself on Saturday, October 1 (Friday, September 30 in the United States) as Xiong Jing Nan once again impeded Angela Lee from fully realizing her dream of becoming a two-division mixed martial arts (MMA) world champion. She remains undefeated in ONE Championship's strawweight division.The Chinese has now recorded seven successful defenses of her strawweight championship.Xiong Jing Nan denies Angela Lee's bid to become a two-division champion.
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