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Christian Lee wanting to headline a U.S ONE Championship show
Christian Lee defends his lightweight world championship against Ok Rae Yoon in the main event of ONE: Revolution. This goes down on Friday, September 24th at Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Lee is 15-3 overall in his MMA endeavors and has solely plied his trade for ONE Championship for nearly six years now.
The Warrior has back-to-back first-round finishes and Lee is riding a six-fight win streak overall. With a victory here in the ONE Circle, Christian Lee will have bested every individual currently ranked in the top five of the weight category.
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The Grand Prix and lineal divisional champion looks to make the third defense of his lineal belt as Lee tests skills with Yoon later on this month.
I spoke with Christian Lee at a recent ONE Championship media day for the Lee family. Excerpts from my interaction with him can be found below.
Christian Lee
There’s been some level of dialogue so far about a ONE Championship show transpiring in America.
I’m kind of wondering what would the temperature be for you on performing on a show in America under the ONE banner?
“I would love to be the first person to headline an event when ONE Championship comes to America. I live here in Hawaii. This is my home, you know. So America is where I live. I would love to headline that event and I think that ONE Championship coming to America would be very big. There’s already a very strong following of people that watch every single ONE Championship event. Or watch it on the re-run because you know the time zones are very different.”
“But I think that if there was a ONE Championship event to come here, primetime US show, then it would just build a huge following of fans for ONE Championship here in America. I hope to see more and more shows able to come to America by next year.”
