Christian Lee RETAINS THE ONE LIGHTWEIGHT
WORLD TITLE
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April 15, 2021
Stock in Christian
Lee continues to surge under the One Championship flag.
Lee retained his undisputed lightweight crown in scintillating
fashion, as he put away Timofey
Nastyukhin with punches a little more than a minute into their
One on TNT 2 headliner on Wednesday at Singapore Indoor Stadium in
Kallang, Singapore. Unable to build on back-to-back wins over
Eddie
Alvarez and Pieter
Buist, Nastyukhin (14-5, 7-4 One) crashed and burned 1:13 into
Round 1.
After failing to secure a takedown, Lee (15-3, 15-3 One) clipped
the Russian with a left hook, pushed him to the canvas and unloaded
with a barrage of punches. Nastyukhin failed to intelligently
defend himself from the assault, prompting referee Mohamad Sulaiman
to intervene.
The 22-year-old Lee has won six fights in a row, four of them
inside one round.
Meanwhile, Shuo Wang
wiped out Kyu Sung
Kim with an elbow strike and follow-up punches in the third
round of their flyweight feature. Kim (15-5, 1-3 One) bowed out
1:51 into Round 3, as he suffered his third loss in four
appearances.
Neither man separated himself through the first two rounds. Kim
appeared to turn a corner in the third with body kicks and straight
right hands. However, Wang (12-4, 1-0 One) countered left hook from the South Korean and
stepped in with a devastating standing elbow. Kim collapsed and ate
a few more punches before the stoppage was called.
Wang, 26, has rattled off five consecutive victories, three of them
finishes.
In other action, Shinechagtaga
Zoltsetseg (6-3, 5-2 One) was disqualified after he delivered an illegal soccer
kick to Yoshiki
Nakahara (15-5, 3-1 One) in the second round of their
featherweight battle; Shuya
Kamikubo (12-1, 5-0 One) submitted Mitchell
Chamale (7-3, 0-1 One) with a rear-naked choke 2:13 into the second round
of their bantamweight affair; and Janet Todd put away Anne Line
Hogstad with a body kick 1:36 into the third round of a women’s
atomweight clash contested under muay Thai rules.