The trilogy fight between Xiong and Lee
lived up to its billing.
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October 1, 2022
Jingnan
Xiong retained the One
Championship women’s strawweight title with a unanimous
decision over archrival Angela Lee
in the
ONE on Prime Video 2 headliner on Friday at Singapore Indoor
Stadium in Kallang Singapore. Xiong (18-2, 9-1 ONE) won the
approval of all three cageside judges, improving to 2-1 in her
head-to-head series with the “Unstoppable” Hawaiian.
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In many regards, it was all about the first round. There, Xiong had
her challenger on skates more than once with punishing right hands
and follow-up attacks. Referee Herb Dean appeared to be on the
verge of calling for the stoppage on multiple occasions, only to
allow Lee (11-3, 11-3 ONE) to continue forward. Nowhere else in the
bout were the exchanges between the two women more profound.
Lee had her moments—she zeroed in on the neck in the second round,
enjoyed some success in the clinch and utilized more variety than
the champion—but could never swing the momentum permanently to her
side. Xiong downshifted later in the main event and left the door
open but re-established her hands as the dominant force in the
fifth round, where combination punching and effective counters
managed to keep the spirited Lee at bay.
Meanwhile, Nong Stamp
outstruck and outgrappled Jihin
Radzuan to a unanimous decision in their three-round atomweight
attraction. All three members of the judiciary sided with Stamp
(9-2, 9-2 ONE), who rebounded from her March 26 submission defeat
to the aforementioned Lee.
After a relatively uneventful first round, Stamp found another gear
in the second. There, she dropped Radzuan (8-3, 7-3 ONE) with a
right hand, scrambled to the back and threatened with a rear-naked
choke. While those advances were denied, the tide had shifted.
Stamp floored the Malaysian with a crushing short-range elbow
strike early in Round 3, jumped into half guard and racked up
points with elbows from the top. She later escaped a dangerous
armbar attempt from Radzuan and answered with a kneebar from the
bottom before the remaining time bled off the clock.
The loss snapped Radzuan’s run of consecutive victories at
three.
Elsewhere, Ilya
Freymanov dazzled in his organizational debut, as he struck
former two-division ONE champion Martin
Nguyen into submission with knees to the head in the first
round of their featherweight showcase. Nguyen (14-6, 11-6 ONE)
tapped out to repeated blows 3:33 into Round 1, losing
for the third time in four outings.
The 26-year-old Freymanov (11-1, 1-0 ONE) stuffed an initial
takedown from the Kill Cliff Fight Club rep and went about attack
him with kicks at all levels. He followed a knee strike with a
thudding right cross that sat down Nguyen and triggered his
retreat. Freymanov offered him no refuge, as he hammered away with
standing-to-ground punches, forced him to retreat into a crouched
defensive shell at the base of the cage and then cut loose with
knees to the head until the job was done.
Freymanov will carry a four-fight winning streak into his next
assignment.
Finally, undefeated promotional newcomer Halil Amir
put away Timofey
Nastyukhin with
punches in the second round of their lightweight
feature. Nastyukhin (14-7, 7-6 ONE), who suddenly
finds himself on a three-fight losing streak, bowed out 58 seconds
into Round 2.
Neither man backed down during a back-and-forth first round. Amir
(8-0, 1-0 ONE) uncoiled at the start of the middle stanza, where he
dazed his counterpart with a clean right hook, rushed behind it
with knees and punches, floored the Russian with a left and swarmed
with punches to prompt the stoppage.
The 28-year-old Amir has finished all eight of his opponents.
In other action, Mikey Musumeci (59-5) captured the inaugural
flyweight submission grabbling championship with a unanimous
decision over Cleber Sousa (86-40) in their one-round, 10-minute
match at 135 pounds; Marat
Grigorian (66-12-1) laid claim to a unanimous decision over
Tayfun Ozcan (84-10-3) in a three-round featherweight kickboxing
encounter; Ho Taek Oh
(9-2-1, 1-0 ONE) eked out a split decision over Ryogo
Takahashi (14-6, 2-4 ONE) in a three-round featherweight
affair; Anissa
Meksen (103-5) cruised to a unanimous decision over Daokongfah
Banchamek (125-18-8) in a three-round women’s atomweight muay thai
clash; and Rade Opacic
(31-8) took out Giannis
Stoforidis (16-6)
with punches 1:52 into the second round of their heavyweight grand
prix alternate bout.