Christian Lee is again.
The reigning ONE Championship light-weight and welterweight champion is lastly able to resume his profession with a struggle booked on the ONE 169 card on the State Farm Area in Atlanta on Nov. 8. On that evening, Lee defends his ONE light-weight title towards Alibeg Rasulov, who only in the near past beat former ONE champion Okay Rae Yoon to earn his alternative at turning into champion.
ONE Championship officers confirmed the information to MMA Preventing on Friday.
Lee’s return comes after he took an extended hiatus from the game following the tragic dying of his sister Victoria Lee, who was additionally early in her profession competing at ONE Championship when she handed away in 2022 at simply 18 years of age.
Lee and his older sister Angela Lee each took time without work from the game to mourn Victoria’s dying and ONE CEO Chatri Sityodtong admitted he wasn’t positive both of them would even return to compete once more.
Whereas Angela finally determined to retire after revealing that her sister Victoria died by suicide and he or she now wished to dedicate herself to a brand new non-profit group targeted on psychological well being, Christian was adamant about finally preventing once more.
Now he makes his return virtually precisely two years after his earlier look in ONE when he defeated Kiamrian Abbasov to turn out to be a two-division champion.
He’ll step proper again into deep waters when Lee faces Rasulov, who comes into the struggle with an ideal 14-0 document together with his debut win in ONE in July.
The ONE card in Atlanta is headlined by heavyweight champion Anatoly Malykhin defending his belt towards Oumar “Reug Reug” Kane.
