Jingnan Xiong Quells Angela Lee, Retains Strawweight Title at One on Prime Video 2

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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.

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.

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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.