1. Angela Seung Ju Pucci, known as Angela Lee Pucci, is a Canadian-born American combat sports mental health advocate and former professional mixed martial artist.
33 Facts About Angela Lee
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Angela Lee competed in the atomweight and strawweight divisions of ONE Championship, where she was the inaugural ONE Atomweight World Champion.
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Undefeated at atomweight, Lee successfully defended the belt five times before vacating the title when she retired from the sport in September 2023.
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Angela Lee holds the record for longest-championship reign in ONE history at more than seven years.
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On May 5,2016, Angela Lee became the youngest person to ever win a world title in MMA by defeating Mei Yamaguchi to win the inaugural ONE Atomweight World Championship at 19 years old and 9 months.
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When her younger brother Christian Angela Lee won the ONE Lightweight World Championship in May 2019, they became the first sister-brother pair of mixed martial arts world champions.
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Angela Lee moved to Hawaii with her family at age 7.
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Angela Lee's parents are both martial artists, so she began training at a young age and competing at age 6.
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Angela Lee's younger sister Victoria, who was a mixed martial artist signed to ONE, died in 2022 at the age of 18.
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In 2011, Angela Lee won her division at the USA Amateur pankration national championships, and the next year, she claimed her division at the World Pangration Athlima Federation world championships in Greece.
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Angela Lee was awarded her Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt on February 9,2018, by third-degree black belt Mike Fowler and her father Ken Angela Lee, who is a black belt.
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In 2014, Angela Lee made her amateur debut, and in November of that year she won an amateur title by beating Audrey Perkins at Destiny MMA: Na Koa 7 in Honolulu to become the Destiny MMA strawweight champion.
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Angela Lee signed with ONE Championship in 2014 and made her promotional debut at ONE Championship 28: Warrior's Quest on May 22,2015, submitting Aya Saber with an armbar in the opening round.
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Angela Lee subsequently won the 2015 WMMA Press Award for Submission of the Year.
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Angela Lee's first fight of 2016 was against Rebecca Heintzman at ONE Championship 39: Tribe of Warriors on February 20,2016, and she won with a second round neck crank.
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Angela Lee's reward for submitting her first five opponents was a shot at the inaugural ONE Championship Atomweight Women's Title against Japanese veteran Mei Yamaguchi at ONE Championship 42: Ascent to Power on May 6,2016.
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Angela Lee won the fight by unanimous decision to become the inaugural ONE Women's Atomweight Champion, and received a $68,200 SGD bonus for her performance.
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Angela Lee subsequently signed a new contract with ONE Championship.
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On March 11,2017, Angela Lee defeated Jenny Huang of Taiwan and retained the Atomweight World Championship title.
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On November 8,2017, Chatri Sityodtong announced that Angela Lee was involved in a serious car accident after she had reportedly fallen asleep at the wheel of her car.
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In 2023, Angela Lee revealed that this was actually a deliberate suicide attempt.
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Angela Lee managed to survive the incident with a concussion and minor burns.
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Angela Lee was expected to face reigning strawweight champion Jingnan Xiong at ONE Championship 78: Heart of the Lion on November 9,2018, in an attempt to become the first female two-division champion in ONE Championship.
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However, on November 5,2018, Angela Lee revealed that she was forced off the card due to a back injury.
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Angela Lee was defeated via TKO in round 5, which snapped her undefeated streak.
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At ONE Championship 96: Masters of Destiny, Angela Lee suffered another defeat at the hands of Michelle Nicolini, via unanimous decision.
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Angela Lee won the fight by submission in the fifth round.
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Angela Lee challenged Xiong Jingnan for the ONE Women's Strawweight Championship at ONE on Prime Video 2 on September 30,2022.
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At ONE Fight Night 14 on September 30,2023, Angela Lee announced her retirement from mixed martial arts and vacated the title during the event.
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Angela Lee is married to fellow mixed martial artist Bruno Pucci.
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On October 1,2020, Angela Lee announced on her social media that she was pregnant.
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On January 7,2023, Angela Lee announced on Instagram that Victoria had died on December 26,2022.
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On September 19,2023, Angela Lee wrote in an article on the Players' Tribune that her 2017 car crash in Hawaii was a suicide attempt, and revealed that her sister Victoria, who died in 2022 at the age of 18, had taken her own life.