ONE Championship: Masters of Destiny Sees Angela Lee Try Strawweight Again

Angela Lee vs. Xiong Jing Nan
Xiong Jing Nan vs Angela Lee Credit: ONE Championship

Giorgio Petrosyan will rematch Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy in the main event of ONE Championship: Masters of Destiny, while Angela Lee will give the strawweight division another go.

On Friday, ONE Championship officials announced their return to Malaysia this July. ONE Championship: Masters of Destiny will take place July 12 in Kuala Lumpur’s Axiata Arena. The show will be headlined by a rematch between Giorgio Petrosyan and Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy, after the result of their ONE Super Series Featherweight Kickboxing World Grand Prix Quarter-Final bout at Enter the Dragon last month was overturned.

The result was changed to a No Contest when ONE’s Competition Committee ruled the referee did not control illegal clinching during the bout.

The real head-turner of the show, however, will be the return of ‘Unstoppable’ Angela Lee (9-1) — once again trying her hand at strawweight. The ONE atomweight champion challenged Xiong Jing Nan in an attempt to move up and claim a second title earlier this year at ONE Championship: A New Era. However, she came up short that night in Tokyo. Rather than head back to atomweight, however, Lee will take another crack at the strawweight division when she meets Michelle Nicolini (5-2) of Brazil. Nicolini last competed in November, losing to Tiffany Teo. However, she’s 3-1 overall under the ONE banner.

Officially announced for the ONE Championship: Masters of Destiny card are the following bouts:

Main Event
ONE Super Series Featherweight Kickboxing World Grand Prix Quarter Final

Giorgio Petrosyan vs Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy
ONE Super Series Kickboxing: 70.3kg

Angela Lee vs Michelle Nicolini
Mixed Martial Arts: 56.7kg

Ev Ting vs Daichi Abe
Mixed Martial Arts: 77.1kg

Abro Fernandes vs Gurdarshan Mangat
Mixed Martial Arts: 61.2kg

Jihin Radzuan vs Jomary Torres
Mixed Martial Arts: 52.2kg

Dae Sung Park vs Kimihiro Eto
Mixed Martial Arts: 77.1kg

Troy Worthen vs Chen Rui
Mixed Martial Arts: 65.8kg

Hiroki Akimoto vs Kenny Tse
ONE Super Series Kickboxing (8oz. gloves): 61.2kg

Kai Ting Chuang vs Janet Todd
ONE Super Series Kickboxing (8oz. gloves): 52.2kg

Aleksi Toivonen vs Akihiro Fujisawa
Mixed Martial Arts: 61.2kg

Saiful Merican vs Mohammed Bin Mahmoud
ONE Super Series Muay Thai (4oz. gloves): 65.8kg

Adrian Mattheis vs Liu Peng Shuai
Mixed Martial Arts: 56.7kg

George Mann vs Sorgraw Petchyindee Academy
ONE Super Series Muay Thai (4oz. gloves): 70.3kg