Christian Lee (fighter)
Christian Lee (Chinese: 李胜龙, Korean: 이승용, born June 21, 1998) is a Canadian–American mixed martial artist of Singaporean, Chinese and Korean heritage who competes in ONE Championship. He is the former ONE Lightweight World Champion and the 2019 ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix Champion. Lee is also currently ranked #1 in the ONE lightweight rankings. On May 17, 2019, Lee defeated Shinya Aoki to win the ONE Lightweight World Championship as well as becoming the first brother-sister pair of mixed martial arts world champions with his sister Angela Lee holding the ONE Atomweight World Championship . Background. Born in Vancouver to a Chinese-Singaporean father and a South Korean-born Canadian mother, Lee moved to Hawaii when he was five years old. As both his parents are decorated martial artists, Lee started training in the sport from a young age. Lee's older sister Angela (born July 8, 1996, in Vancouver) is also an MMA fighter with ONE Championship and his two younger siblings, Victoria and Adrian (born in Waipahu), also train in martial arts. At the 2012 USA Pankration national championships, Lee won two national titles and one silver medal. He also won the World  Championship in the MMA division at the 2012 World Pangration Athlima Federation Championships. Mixed martial arts career. Lee trains out of United MMA in Waipahu, Hawaii and Evolve MMA in Singapore, alongside his teammate and sister, Angela and her husband, Bruno Pucci, who also competes in ONE Championship's bantamweight division. Lee made his amateur debut in 2015 at Star Elite Cage Fighting, where he defeated Avery Sanchis via first-round submission. ONE Championship. At the age of 17, Lee signed with ONE Championship and made his promotional debut at on December 11, 2015, earning his first career win with  a 29-second TKO of David Meak. Lee followed that up by submitting Mahmoud Deab Mohamed in the first round with a kimura at on January 29, 2016. On March 18, 2016, he earned another first-round win against Anthony Engelen at with a TKO stoppage by punches and elbow At on May 6, 2016, Lee improved to 4-0 when he submitted Cary Bullos in the opening round with a brabo choke. Lee continued his streak of first-round finishes when he stopped Rocky Batolbatol by TKO at on May 27, 2016. In his next match on August 13 , 2016, Lee suffered his first professional defeat to rising featherweight Martin Nguyen at , losing in the first-round via a guillotine choke. Lee rebounded by defeating Wan Jianping with a first-round TKO at on April 21, 2017. For the first time in his career, Lee was pushed to three rounds before finally submitting Keanu Subba with an armbar at on August 18, 2017. On December 9, 2017, at , Lee defeated former ONE Lightweight World Champion Kotetsu Boku in the first round by TKO. Lee submitted Kazunori Yokota in the second round at on March 9, 2018 to clinch his  fourth straight win. After his strong run of performances, Lee would earn a title shot against ONE Featherweight World Champion Martin Nguyen at on 18 May 2018. Following a five-round back-and-forth battle, Lee would lose by a narrow split-decision, marking his second defeat to the Vietnamese-Australian featherweight. Lee dropped another match against Filipino Edward Kelly at on September 8, 2018 after he was disqualified under the promotion's global martial art ruleset. During his takedown of Kelly, Lee was judged to have used an illegal belly-to-back suplex that caused Kelly to land on  his head and neck. He got back on the win sheet against former Pancrase Lightweight Champion Kazuki Tokudome in a 73 kg catchweight bout at on 9 November 2018, defeating the Japanese fighter in the first-round via TKO. The match was added to the card on short notice after his sister Angela Lee, who was scheduled to face Xiong Jing Nan for the ONE Strawweight Championship, was forced to pull out due to a back injury. In his anticipated rematch against Edward Kelly at on January 19, 2019, Lee stopped Kelly via first-round TKO and pushed his overall  record to 14–3. ONE Lightweight Champion. Lee agreed to an open challenge for the title from ONE Lightweight World Champion Shinya Aoki, issued in March 2019 just after Aoki had won the Lightweight title himself. Lee, a featherweight, would be moving up a division in order to challenge for the belt. On May 17, 2019, at , Lee survived an armbar submission attempt to upset the Japanese grappling legend in the second-round via TKO finish and win his first mixed martial arts world title. His victory also made him the youngest ever male mixed martial arts world champion, as well  as the first ever brother-sister pair of world champions in the history of mixed martial arts, with his sister Angela Lee holding the ONE Atomweight Championship. On September 26, 2019, ONE Championship Chairman and founder Chatri Sityodtong announced that Lee had accepted an offer to serve as a late-notice replacement for the injured Eddie Alvarez in the ONE Lightweight World Grand Prix Championship Final. The match would be against Turkish finalist Saygid Guseyn Arslanaliev at on 13 October 2019, after initial replacement Filipino fighter Edouard Folayang had trouble with visa issues. The late insertion into the event would  allow Lee to fight on the same card as his sister Angela Lee, who was defending her Atomweight title that night. Lee would go on to win by unanimous decision, earning the ONE Lightweight Word Grand Prix Championship. Lee defended his ONE Lightweight Championship against Iuri Lapicus at on October 30, 2020. After surviving an initial barrage, he won the fight in the first round by TKO via punches on the ground. Lee next defended his ONE Lightweight Championship against Timofey Nastyukhin at ONE on TNT 2 on April 14, 2021. He won the fight via TKO just over a  minute into the first round. Lee was scheduled to defend his ONE Lightweight Championship against Ok Rae Yoon at on September 24, 2021. Lee lost the fight by a unanimous decision. Due to the controversial nature of the decision, it was reviewed by the ONE Competition Committee which ultimately upheld the result. Personal life. Lee holds American and Canadian citizenship. Lee and his wife Katie are expecting their first child, due in April 2021. Lee's older sister is fellow ONE FC World Champion Angela Lee, and his younger sister Victoria Lee made her successful professional MMA debut at the  age of 16 on February 26, 2021.