ONE Atomweight champion Angela Lee is open to a grappling match with Danielle Kelly. Last day, the BJJ phenom had expressed her interest in a grappling showdown with Lee in an interview with SCMP MMA.
“It’d be cool to have a match with her. She’s been fighting and grappling for a while and she’s a black belt as well,” Kelly said about a potential match with Lee.
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Now, Lee has responded positively to the callout and added that she would love to grapple Kelly.
"I think it's cool. They're definitely going to be capturing a whole other audience with the jiu-jitsu fans and the No-Gi grapplers. So I think that's really smart, it's a way to capture another audience,” Lee said in her interview with SCMP MMA.
Kelly made her ONE Championship debut at ONE X when she went up against Mei Yamaguchi in a submission grappling match. Kelly won the performance bonus for her outing in the match despite fighting to a draw against her Japanese counterpart.
Lee, on the other hand, had a great showing in the main event of ONE X. She went up against ONE Atomweight Grand Prix winner Stamp Fairtex at the event and secured a submission victory to cement her dominance on top of the ONE Atomweight division.
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After the fight, she had expressed her interest in fighting Seo Hee Ham as well who is coming off a win against Denice Zamboanga at ONE X.
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