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Angela Lee on dropping down a division to challenge for inaugural ONE atomweight title

Angela Lee is dropping down a division to challenge for the first title of her pro career at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on May 6, 2016. At ONE: "Tribe of Warriors" the 19-year-old phenom will be fighting Mei Yamaguchi for the organization's inaugural atomweight title.

The winner will earn the right to call themselves the first ever female ONE Championship champion but for Lee it represents something of a step into the unknown because all her fights to date have been in the strawweight division, or even slightly higher.

By contrast Yamaguchi has been competing at atomweight for several years and recently won the Deep-Jewels title in that division, claiming the strap by way of an eight-woman tournament.