ONE Championship will return to Kuala Lumpur this summer, the promotion announced Friday.
“ONE Championship 98: Masters of Destiny” has a kickboxing headliner in the promotion’s Super Series. But on the MMA side of things, ONE women’s atomweight champion Angela Lee (9-1) will again try her hand at strawweight when she takes on Michelle Nicolini (5-2).
ONE Championship 98 takes place July 12 at Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The card streams on B/R Live.
Lee suffered the first loss of her pro career in March when she moved up 10 pounds to challenge Xiong Jingnan for the ONE strawweight title. Jingnan stopped her with a TKO in the fifth round. Prior to that, Lee was a perfect 9-0 in her career, all under the ONE banner, including wins in four straight atomweight title fights.
Nicolini, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu standout, had a three-fight winning streak of submissions snapped when she dropped a unanimous decision to Tiffany Teo this past November. It was her first loss under the ONE banner.
The ONE Championship 98 lineup includes:
- Angela Lee vs. Michelle Nicolini
- Daichi Abe vs. Ev Ting
- Abro Fernandes vs. Gary Mangat
- Jihin Radzuan vs. Jomary Torres
- Kimihiro Eto vs. Dae Sung Park
- Rui Chen vs. Troy Worthen
- Akihiro Fujisawa vs. Aleksi Toivonen
- Adrian Mattheis vs. Liu Peng Shuai
For more on ONE Championship 98, check out the MMA Rumors section of the site.
