ONE Championship Fight Night 14: Stamp Fairtex and Ham Seo-hee wish Angela Lee well ahead of interim MMA title bout

Name: Stamp Fairtex previews Ham Seo Hee title fight, talks emotional meeting with Angela Lee
Uploaded: 2023-09-28T03:03:00.000Z
Description: Stamp Fairtex previews Ham Seo Hee title fight, talks emotional meeting with Angela Lee

Lee, ONE’s undisputed atomweight champion, has not fought since her sister Victoria took her own life in December of last year

Stamp and Ham will battle for interim gold at Saturday event in Singapore, and have undisputed champ in their thoughts in the lead-up

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Ham Seo-hee (left) and Stamp Fairtex will fight for ONE Championship’s interim atomweight MMA title at ONE Fight Night 14 on Saturday, Sept. 30 Singapore. Photo: ONE Championship.

Tom Taylor

Published: 11:03am, 28 Sep 2023

It will be Stamp Fairtex and Ham Seo-hee’s names on the marquee at this Saturday’s ONE Championship Fight Night 14 event in Singapore, but ahead of the event, many eyes are locked on Angela Lee.

Lee, ONE’s undisputed atomweight MMA champion, has been out of action since her sister Victoria, also a ONE fighter, took her own life last December. The champion’s fighting future has been uncertain since that tragedy, which is what led ONE to book an interim atomweight title fight between Thailand’s Stamp (10-2) and South Korean Ham (26-8).

The two atomweights are focused on their imminent title fight, but both also have Lee in their thoughts, particularly after the undisputed champion’s recent confession that she tried to take her own life in 2017.

Stamp Fairtex previews Ham Seo Hee title fight, talks emotional meeting with Angela Lee

“What the audience sees of the fighters on TV is a small part of what they go through behind the scenes,” Ham, 36, told the Post in Singapore. “Every person has their own struggles. When I read the new about Angela Lee and the tragedy of what happened with her family, I felt sadness. I feel for her a lot.”

The 26-year-old Stamp was submitted by Lee in a 2022 title fight. Despite sharing the ONE Circle, they have a close relationship, and this week in Singapore, crossed paths for the first time since Victoria’s death.