
Irrespective of how the bout ends, Carlo-Clauss remains supremely confident Xiong will inflict Lee’s first career defeat. She wants to get in there and make it dirty, she wants to hit and she wants to get hit and I don’t see that same ferociousness and mentality from Angela Lee.”

We can talk about strength, speed and power and all those things, but the real reality is Jing Nan is a fighter. “It’s just an accumulation of damage and I really just don’t see Angela being able to keep up with the pace. “Like her last fight against Samara Santos, she wore her down and wore her down and finally hit her with that spin kick to the body that put her down.

We see holes in Angela’s game and we want to exploit those holes, but when you watch Jing Nan’s fights, she doesn’t necessarily have that one-punch knockout power - or at least she hasn’t displayed that in her previous fights - but what she has is a tenacity and a ferociousness that she keeps pouring it on and it keeps adding up and adding up and people wilt underneath that. “I think we’ve got to be patient and take the opportunities when they come. “I think it’s very possible (that Jing Nan will knock Lee out), but if she goes in there and hunts that knockout straight off the bat, then she might get herself in a little trouble,” Carlo-Clauss explained.

While Xiong has forecast a decisive finish of Lee in their ONE Strawweight World Title bout at ONE: A NEW ERA in Tokyo on 31 March, the Chinese World Champion’s head striking coach Don Carlo-Clauss predicts his protege will dismantle Lee with sheer pressure.Ĭarlo-Clauss, who leads Bali MMA, hasn’t ruled out Xiong’s preferred method of victory, either. But the team leading Xiong Jing Nan’s quest for greatness insists another weapon in her armoury will bring about the downfall of “Unstoppable” Angela Lee. She boasts speed, strength and knockout power.
