first-round submission victory<\/a>.<\/p>\nHis promotional debut against Antonio Mammarella set the tone immediately. Lee dominated from the opening bell, finishing via submission in the second round to announce his arrival.<\/p>\n
The victories kept coming. He choked out Nico Cornejo in less than a round at ONE 168: Denver, then needed just 63 seconds to submit Takeharu Ogawa with an anaconda choke at ONE 172.<\/p>\n
That momentum crashed against Tye Ruotolo this past September. The grappling world champion caught Lee with a rear-naked choke in the second round at ONE Fight Night 35, handing him his first professional defeat.<\/p>\n
The setback stung for a fighter carrying the weight of his family\u2019s legacy. His older brother Christian holds two world titles in ONE Championship, while his sister Angela retired as atomweight queen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Shozo Isojima suffered similar fate against Tye Ruotolo<\/p>\n
Shozo Isojima walked the same painful path just weeks after Lee\u2019s loss. The 28-year-old Japanese sensation fell to Ruotolo via rear-naked choke at ONE 173 in November, ending his own undefeated start.<\/p>\n
That defeat came on the heels of an impressive promotional debut. Isojima earned a $50,000 performance bonus for his decisive victory over Nicolas Vigna, announcing himself as a legitimate lightweight threat.<\/p>\n
The matchup was originally scheduled for ONE 172 in March before Isojima\u2019s injury forced a postponement. The delay gave both fighters time to process their defeats and prepare for what\u2019s now become a redemption fight.<\/p>\n
For Lee, victory would prove his three-fight winning streak wasn\u2019t beginner\u2019s luck but the foundation of a championship trajectory. A win validates his place among the division\u2019s rising stars despite the family name.<\/p>\n
Isojima sees this differently. Defeating a member of the legendary Lee family would elevate his 6-1 record and establish him as a contender in one of MMA\u2019s most competitive divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrian Lee\u2019s perfect start hit a wall in September. The Hawaiian phenom gets his chance to bounce back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[55549,49,48,641,638,1865,153579,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-354659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-adrian-lee","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-one-championship","14":"tag-one-fight-night-40","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}