{"id":181616,"date":"2023-01-09T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T13:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/victoria-lee-rising-mma-star-dies-at-18\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T13:32:02","slug":"victoria-lee-rising-mma-star-dies-at-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/victoria-lee-rising-mma-star-dies-at-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Lee: Rising MMA star dies at 18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Victoria Lee, one of the brightest new stars in mixed martial arts (MMA), has died at the age of 18, her sister confirmed.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cShe has gone too soon and our family has been completely devastated since then,\u201d her sister Angela said in an Instagram post Saturday.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe miss her. More than anything in this world. Our family will never be the same. Life will never be the same.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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Lee was born and raised in Hawaii and had started rising through the ranks of the sport.\n <\/p>\n

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She won three fights in her short career, most recently in September 2021 against Victoria Souza.\n <\/p>\n

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She put fighting on the back burner last year as she focused on graduating from high school.\n <\/p>\n

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In her Instagram post, Angela said her sister had died on December 26 but did not say how.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe miss you so much fog. More than you could ever realize. We’re all broken,\u201d Angela added.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cBecause a piece of you was in each of us and when you left, those pieces were ripped out of us. We will never be the same.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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Lee came from a family with a rich history in the sport \u2013 her sister and brother, Christian, are both ONE world champions.\n <\/p>\n

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‘The Prodigy,’ as she had become known, had previously told MMA Fighting that her siblings were her biggest inspiration.\n <\/p>\n

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The ONE Championship, a promotion that Lee fought in, said it was \u201cdevastated\u201d about the news.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cI am heartbroken by Victoria Lee’s passing. I first met Victoria when she was 11 years old. I watched her blossom over the years as a martial artist and a human being, \u201dONE Championship Chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong said in a Facebook post.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cI always remember thinking how wise, thoughtful, and selfless she was beyond every years.\n <\/p>\n

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\u201cOf course, she was an extraordinary martial arts prodigy even back then, but I could see that she was so much more than that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n