After he captured a second ONE Championship title, Christian Lee wants to go after the UFC’s best. Lee (17-4), ONE Championship’s lightweight title holder, had a comeback for the ages when he rallied to TKO Kiamrian Abbasov to capture the welterweight title in the main event of ONE on Prime Video 4 at Singapore Indoor Stadium. Now a dual-champion, Lee wants to challenge himself by going against dominant UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev (23-1). “I saw a recent video where a fellow competitor over in the UFC, Islam Makhachev, called me out,” Lee said at his post-fight news conference. “He’s inviting me over to the UFC to fight him for his lightweight title.

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Christian Lee wants crossover fight with Islam Makhachev: ‘We’ll see who’s the real best lightweight’ – MMA Junkie

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