Victoria Lee, one of the brightest new stars in mixed martial arts (MMA), has died at the age of 18, her sister confirmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has gone too soon and our family has been completely devastated since then,\u201d her sister Angela said in an Instagram post Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe miss her. More than anything in this world. Our family will never be the same. Life will never be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee was born and raised in Hawaii and had started rising through the ranks of the sport.<\/p>\n
She won three fights in her short career, most recently in September 2021 against Victoria Souza.<\/p>\n
She put fighting on the back burner last year as she focused on graduating from high school.<\/p>\n
In her Instagram post, Angela said her sister had died on December 26 but did not say how.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe miss you so much sis. More than you could ever realize. We\u2019re all broken,\u201d Angela added.<\/p>\n
\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<\/p>\n
Lee came from a family with a rich history in the sport \u2013 her sister and brother, Christian, are both ONE world champions.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Prodigy,\u2019 as she had become known, had previously told MMA Fighting that her siblings were her biggest inspiration.<\/p>\n
The ONE Championship, a promotion that Lee fought in, said it was \u201cdevastated\u201d about the news.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am heartbroken by Victoria Lee\u2019s 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,\u201d ONE Championship Chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always remember thinking how wise, thoughtful, and selfless she was beyond her years.<\/p>\n
\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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Victoria Lee, one of the brightest new stars in mixed martial arts (MMA), has died at the age of 18, her sister confirmed. \u201cShe has gone too soon and our family has been completely devastated since then,\u201d her sister Angela said in an Instagram post Saturday. \u201cWe miss her. More than anything in this world. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}