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.

Carlo-Clauss, who leads Bali MMA, hasn’t ruled out Xiong’s preferred method of victory, either.

Irrespective of how the bout ends, Carlo-Clauss remains supremely confident Xiong will inflict Lee’s first career defeat. He believes the shift in weight class will prove too much for Lee, the current ONE Women’s Atomweight World Champion.

Carlo-Clauss said Lee’s narrow win over Japan’s Mei Yamaguchi was proof that the Singaporean would struggle against a bigger opponent.

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