Over a month after the demise of blended martial arts (MMA) fighter Victoria Lee, elder sister Angela paid a touching tribute to her 18-year-old sibling in an Instagram publish on Monday.
One Championship atomweight world champions Angela wrote: “Typically in life there are losses. Losses that may by no means actually get replaced.
“Shedding you has been the toughest factor I’ve ever needed to stay with. I wasn’t able to say goodbye. I wasn’t able to allow you to go away. I’d give something for only one extra day, only one extra second.”
Victoria’s demise in Hawaii on Boxing Day was introduced by Angela on Jan 7 – the reason for demise was not acknowledged.
Touted as one of the vital promising MMA athletes on the earth, the 18-year-old made her debut at One’s Fists of Fury occasion on the Singapore Indoor Stadium in February 2021. The atomweight fighter had been scheduled to struggle India’s Zeba Bano on the One Battle Night time 6 on Jan 14, and the bout was cancelled after information of her demise.
Her household have additionally since closed their United MMA Hawaii Fitness center in Waipahu. The outfit was arrange in 2013 by mother and father, Singaporean Ken and his South Korean-Canadian spouse Jewelz, to groom MMA athletes and supplied lessons for adults and youngsters in MMA and Brazilian jiu-jitusu.
All their youngsters – Angela, Christian, Victoria and Adrian – additionally skilled there. Other than Adrian, the others went on to struggle in Singapore-based MMA outfit One Championship.
Information of Victoria’s demise shocked many within the fraternity as tributes poured in for {the teenager}. One Championship additionally on Jan 13 launched a highlights movies to honour her life and legacy.
Sharing in her publish that “love by no means dies”, Angela added: “Regardless that you’re not bodily right here, your coronary heart is — it lives on inside me. I carry your coronary heart inside mine… I carry it on days when magnificence unfolds in probably the most surprising locations. I carry it on days after I discover braveness to heal and to develop. I carry it with me — at all times.
“Sometime we are going to meet once more… However till that day, I’ll discover consolation in realizing that you’re nonetheless with me. Your coronary heart safely tucked inside mine.
“Endlessly in my coronary heart. I’ll carry you.”
This text was first revealed in The Straits Occasions.
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