Talks of a champion-versus-champion showdown began as soon as Xiong was enshrined as the inaugural ONE women's strawweight titleholder with a lopsided drubbing of Tiffany Teo over four years ago. 'The Panda' made sure that she would come back home to China with the women's strawweight championship wrapped around her waist by prevailing over the reigning atomweight queen in their trilogy bout that headlined ONE on Prime Video 2. History repeated itself on Saturday, October 1 (Friday, September 30 in the United States) as Xiong Jing Nan once again impeded Angela Lee from fully realizing her dream of becoming a two-division mixed martial arts (MMA) world champion. She remains undefeated in ONE Championship's strawweight division.The Chinese has now recorded seven successful defenses of her strawweight championship.Xiong Jing Nan denies Angela Lee's bid to become a two-division champion.

This time Xiong would take Tiffany to a unanimous decision which she won comfortably.

Xiong having lost her last fight came back to strawweight to defend her title against Tiffany Teo In a rematch. Xiong would open heavy to establish her striking dominance but eventually Lee came back from the early adversity to submit Xiong at the end of the fifth round. Both girls went to war and after a hard fought 4 rounds, Xiong managed to put an end to Lee's double champ aspirations as she stopped the Atomweight champion via TKO in the fifth to retain her Strawweight belt.įollowing her win against Lee, The Panda decided that a move down to challenge Lee for her Atomweight belt was in order, this time Xiong closed as the betting favorite. Xiong would close as the underdog in her bout against Lee who despite being the champion a weightclass down outsized Jingan. Jingan would defend her belt in her next two fights against Laura Balin and Samara Santos before being matched up with the Atomweight champion Angela Lee as Lee moved up to try and become a two weight world champion. Xiong would finish Tiffany by strikes halfway through the fourth round to become the inaugural ONE FC strawweight champion. Xiong would make her return to the ONE cage, a little over a month later, this time fighting Tiffany Teo, headlining ONE Championship: Kings of Courage for the Vacant Strawweight belt. Osenio survived the guillotine and Xiong made it back to her feet where she would TKO April with a little over one minute left on the clock in the first round to secure her first win with the promotion. Eventually they ended up on the ground with April in mount but Xiong had a tight guillotine locked up. The two traded strikes early before Xiong landed a good shot that prompted April to shoot, she wasn't able to secure the takedown but managed to press Jingnan against the fence where she would hold her for a little while before she managed to reverse the April and disengage from the clinch.The two would trade strikes before they ended up in the clinch again. Her first fight with the promotion would come against April Osenio at ONE Championship: Warriors of the World. She would not let this keep her down however as she would return to the ring less than 3 months later, winning her next 4 fights with the promotion before leaving Kunlun Fight to join ONE Championship in 2017.

The Panda would fall short in a unanimous decision loss to Colleen ending her undefeated run and handing her, her first defeat.

Colleen was a former SFL flyweight champion and had more than double the amount of fights as Xiong. She would then be matched up with Colleen Schneider at Kunlun Fight 26. She would win her first five MMA fights, all via finish. She would start her MMA career in 2014 under the Kunlun Fight banner. China's Jingnan 'The Panda' Xiong is a female flyweight currently competing under ONE Championships banner as their Strawweight Champion.

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