One
Championship
needs a placeholder for reigning 115-pound
titleholder
Angela
Lee.
Stamp
Fairtex will collide with
Seo Hee Ham
for the interim women’s atomweight championship in the
ONE on Prime Video 14 headliner this Friday at Singapore Indoor
Stadium in Kallang, Singapore. The winner figures to meet the
sidelined Lee in a unification match sometime in the
not-too-distant future. Fairtex has rattled off five victories
across her past six appearances. She last fought at ONE on Prime
Video 10, where she put away
Alyse
Anderson with a body kick in the second round of their May 5
pairing. Ham, meanwhile, enters the cage on the strength of a
career-best nine fight winning streak. The
Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran last competed on March
24, when she outpointed
Itsuki
Hirata to a unanimous decision at ONE on Prime Video 8.
As Fairtex and Ham make final preparations for their high-stakes
showdown in Southeast Asia, a look at some of the numbers that have
accompanied them to this point:
25: Years of age for Fairtex, who was born in Rayong, Thailand, on
Oct. 16, 1997.
4: Fairtex victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting
for 40% of her career total (10). Her list of victims: Anderson,
Sunisa
Srisan,
Puja Tomar
and
Rashi
Shinde. Fairtex owns two other victories by submission (20%)
and four more by decision (40%).
19: Seconds needed for Fairtex to cut down the aforementioned
Shinde with a head kick at ONE Warrior Series 2 on July 9, 2018.
More than five years later, it remains her fastest finish to
date.
6: Consecutive calendar years in which Fairtex has fought at least
once. In addition to her 1-0 mark in 2023, she went 1-0 in 2018,
2-0 in 2019, 2-0 in 2020, 3-1 in 2021 and 1-1 in 2022.
.750: Cumulative winning percentage between the two women—Lee and
Alyona
Rassohyna—who have defeated Fairtex. They boast a combined
record of 24-8.
36: Years of age for Ham, who was born on March 8, 1987 in Gumi,
South Korea.
3: Ham wins by submission, accounting for 12% of her career total
(26). Her methods of choice: two armbars and one rear-naked choke.
Ham holds four other wins by knockout or technical knockout (15%)
and 19 more by decision (73%).
2,498: Days between losses for Ham. She last tasted defeat on Nov.
26, 2016, when she wound up on the wrong side of a split decision
against ex-
King of
the Cage champion
Danielle
Taylor at UFC Fight Night 101.
75: Rounds started by Ham as a professional mixed martial artist.
The former Jewels,
Road Fighting Championship and
Rizin Fighting Federation titleholder has gone the distance on
24 different occasions and carries a 19-5 record in those
bouts.
132: Combined victories between the seven women—
Ayaka
Hamasaki (twice), Taylor,
Bec
Rawlings,
Joanne Wood,
Megumi
Fujii,
Yuka Tsuji and
Miki Matsumoto—who have beaten Ham. They sport a .759 cumulative
winning percentage at 132-42.