5 speculative 'win-win' MMA trades

#5 Angela Lee (ONE) for Carla Esparza and Yair Rodriguez (UFC)

One Championship: Dynasty of Heroes

Undefeated in all nine of her professional fights, Angela Lee is, without doubt, one of the jewels in the crown of ONE Championship. To pry her away from the promotion would likely take something special. The atomweight champion is set to challenge for her second title, this time at strawweight, early next month and should that be successful, the proposed value of any trade would absolutely go up.

Aside from the surging Tatiana Suarez, the UFC strawweight division is lacking any legitimate threats to reigning champion Rose Namajunas and adding Lee into the mix would not only liven up a relatively shallow division, but it would also give Lee the opportunity to answer her critics who claim she has been fighting inferior competition.

To offset the loss of Lee, the UFC could send former strawweight champion Carla Esparza in the opposite direction, along with a high-end prospect like young featherweight Yair Rodriguez. Esparza was thoroughly dismantled by Suarez in her last fight and looks further away than ever from getting another shot at recapturing her 115lb title.

The opportunity to reinvent her career over at ONE Championship could be enough to tempt "The Cookie Monster" in to make the move. Rodriguez, on the other hand, has had his ups and downs with the UFC in recent months and at one time looked to be on the brink of leaving the promotion after allegedly trying to pick and choose his fights. His dynamic fighting style would fit right in with the highly entertaining ONE 145lb division and there would be no shortage of options for the 26-year-old.