Bruno Pucci and his wife Angela Lee have done practically everything together in the lead-up to his return to the circle this weekend.
Pucci bumped up to featherweight for his return and will face Kirill Gorobets at ONE 163 on Saturday at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Though the pair have been almost inseparable these past few months, Angela Lee will have to tend to her mommy duties come fight night.
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In an interview with the South China Morning Post, 'Unstoppable' said that she won’t be in her husband's corner during the fight and that it will be the men in the Lee family who will be on guard to tend to Pucci:
“Well I’m gonna be with Ava [their daughter], and so I think my dad [Ken] and I think maybe Christian might be in the corner this time around.”
Though he won’t have his wife tending to him during rounds, Pucci will still have arguably the best father-son duo in ONE Championship helping him.
Ken guided his children Angela and Christian to the ONE women’s atomweight world title and the ONE lightweight world title, respectively.
Christian, too, will be fresh off his ONE welterweight world title fight against Kiamrian Abbasov just a few hours before at ONE on Prime Video 4.
Angela Lee glad her husband returned to featherweight
Angela Lee knows all about the difficulty of shedding the pounds to make a division’s weight limit, but she admitted that watching her husband Bruno Pucci cut weight was even harder.
The 5'11" Pucci successfully made the 145-pound bantamweight limit in his past two fights, but Lee feels that featherweight is a healthier weight class for her husband.
During the same interview with SCMP, Angela Lee said that Pucci seems to be in a more comfortable state at 155lbs compared to 145lbs:
“Definitely. When he dropped to 145 last time, he was like a skeleton because he was already so lean. For me, seeing him this now as his wife makes me feel a lot better. Of course it’s always tough, I know how it is cutting weight and we both know the struggles. But yeah, this time it’s a lot healthier so I’m glad to see that.”
Pucci did start his ONE Championship career at featherweight but cut down to bantamweight in his previous two outings.