Angela Lee won her first championship belt in mixed martial arts as an amateur in Hawaii.

Nearly 7,000 miles away in Singapore on Friday, she will attempt to trade in the pink-colored DestinyMMA title for the real thing.

The Mililani High alumna, who has taken Asia by storm since making her professional debut a year ago, will compete for the inaugural women’s world atomweight championship against Mei Yamaguchi in the main event of ONE Championship: Ascent to Power at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.

The event will begin at 1 a.m. Friday and will be available online at oneppv.com for $9.99.

“It was always my goal from the start to get that title shot,” said Lee, who only graduated from high school two years ago. “Two aggressive fighters who make for a great fight.”

A 2013 state wrestling champion for the Trojans, Lee has exchanged a singlet for a pair of 4-ounce MMA gloves as she pursues a world title at just 19 years old.

She has become the Ronda Rousey of ONE Championship, dominating her first five opponents.

All five fights were won by submission and ended in fewer than two rounds. One of her victories came via a ‘twister’ submission technique that is rarely seen in MMA. It was the moment that a new star of women’s MMA was born.

“It’s been a whirlwind. I made my debut a year ago and 365 days later pretty much to the date I’m competing again but this time instead of a debut I am competing for a world title,” said Lee, who is now a recognized celebrity in Asia. “It’s crazy.”

Her quick rise helped force ONE Championship to hold its first world title fight in a women’s division. The atomweight belt will be contested for fighters ranging from 115 to 125 pounds.

The bout was scheduled to be the co-main event but now holds top billing after the main event was called off due to injury for one of the fighters. It’s the first time ONE Championship has had a women’s fight hold main-event status.

“When I first got signed, all I was thinking about was becoming world champion,” Lee said. “When I found out ONE Championship didn’t even have a world champion yet I was blown away. I was like, ‘OK, I’ve got to be the first.’”

Lee, whose younger brother, Christian, faces Cary Bullos on the undercard Friday, was born into a martial arts family.

Her parents, father Ken and mother Jewelz, trained in taekwondo and eventually branched out to start their own self-defense forum called Total Defense System.

It was created in Vancouver, Canada, where Angela was born as the first of four children.

The family moved to Hawaii, where Ken went to high school, when Angela was 7 and they eventually opened their own gym called UnitedMMA.

Lee was learning self-defense techniques from the moment she was born and eventually that discipline led toward a career in mixed martial arts.

“Our family always tuned in to watch fights, whether it was boxing, wrestling, MMA, and of course I always wanted to compete even though it never really clicked in my head that not a lot of girls were doing it,” Lee said. “I’m so happy now that (MMA) is so really, really mainstream, especially with Ronda Rousey introducing women’s MMA and I’m hoping to promote MMA in Asia and the Asian scene because it’s so much more behind there than here in North America.”

Lee can be that trailblazer for women’s MMA in Asia but must first pass her biggest test yet.

Yamaguchi has fought professionally since 2007 and was signed by ONE Championship specifically to fight Lee for its world title.

Her last three fights were in an organization called Deep Jewels in which she holds its world featherweight championship.

“She’d been doing this for quite a while and has a lot of experience on me,” Lee said. “I’m really excited for this fight because she’s never been finished before and all of my fights are by finishes so I think it makes for a really interesting matchup.”