Lee wants to be someone people talk about

Andrea Lee poses for photographers during Ultimate Media Day on May 17, 2018 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Zuffa LLC)It wasn’t the scenario Andrea Lee had planned out, but now that a short-notice UFC debut was on her doorstep last fall, she wasn’t about to turn it down. Fresh from a September 22 win over Jamie Thorton, “KGB” Lee was going to be a UFC fighter facing Kalindra Faria at UFC 216 in Las Vegas on October 7.

“I’m in shape,” she told me that week. “I just need to cut my weight again. I could wait until December and have a whole other camp to go through and it will be on my mind. Or I could just jump in with both feet and just do it and be done for the rest of the year…