Her sister, MMA fighter Angela Lee, announced the news that Victoria had died on Dec. 26 via Instagram Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

In the wake of Victoria’s death ... “Initially, of course I didn’t want to do anything,” Lee told MMA Fighting. “I closed my gym down. I wasn’t thinking about fighting.

Lee ended his two-year sabbatical following the untimely passing of his younger sister, Victoria. The two-division MMA world ...