2022 proved to be everything and more for strawweight Zhang Weili, as she secured back-to-back victories over former champs …
yuan is constantly [Applause] match I think she’s tremendous I think she is the best the best athlete in the female fighting across the board she can do just about everything and you can watch her explosiveness you can watch the way that she attacks the game and look at her work that is where it shows preparing to return to the Octagon for the first time since March of 2020 yawana yunjaychek went through the toughest training camp of her entire career in fact she shared with me this week that many of people around her wanted her to actually scale back on the intensity I have legitimate Main Event anxiousness right now feels like a belt is on the line it is not of course Cola Esparza is the champion but whoever wins this rematch between the former Champs joining check and John Wayne Lee is going to factor prominently in any title fight equations moving forward [Applause] we love these two ladies in a cave only one thing is gonna happen and that’s this right where we left off UFC 275 so you want to pressures take a look again a little over committal spins here it is boom look at that on the karate don’t do it on the jaw the whole forearm lands with a tremendous amount of power straw weight Queen goes down this is the way she walks in New York zhangwei Lee made her UFC debut back in 2018 at UFC 227 there was a significant amount of hype then and she has certainly lived up to it and then some well she’s got the best deadpan in the game and the best wrestling in the UFC strawweight division enter the champion Carla Esparza 15th UFC appearance she has won six consecutive fights first goals would be like let’s fight [Applause] she’s trying to at least but Carla’s got to keep that foot she cannot let way these hits get up really rotated around the big elbows by wayli she’s got the reverse oh my goodness oh Haley reverses itself oh my goodness all right foreign look at the scrambles well he’s trying to set up our bar oh the striking difference it’s massive massive there’s the shot though oh my goodness she got out oh but she put herself back in position yes because she’s trying to get a submission she forced her hips and now Carlo’s going to reverse his position right she’s allowing oh my goodness oh she’s got the neck she’s got a crucifix here Carl’s got to just keep fighting that hand that left hand is she’s fine [Applause] she won’t be able to choke her here but now she’s gonna she’s got it now she’s got it [Applause] regained the show a title here guys you see jean-waley defend the takedown she floats her hips beautifully she actually makes a mistake here she tried to rush to the backside and fed her hips back to Carla now here when she’s in this crucifix Carla’s holding see how Carl is holding Whaley’s left hand not allowing her to go choke with that hand no joke here but the moment Whaley clears the left hand see I said she can’t choked her here Carla’s comfortable she’s calm but watch Whaley’s left hand the moment Carla let’s go it’s over now she got her hand locked she’s got her other arm trapped and she’s got the choke there’s no way to defend