Weili Zhang
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Sep 13, 2026
Jed MeshewHOST
Also, if you do this, you get more downstream success.
Jed MeshewHOST
'Cause you know what happens if Val leaves? Zhang Weili doesn't have to go back to 115.
Jed MeshewHOST
Zhang is back up to 125 and in the mix with all these other people.
Jed MeshewHOST
So we also get the same effect at 115, which is quite frankly more interesting if Zhang doesn't come back and just lord over all these other bums.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
Uh, where, where, where's the best place to hide a tree? In a forest, you know? Uh, all you...
Alexander K. LeeHOST
I- all of that.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
You know what all that was? All of that was so that your girl, Mackenzie Dern, doesn't have to fight Zhang Weili.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
I s- I was like, "Something is funny here." And then when you got to the straw division, I'm like, "Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes." She dodged a bullet.
Chael SonnenHOST
You will then usually say, "He got caught." I remember when Rose had to rematch Joanna because Rose beat her so handily, like the world couldn't accept it, and it went in that same category of Rose caught her.
Chael SonnenHOST
I remember when Rose had to rematch Weili because Rose caught her.
Chael SonnenHOST
I, I mean, the finish doesn't historically work against the rematch.
Chael SonnenHOST
It works in favor of that argument.
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Chael SonnenHOST
I'm just trying to emphasize and impress upon you, history says if you get stopped, that you got caught, it's more helpful to get a rematch.
Chael SonnenHOST
There was no justification competitively for Rose to rematch Joanna.
Chael SonnenHOST
There was no justification competitively for Rose to rematch Weili.
Chael SonnenHOST
But because it happened and ended by stoppage and it was so fast, it got chalked up to she got caught.
Cody SafticHOST
If it wasn't for the knee injuries and Patchy Mix rubbing his [laughs] bad luck on her, then she probably would be.
Paul ShaughnessyHOST
I mean, I faded her against Zhang Weili, 'cause, you know-
Cody SafticHOST
She won the first
Paul ShaughnessyHOST
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Ariel HelwaniHOST
She will get an immediate title fight upon returning.
Ariel HelwaniHOST
Valentina, who last fought in November of last year at Madison Square Garden beating Zhang Weili, no longer champ.
Ariel HelwaniHOST
They may do the gimmick where she's the champion until the fight happens, whatever.
Ariel HelwaniHOST
They're doing a title fight and it's Natalya Silva against Wang Kong.
TonyHOST
Her strategy depends partly on producing local stars capable of attracting mainstream audiences.
TonyHOST
Zhang Weili provided an important breakthrough in 2019 when she became the UFC's first Chinese champion.
TonyHOST
Cheng compared her influence to former NBA player Yao Ming, whose success helped to transform basketball's popularity in China.
TonyHOST
Song could become another crucial figure.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
It's like, yeah, check, check.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
Zhang Weili all over again.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
I don't know.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
I just on paper, I doubt it.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
by the way.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
She can really put together a championship run, especially if Zhang Weili doesn't come back.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
Or even better, Zhang comes back, she beats Zhang, and then she goes on this run and fights the Suarez's and the Gomez's.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
I think she just has to fight Tanara.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
It's okay.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
They'll have other chances to get that number one contender spot.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
But I'd like to establish that now, especially since we're assuming Zhang Weili comes back.
Alexander K. LeeHOST
And again, you can make a case that Tatiana maybe gets one more win and she's the shot instead.
Gorgeous GeorgeHOST
This is huge for Denise Gomez.
Gorgeous GeorgeHOST
Problem is, there's another Chinese athlete named Zhang Weili.
Gorgeous GeorgeHOST
And Zhang Weili is an enigma.
Gorgeous GeorgeHOST
She doesn't fight often.
Gorgeous GeorgeHOST
She's beloved.
Gorgeous GeorgeHOST
She's out of Dana White Contender Series.
GozeHOST
I
Gorgeous GeorgeHOST
could see her possibly getting thrust in there, but I still think Suarez or Zhang Weili are in the lead.
speaker_0HOST
And while she may not have been on anyone's radar per se, even though she was on a four-fight win streak, now she is on everyone's radar, including all of the strawweight top contenders and maybe even the damn champion Mackenzie Dern.
speaker_0HOST
And while I think that an absolutely insane matchup for Denise Gomes next would be against Zhang Weili in what would be a second opportunity to knock out a Chinese woman, and this time the most successful that they had had and the former two-time champion with multiple title defenses, and would solidify herself as public enemy number one of the entire nation of China.
speaker_0HOST
I'm not going to necessarily pull the trigger on that decision because if Zhang Weili does decide to return to fighting and specifically to the strawweight division, I would like to see her take on Mackenzie Dern in a title fight because Weili never lost her title.
speaker_0HOST
She vacated it to try and chase greatness at flyweight.
speaker_0HOST
So instead of matchmaking that, I'm instead going to put Denise Gomes up against another former title challenger and that is Veerna Janjadoba, who competed against McKenzie Dern in the vacant spot last October, a 25-minute absolute war, one of the best strawweight fights of all time, where she would lose a very close fight.
speaker_0HOST
We have now Gomes, Klein, and Tynar, the young up-and-comers.
speaker_0HOST
surging up the rankings and we still have a perfect mix of older veterans and in-betweeners as well in the top 15.
speaker_0HOST
Strawweight is in a very safe spot right now and especially if Zhang Weili decides to make her return as well.
Aljamain SterlingHOST
You have Fatima Klein, Mackenzie Dern, right? And Jillian Robertson.
Aljamain SterlingHOST
And you also have Zhang Weili, who's also coming back to the weight class.
Aljamain SterlingHOST
So there's some good blood there, some good matchups that they can make.
Aljamain SterlingHOST
And what was the other girl that got the finish?
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