Namajunas of the United States (center) celebrates after defeating Weili Zhang of China during their UFC 261 women’s strawweight championship bout at VyStar Veterans Memorial Coliseum on April 24, 2021 in Jacksonville, Florida.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC 261) took place this morning at 10:00 a.m. BST, and Lithuanian-American “Thug Rose” Namajunas took the women’s 52kg title by technical knockout (TKO) over China’s first-ever champion Zhang Weili just over a minute into the fight.
The UFC’s first full house since the epidemic, with 15,000 spectators in attendance, was also Zhang Weili’s second title defense.
The first round of the fight started at 10:00 a.m. Today, Zhang Weili and Namajunas (Rose Namajunas) threw tentative punches to each other in the middle of the arena, Namajunas coldly kicked out and swept her leg to Zhang Weili’s chin, Zhang Weili fell to the ground with a sound, Namajunas immediately went forward to make up for the punches, and the referee intervened to announce the winner.
Nama Yunas of the United States celebrates after defeating Weili Zhang of China in their UFC 261 women’s strawweight title bout at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida on April 24, 2021.
It took only 1 minute and 18 seconds for Namajunas to regain the women’s 52kg title with a TKO of Zhang Weili, snapping Zhang’s 20-fight winning streak in the Octagon.
Before the fight, Namajunas had quoted the famous anti-communist slogan “Better red than dead” during the Cold War, calling for freedom, which was surrounded by Chinese netizens at the time.
But Namajunas stressed that she would not retract her comments, reiterating that she did not hate Zhang Weili and even wanted to be friends after the fight, but that she had to win because Zhang came from the same Communist Party that was in power.
The Free Times reported that former American heavyweight champion Mike Tyson said in an interview last month that he thought Zhang Wei Li’s title defense would be a disaster: “Rose (Namajunas) will destroy Zhang Wei Li!”
At the time, it was thought that the women’s strawweight (under 52kg) fight would be evenly matched, but Tyson thought that former women’s strawweight champion and fierce fighter Namajunas would have the upper hand, and even warned Zhang Weili that the abused child who grew up in the slums would dominate the fight, “Rose is so beautiful, yet so powerful, she can destroy you. “
The foreign media analyzed that although Zhang Weili has defeated some big names, but has not faced such a tough opponent in the ring like “Thug Rose”, which is undoubtedly the biggest challenge for the current champion in her career.
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