Former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has been among those to praise Weili Zhang after she won the strawweight title with a 42-second knockout of Jessica Andrade on Saturday.
Rowdy congratulated Zhang via Instagram, and she has not been the only high-profile name to wish the new champion well:
As Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole observed, Zhang has blown up since her historic win, in which she became the UFC's first ever Chinese champion:
Kevin IoleThe first early impact of Zhang Weili’s UFC title win: Top search on Baidu, the Google of China; Top trending topic on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.