Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre in Shenzen, Guangdong Province played host to a historic fight card tonight featuring the first ever Chinese challenger for a UFC title. The main event pitted reigning UFC strawweight champion Jessica Andrade versus Heibei’s Weili Zhang, who was on a 19-fight winning streak.
And the streaking fighter would make it 20-fights (after just 42 seconds of work) to become the first ever UFC champion from China.
In her historic win Zhang was busy from the outset, landing leg kicks and then punches that had Andrade in trouble. Unbelievably, Zhang didn’t let up — with punches, elbows, knees — and Andrade couldn’t survive.