Because of the Coronavirus crisis, strawweight champion Weili Zhang was forced to move her UFC 248 training camp from China to Las Vegas. But her journey to the United States was not an easy one, to say the least.
In a recent sit-down with ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, “Magnum” detailed the obstacles she had to go through, which entailed spending some of her days in two different countries.
“I had a US visa appointment on February 3 in Beijing and was waiting for that,” Zhang recounted (via BJPenn.com). “Then, on the early morning of Feb 1, I got the news that flights between the US and China had been suspended.