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Welterweight Title Bout

“Aoriqileng is one of my favorite fighters…he’s a go-getter. He’s someone that isn’t scared of anything, and that’s great to see. I don’t know where that comes from, but wherever it is, it’s working for him.”

Those are the words of Gavin Pratt from the UFC Peformance Institute in Shanghai, China, describing one of the UFC’s newest flyweights. Singed from the UFC Academy Combine alongside Liang Na and Rongzhu, he'll join his countrymen in making their promotional debuts Saturday on the early prelims of UFC 261.

Aoriqileng At The UFC Performance Institute, Shanghai
Dean Amasinger, also of the Performance Institute, agrees, noting the arc of Aoriqileng’s improvement since he began training in the state-of-the-art facility.