Back in April Zhang Weili lost for the first time in her UFC career. The defeat came via a stunning KO finish from Rose Namajunas and it cost ‘Magnum’ her UFC strawweight title.
The 32-year-old’s coach has stated that a hostile crowd, packed into Jacksonville’s VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena—the first live UFC crowd since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, had distracted Zhang and knocked her off of her game.
In My Bronze Age, a documentary that recently aired on Tencent QQ in China, Zhang revealed that there were a few other distractions that hindered her ability to fight to her full potential that night.