Fighters don’t just get hurt—they break, bleed, and sometimes keep fighting through injuries that would put most people in the hospital for months. UFC injuries often involve bones snapping in half, ...

Jason Parillo welcomes Zhang Weili as Mackenzie Dern's first title defense. Dern (16-5 MMA, 11-5 UFC) claimed the vacant strawweight title by defeating Virna Jandiroba at UFC 321 last month. The ...

The UFC strawweight champion would be happy to welcome Zhang Weili back to the division. China’s leading star in mixed martial arts has arrived at a crossroads after falling short in her bid to become ...

If Zhang Weili does return to 115 pounds after UFC 322, her pool of potential opponents may have just gotten thinner. The strawweight division has experienced somewhat of a collapse in recent years ...

The strawweight GOAT has arrived at a crossroads. At UFC 322, Zhang Weili fell short of following in Amanda Nunes’ footsteps and becoming only the second woman in history to become a two-division ...

Valentina Shevchenko fought who many hypothesized would be her toughest test in years, but she made Zhang Weili look just like any other opponent. Over the course of five rounds Saturday at UFC 322, ...

Zhang Weili came up short in her pursuit of history at UFC 322. Weili vacated the strawweight championship in an attempt to move up and capture flyweight gold against legendary champion Valentina ...

Zhang Weili simply had no answer for Valentina Shevchenko. Like Joe Rogan rightly pointed out in the UFC 322 Octagon interview, she was the one touted as the challenger to finally dethrone the Kyrgyz ...

Size mattered in a clash of women’s MMA greats. Valentina Shevchenko thwarted Zhang Weili’s attempt at becoming the second female fighter to win UFC titles in two weight classes, defending the ...

Zhang Weili vacated her strawweight title to chase a second belt at flyweight, facing Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 322 in Madison Square Garden. The move up in weight didn’t go as planned, given that ...

Valentina Shevchenko comfortably outpointed Weili Zhang as the pair of dominant champions finally defied weights and did battle at Madison Square Garden. For years, Zhang dominated the strawweight ...