UFC: Zhang Weili tells Joanna Jedrzejczyk ‘I’ll fight you your way’ as title defence looms
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While word around the world is that China’s Zhang “Magnum” Weili will make the first defence of her UFC strawweight title against former champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk, nothing has been declared official by the powers that be.
Yet.
That’s not to say Zhang hasn’t been pondering this possible match-up. And often.
“I have known about Joanna for a very long time, even before I was in the UFC,” Zhang said. “I have been preparing for her, and for this fight, for a long time. I know how she moves and how she fights. I always knew that one day we would meet inside the Octagon. I am preparing everything. I am ready.”
The Post caught up with Zhang this week for the first time since the 30-year-old became her country’s first UFC champ in Shenzhen back in August, and she was keen to talk Jedrzejczyk, and of what may wait on the horizon.
