Can Weili Zhang pull off the upset?

[nick jacoby]

Do you smell an upset here? It feels like it. Watching some of her highlights and she is definitely an incredible fighter. Andrade is just such a little pitbull though. Although against lesser competition for the most part...she has shown that she is a finisher. (19 Wins- 9 Knockouts, 7 Submissions and 3 Decisions)
with only 1 blemish on her record, which came in the form of a decision loss in the first fight of her career.

EDIT- It would obviously be an upset to most of us here on Sherdog and in the MMA community as a whole...But the majority of the oddsmakers have Jessica Andrade at around (-180) and Weili Zhang hovering around (+150)....which seems alot closer to 50/50 than I would have guessed.

 

[nick jacoby]

 

[Guy LeDouche]

I actually think Zhang has a really good shot in this fight. I don’t think people are paying attention to how good she is.

 

[Ube]

It’s mma. Anything can happen.

I feel she’s gonna get overpowered though.

 

[nick jacoby]

It’s mma. Anything can happen.

I feel she’s gonna get overpowered though.

My money would definitely be on Andrade but I wouldn't be terribly surprised by an upset.

 

[Satan's Daddy.]

Well if she don't start bear hugging like Rose Namujanas.. She might stand a pretty good chance either by KO or decision.

 

[ChinaMMABlog]

Zhang Weili will win on Saturday. Five-round decision.

WAR China!

 

[nick jacoby]

Well if she don't start bear hugging like Rose Namujanas.. She might stand a pretty good chance either by KO or decision.

Fight still leaves a bad taste in my mouth/memory. Rose was and is still IMO clearly the more well rounded, skilled fighter... and watching the fight back just last week Rose put on a beautiful round 1 and didn't stick with the same strategy. Don't know if it was a mental lapse or what not or Andrade getting to her with the leg kicks and inside punches... But clinching with her doesn't seem smart given her history of slamming her opponents. Easy for me to say in hindsight now but still.

 

[Garnet_StrongerThanYou]

Weilin Zhang will kick her ass

 

[Paulsp]

Andrade will maul her

4th round tko

 

[Garnet_StrongerThanYou]

No. I don't get the hype at all. She smashed people outside of the UFC, whoopdedoo. Seems like another case of yellow fever IMO

She’s not sexy just a good fighter.

 

[Mr_Rousey]

Weili will destroy Jeffrey!!1

 

[Organic Damage]

People act like nobody has ever played matador to Andrade's bull successfully before.

Zhang seems to have extremely good footwork and distance management, and she's fast. Andrade could definitely catch her but I wouldn't put money on this fight.

 

[leto1776]

While I picked Andrade, I’m actually 50/50 on this. Most of Zhang’s doubters are just contrarians.

 

[AKA_Steve_B]

footwork * head movement *

 

[kuka45]

People act like nobody has ever played matador to Andrade's bull successfully before.

Zhang seems to have extremely good footwork and distance management, and she's fast. Andrade could definitely catch her but I wouldn't put money on this fight.

Zhang has very poor defensive, good footwork and distance management maybe won't be enough when all girls she faced in UFC were able to land on her decent amount of punches and Andrade can punch really hard. Andrade is one of few fighters in this division who can be anvil and hammer and I think Zhang can only be hammer (lacking some qualities to do good vs dangerous pressure fighter). Maybe she will have chance in clinch - really hard to say who is stronger fighter here, and Andrade is not really amazing clincher.

 

[cauti0n]

Fight still leaves a bad taste in my mouth/memory. Rose was and is still IMO clearly the more well rounded, skilled fighter... and watching the fight back just last week Rose put on a beautiful round 1 and didn't stick with the same strategy. Don't know if it was a mental lapse or what not or Andrade getting to her with the leg kicks and inside punches... But clinching with her doesn't seem smart given her history of slamming her opponents. Easy for me to say in hindsight now but still.

She's not more "well rounded", she just had faster hands.

Meanwhile she got her legs kicked out and wrestlefucked to a slam KO.

 

[FlyingDeathKick]

I actually think Zhang has a really good shot in this fight. I don’t think people are paying attention to how good she is.

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/jessica-andrade-vs-weili-zhang-targeted-for-ufc-china.3970357/
She's actually the favorite to win on here.

 

[Satan's Daddy.]

Fight still leaves a bad taste in my mouth/memory. Rose was and is still IMO clearly the more well rounded, skilled fighter... and watching the fight back just last week Rose put on a beautiful round 1 and didn't stick with the same strategy. Don't know if it was a mental lapse or what not or Andrade getting to her with the leg kicks and inside punches... But clinching with her doesn't seem smart given her history of slamming her opponents. Easy for me to say in hindsight now but still.

She was shooting when she shouldn't of been, and kept doing the same thing, knowingly that she got slammed before when she was hand fighting her in similar positions.. A fighter is suppose too adapt.. and when you're about too get slammed.. Common sense is ALWAYS protect your head.

 

[null]

While I picked Andrade, I’m actually 50/50 on this. Most of Zhang’s doubters are just contrarians.

Come on, Zhang is a rightful underdog in this bout. She took tiny little blown up atomweight Danielle Taylor to a decision and even got dropped by her in the process. Then submitted way past her prime Jessica Aguilar. Her most recent victory in perennial contender Tecia Torres is the first decent win in the UFC, by decision, and that doesn't even look that good since Tecia just got defeated by a relative newcomer in Marina Rodriguez. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that Jessica Andrade would violently finish or dominantly defeat all the opponents that Zhang beat in her brief UFC run so far? This is a very big step up for Zhang.