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Can Weili Zhang pull off the upset?

Organic Damage said:
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.
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Your point is valid, but we've never seen Weili play the matador. She is always the bull (as well) and always using her power to break down her opponents. If Weili can keep Jessica on the end of her kicks, she could piece her up early and maybe take the aggressiveness out of Andrade. But, I can't really envision that. Instead, I think they'll will go right at each other - like a "phone booth fight" - and in that case, I give Andrade the edge. I think Andrade will take her down (or knock her down) and the beat her until the fight is stopped. That being said, I think Weili has a better shot at winning than Rose had.

Jarl
 
JarlSkuld said:
Your point is valid, but we've never seen Weili play the matador. She is always the bull (as well) and always using her power to break down her opponents. If Weili can keep Jessica on the end of her kicks, she could piece her up early and maybe take the aggressiveness out of Andrade. But, I can't really envision that. Instead, I think they'll will go right at each other - like a "phone booth fight" - and in that case, I give Andrade the edge. I think Andrade will take her down (or knock her down) and the beat her until the fight is stopped. That being said, I think Weili has a better shot at winning than Rose had.

Jarl
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At least no one should be expecting a boring fight.
 
Absolutely. I think she gets a finish too.
 
Sohei said:
Does Zhang have a TMA or kung-fu background? Its seems like it when she fights.
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She said in a recent interview that she had only seen Kung Fu on TV and not in person.
Her background is Sanda and BJJ.
 
Sausage_Carius said:
You can't have it both ways.

You guys argued and called me names months ago that having a bad look during weigh-ins has no correlation to bad weight cuts. So which is it.

Joanna also never missed weight. She has had bad weight cuts long before Rose knocked her out.

Tatiana has had bad weight cuts and complained even in the Carla fight that she felt cloudy and had to fight through it.

Neither one missed weight. We can go on.

Making weight has no correlation with not having a bad weight cut. It's a silly argument on its face. So of course you would argue it just to throw something in my face.

Why don't you act your age for once in your life and argue/debate in good faith. Oh right. You don't give a shit.
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That’s a whole out of words completely lacking in substance, and makes no defense for you saying Andrade is having increasingly harder weight cuts, with absolutely nothing to back it up, proving that, once again, you were talking out of your ass.
 
leto1776 said:
That’s a whole out of words completely lacking in substance, and makes no defense for you saying Andrade is having increasingly harder weight cuts, with absolutely nothing to back it up, proving that, once again, you were talking out of your ass.
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I don't know maybe the video of her barely making weight despite losing mass for her fight with Rose.

I don't know why I ever bother to extend an olive branch. All you do is take a steaming pile of shit on it. But what else can one expect from people like you.
 
Zhang's a good fighter.
 
It's MMA and Zhang is a competent fighter. Of course it's possible.
 
Sausage_Carius said:
I don't know maybe the video of her barely making weight despite losing mass for her fight with Rose.

I don't know why I ever bother to extend an olive branch. All you do is take a steaming pile of shit on it. But what else can one expect from people like you.
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So a half pound under is barely making weight? It’s like you forget how the internet works, because I literally said earlier (and you quoted the post), that she was 114.5 for both of her title fights.
 
drbolony said:
Zhang's a good fighter.
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But is she a great fighter? I see her as a worse version of Joanna so even if she beats Andrade I am not sure she can keep the belt for long from Joanna and Rose. Plus others like Suarez.
 
I think its pretty much 50/50. people already forgot how Andrade got lit up before getting that slam?
 
nick jacoby said:
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.
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Rose doesn't have the cardio to keep up that style that she implemented in round one. Also, I hate to break it to sherdog, but the more well rounded fighter doesn't mean they're the better fighter.

On topic, though, Zhang has a solid chance to win this fight. I'm 50/50 about this one.
 
I'd say Andrade is the underdog.

Did everyone forget how Joanna absolutely bodied her? 50-44 on one judges card.
 
I don't like this matchup for Zhang. She "fights" instead of coming in with a gameplan. I think the correct fight against Jessica is to fight her technically instead of butting heads with her. Zhang does have a size advantage and she seems strong unlike Rose.
 
Sohei said:
Sanda is Chinese kickboxing so I think its more TMA based.
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Sanda is kinda weird. It actually has Sambo influence. Imagine communist takeover and purge. Many TMA folks fled or died. Russians came in to teach some Sambo to military then chinese add their own thing to it.
 
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