It seems like people who are picking Zhang are doing based on nothing in particular. Training videos perhaps? Do any of you have any specific sequences that you envision?
Lol @ having miesha or holly above Joanna who had 5 defenses
joanna will dominate her using distance and kickbox her to a decision. it will be decisive.
zhang's only shot is a flash KO which is unlikely given joanna's experience. waterson had a decent attempt at a submission that joanna defended quite well so don't think zhang will submit her (waterson though obviously weaker than zhang is much better at BJJ). zhang isn't that strong either as she got reversed by tecia on the ground and wasn't able to do much from top position in their fight so no chance she dominates a stronger opponent.
zhang won't be able to find range for most of the fight and will panic in the later rounds as well as get tired out. also i think joanna does some gamesmanship with coronavirus memes closer to the fight to get zhang's emotions up. zhang seems like a mess having to move her training camp twice and needs her mommy comforting her close to fight which shows a huge lack of confidence. Remember its only cause of Dana's desire to have the China market that zhang even got a title shot. She was definitely a few fights away from getting one (beating atomweight tecia is not worthy of a title shot lol).
They conveniently forget she went to decision against a 5ft midget not that long ago.
Why?Bet the house on who ever Thompson picks.
I honestly don't know who wins, but idk how everyone's calling Zhang the sw goat all of a sudden. Okay, she beat up a girl whose only asset is power. Joanna did the same thing. What else has Zhang done? She has a boring decision win over Torres, and has two other UFC wins over girls who got cut from the organization. The point is that she has one remarkable performance in the promotion. Joanna's far more technical and elusive than anyone the girl has ever faced.
Zhang looks good but everyone is out here acting like she's some KO artist because she beat Andrade. They conveniently forget she went to decision against a 5ft midget not that long ago.