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Huaxiang “Hua Mulan” Dong (Flyweight)

24 | 5’5” | Guangxi, China | 10-2 | 7 Finishes | 1 KO/TKO, 6 Submissions | Combined Opponents’ Record: 20-16 | Best win – Feier Huang (10-4) 

Dong started off her MMA career 1-3 and hasn’t lost since, winning eight fights in a row. She’s been fighting for WLF MMA for the last four years and is their current strawweight title holder. Dong is following in the footsteps of countrywoman and UFC champion Weili Zhang. Like a lot of mixed martial artists fighting over in China, Dong is super young with a lot of experience.

The best way to describe Dong is a wrestler that is more than comfortable striking. Being as good as a wrestler as she is, Dong isn’t the type to have it be her main purpose. Dong does a great job lulling opponents with her striking until they are comfortable striking and that’s when Dong will shoot. You don’t see a lot of good wrestlers come from China and Dong possesses just that. She times level changes well and once she gets to the inside her physicality shows. Just in the clinch Dong can sling girls around and when she gets in on the hips she will elevate her opponents.