Sydney – UFC strawweight champion Weili Zhang is looking to make some more history following her win over Tatiana Suarez at UFC 312 on Saturday night.
That ‘history’ just happens to involved a second belt currently held by flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko.
“Everything is about timing so if there’s a good time for both of us to make this fight happen, it happens,” Weili told reporters including Cageside Press through a translator at her post-fight scrum.
“To be honest I don’t really care about like who is pound-for-pound number 1, number 2, it doesn’t really matter. What I care about is how can I just make myself better.”
Weili (26-3) tied former strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk for most title defenses at 115-pounds. The current champ stopped well short of calling herself the greatest strawweight of all time.
“Joanna is still the legend. When I started my MMA career I looked up (to) Joanna. I couldn’t imagine one day I could fight against her. Before this fight I text Joanna ‘Hey I’m going to fight in Sydney. Please come to watch.’ And today I saw her,” she said.
“I’m really happy.”
Everything may be about timing, but UFC CEO Dana White told the press that Weili’s team was waiting for him outside of his post-fight scrum. Weili played that down.
“Let’s talk with Dana later,” she said.
Watch the entire post-fight scrum with Weili Zhang above.
