In the UFC Fighting Night 197 main tournament, China's Song Yadong and American Arce played against each other, the match was declared over in the second round, Song Yadong TKO opponent Arce, achieved the final victory, which was the first victory of Chinese players after the defeat of Li Jingliang and Zhang Weili.
Li Jingliang (left) Zhang Weili (right)
At the beginning of the game, Song Yadong controlled the rhythm, although the opponent tried to counterattack several times but failed to succeed, in the second round, Song Yadong hit Arce's head through a high sweep leg, and when the opponent failed to react, Song Yadong continued to make up for the punch, hitting the opponent on the side of the octagon cage, and then swinging his fist left and right to make it difficult for Arce to resist.
It was not until the referee called a halt to the game that Song Yadong stopped attacking, and with the advantage of TKO opponents, Song Yadong won the game and began to celebrate in the field.
After the game, Song Yadong accepted an interview, said that he was very happy, but the result was not surprised, he thought that he should KO opponents, because his own strength is higher than the opponent, and then said the goal, hoping to enter the top ten next year, of course, Song Yadong himself did not forget to complain, thinking that the UFC should arrange a higher level of players for himself, it is difficult to understand such an arrangement, he hopes to duel with ranked players.
This period of time is extremely difficult for Chinese fighting, Zhang Weili Li Jingliang two Chinese fighting representatives have been defeated, in urgent need of players to save the decline, for the Chinese fight to justify the name, obviously Song Yadong's victory is a bright light, for the confusion in the dark moment of chinese boxing fans to increase confidence, this "kung fu monkey" is really unusual.
In March this year, Song Yadong lost three rounds to the United States player Keller Phillips, experienced the first defeat of the UFC, and represented that he failed to break the longest unbeaten record of Asian players, this period was Song Yadong's career low, and 5 months later, Song Yadong rose in the trough, beat Kathy Kenny in points, and achieved transformation in offensive rhythm and physical reserves, so that Bai Dana lamented the performance of 23-year-old Song Yadong after the game, which was the first victory brought by Song Yadong in the case of eight consecutive defeats by Chinese players. And now, in the case of Zhang Weili's five-legged defeat against Ross, and Li Jingliang being nakedly strangled by Kanzat-Chimayev in the ring, he has won again, becoming the "star of hope" in China's fight, with unlimited future potential.
Postscript: The match with the American Player Arce is Song Yadong's third event in 2021, after Song Yadong clearly said that he wanted to KO opponents, he did it, but the winning Song Yadong did not get too excited, but some regrets that the game ended prematurely and failed to have fun. Then Song Yadong will rest for a while to ease the fatigue of two consecutive games.