Recently, Zhang Weili revealed her next plan in an interview. She is ready to continue her training trip to the United States after the Spring Festival and hopes to return in June 2022 to fight the "cookie monster" Carla Esparza. Moreover, Zhang Weili also said that she may see herself and active champion Rose Namajunas three times before the end of next year.
Zhang Weili played against Rose twice this year, and the first match in April this year was lost by TKO, and the 21-game winning streak was ended. The second game was staged at UFC 268 in November of the same year, Zhang Weili and Rose fought fiercely for five rounds, and finally regretted to lose by disagreement, but this game has seen Zhang Weili's huge improvement.
In response to the controversial penalty, Zhang said after the game that she believed her defeat was justified. "I think I agree with [this decision]," she said in an interview with the media, "because I did have physical problems in the last round, and the last leg was very important for the winner or loser." ”
Now that Zhang Weili has returned to China and is out of quarantine, she has made plans for her next game. She said she would return to the Night Ready MMA Boxing Gym in Arizona after the Spring Festival.
Zhang Weili said: "I plan to return to the United States after the Spring Festival to train, next year I may have more time abroad, when you first come to the United States, there are a lot of things to adapt to, so staying there longer is more conducive to training." ”
Zhang Weili and her team plan to return to the competition next June, and she herself hopes to be against former champion "Cookie Monster" Carla Espasa.
"We had planned to have the next match in June next year and I wanted to play with Carla but now we need to see if the UFC will arrange it and I just saw say she wants to play in May because she's going to get married in May and she wants to play before she gets married. So we'll have to look at the timing. ”
In addition, Zhang Weili plans to play two games next year, and she expects to play three games with Rose again before the end of 2022.
In fact, from the second battle between Zhang Weili and Rose, we can see that the gap between these two players is very small, and the state on the field and the degree of fatigue during preparation may affect the victory or defeat on the field.
Therefore, Zhang Weili decided to go to the United States for long-term training and will definitely help her growth and state maintenance. We also hope that Zhang Weili will not have too much psychological pressure and look forward to her wonderful performance when she returns.