On March 13, "Kung Fu Monkey" Song Yadong shined in the UFC ring, defeating Marlon Moras, who ranked tenth in the UFC's weile (61 kg) in the first leg, in a KO way. The victory was also a battle in the top ten of the UFC KO rankings for Chinese male boxers for the first time. Yesterday, the UFC updated the rankings, and Song Yadong's ranking was directly upgraded to the 9th place in the weight of the chicks, becoming the first male boxer in China to enter the top ten of the official UFC ranking, and also the highest ranking male boxer in the UFC in China today. In the interview before the game, Song Yadong also said that if he entered the top ten, the boxers he wanted to fight the most were "Dance King" Cruz and "King" Aldo. After KO Moras, Song Yadong called out Cruz on the spot, which also made foreign martial fans start a hot discussion.
Ranked in the order of magnitude
As a popular boxer of the UFC, Cruz has a large number of fans, Song Yadong's call has also made more foreign martial arts fans pay attention to the young Chinese teenager. Among them, the old friend of Chinese martial arts fans, the UFC double champion Sehudo, who once helped Zhang Weili prepare, supported Song Yadong, released social dynamics to say that the chickweight should be careful, and Song Yadong came.
Sehudo Dynamics
At the same time, some media also made a comparison of the careers of Song Yadong and Cruz. They were compared from the winning rate, KO rate, ko prevention (the proportion of losing matches that were not KO), surrender rate, and anti-surrender (the proportion of lost matches that were not surrendered). From the perspective of winning percentage, Cruz clearly has the advantage, as high as 89%, while Song Yadong's winning rate is "only" 73%, but in addition to the winning rate, Song Yadong is even better.
Foreign media production of Song Yadong and Cruz comparison chart, red for Song Yadong, blue for Cruz is currently in the UFC welterweight of the 7th, Cruz career 27-24 wins 7KO1 surrender, is a very good at standing boxer. At his peak, Cruz won the WEC ChickWeight Championship and the UFC Hatchweight Championship. Cruz was sidelined in 2011 due to injury and did not recover until 2016, when he defeated Dilassio to regain the UFC's welterweight belt. In June 2016, Cruz decided to defeat the current Song Yadong coach Fibo to defend the title of Golden Belt, but in December of the same year Cruz lost to Fibo's love cody, and the Gold Belt changed hands.
Cruz
After the war, Cruz recovered from injury again and returned in May 2020 to compete with Sehudo for the golden belt in the welterweights, but was attacked by his opponent TKO in the second leg. However, Cruz has not been convinced by the outcome of the match, believing that the referee prematurely terminated the game. Cruz has since defeated Kathy Kenny (also defeated by Song Yadong) and Monhoz, who is currently tied for 9th place with Song Yadong, showing the strength of the sword.
Cruz and Fibo's feud dates back to 2011, when the two sides served as the leaders of two teams in the UFC talent show TIF, and in the same year, the two also fought in the UFC arena, and Cruz decided to win. Now the 37-year-old Cruz is once again facing the challenge of Song Yadong, another fibo favorite, and many martial arts fans have ridiculed cruz and the alpha boy band (the team created by fibo) the feud continues.
Cruz has not responded to Song Yadong's challenge at the moment, but if this game can be facilitated. If Song Yadong can win, he will not only rank in the UFC, but also have a higher level of influence. Although he is only 24 years old, he is already a "veteran" who has been playing in the MMA arena for many years. In the interview, we can also see that Song Yadong has a clear plan for his career, and we also expect him to guard against arrogance and impetuosity and move towards a higher honor.