On April 14, in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Zhang Weili defeated fellow martial arts athlete Yan Xiaonan to defend her title.
All of a sudden, major online media rushed to report, in addition to praising Zhang Weili's excellent fighting skills, but also letting more outsiders know her name.
Zhang Weili! Not only the champion on the field, but also the king of life.
The road to first place is not so easy, full of thorns...
Next, let's follow in my footsteps and learn about martial arts champion Zhang Weili.
Genius is forged
There may be geniuses in the world, but they are certainly a minority, and most of them are ordinary people, like a grain of sand in the dust, we are all carried by the storm, rising and falling with the wind.
But there are always some people who are outstanding, but they want to be the most shining one, but they don't know that it is so hard to become a "genius".
A girl's growth process is destined to be extraordinary, but Zhang Weili is exceptionally different.
At the age of 12, she was sent to a martial arts school.
At a time when he should have turned a blind eye to what was going on outside the window and was only reading the "Book of Sages", Zhang Weili picked up a knife and stick and tied up his horse.
The crackling sweat didn't stop her love. The reason for perseverance is that it is full of love.
This little girl likes to climb over walls and trees, but she didn't know that this flipping and turning really broke out of her own world in the future.
When she was 8 years old, Zhang Weili's athletic potential had not yet been explored, but she only showed some spearheads, and when she came home from school, the TV was not playing cartoons, but martial arts movies. At a young age, Zhang Weili watched her favorite martial arts action movies on time every day on the TV channel.
The quick shots and wonderful fighting plots in the movie made this little girl can't take her eyes off.
At the age when she should have fallen in love with Barbie, Zhang Weili fell in love with knives, guns and sticks.
She was very assertive and proposed to her parents to sign up to study at a martial arts school, but this idea was quickly denied by Zhang's parents and Zhang's mother, and they agreed that their current daughter was too young.
Now that I go to study in a martial arts school, I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it, and the normal trajectory should be to study hard in school.
When girls go to practice martial arts, they are bound to suffer a lot, does this way really work?
Zhang's father was a worker at the Handan Coal Mine in Hebei Province, growing up in an ordinary coal mining family, and perhaps studying was the only way out, but Zhang Weili changed this stereotype.
Zhang's father and Zhang's mother knew the pain of learning martial arts, and resolutely rejected Zhang Weili's request to go to a martial arts school. But Zhang Weili is really very interested in the back-and-forth of your back-and-forth, her parents do not agree with her to go to a martial arts school, Zhang Weili has no other way, while expressing to her parents that she wants to go to a martial arts school, while showing a special "talent".
Zhang Weili was able to easily get the first place in physical education class, and even her physical fitness was better than that of ordinary boys.
"Looks like a tomboy"
"Running faster than the boys!"
Usually the neighbors will come to visit the door, everyone is also watching Zhang Weili grow up, this day a relative said, "Your child looks very fond of running and jumping, why don't you send it to the martial arts school to study, maybe you can become a talent, and then go out to play a game."
Zhang's father and mother are beginning to waver, maybe it is okay to send their daughter to a martial arts school, the age is enough, and their daughter likes these things very much, under the persuasion of relatives, Zhang's father and mother decided to send their daughter to a martial arts school to learn martial arts.
This is true, but it is really a prophecy and has become a world champion.
Sharpened into gold
The process of turning from a small pebble into a pearl is hard, and the mussel has to endure the pain of being crushed by the hard stone in the body day and night, and finally can obtain the bright pearl.
Anyone's success is inseparable from grinding.
12-year-old Zhang Weili in the reluctance of her parents, entered the martial arts school to study, and her parents' worried state, Zhang Weili seems much happier, here she can finally sweat freely, more importantly, there are professional coaches and equipment to regulate her learning, guide her on the way to study problems. The most important thing is that systematic training can supervise her, which child is not playful?
Zhang Weili is too, the rigorous training makes her almost breathless, she also wants to be lazy, but at this time everyone is training and learning, there are like-minded friends with her, Zhang Weili is not afraid, she can't hold on to the hard work, so she called her parents, listening to her parents' voices, Zhang Weili has energy again, and continues to move forward.
The study and life of the martial arts school is very hard, so hard that it is unimaginable, so bitter that many people can't persist and drop out.
And Zhang Weili's school is 5 years, at the age of 14, Zhang Weili won the Hebei Provincial Sanda Championship, and the whole family cheered for it, but Zhang Weili's ambition is not only that, but also better, to play in the national competition, to be the world's first.
Be the number one in the world!
But this time, the champion almost killed this little girl.
Zhang Weili's wonderful performance in the sanda competition was valued by the Jiangsu provincial team, and it was decided to invite Zhang Weili to join and carefully cultivate her to prepare for entering the national team in the future.
The little girl craves victory, especially after tasting the sweetness, she wants to fly higher.
Her mind was all about "winning", so she worked hard, training day and night.
But is the high-intensity training so that this little girl who is not yet 18 years old should bear it?
She fell ill and was pulled up in the waist so bad that she couldn't play anymore.
When the doctor told Zhang Weili that her current physical condition was not suitable for training, the little girl cried, it was so difficult on the training ground, she was sweating so much, and even bleeding, she didn't cry.
The doctor meant that perhaps, she would never be able to play again, even though the doctor was tactful.
Where can she go without the Sanda team?
"Find someone to marry and have a child, and the whole life will pass like this"
"Be a teacher, good teacher"
Zhang Weili has her own stubbornness, and with the encouragement of her mother, she came to Beijing alone to work hard.
Go to the outside world to see, there are flowers outside, and if you can't get along, go home.
The bustling appearance of Greater Beijing makes this girl from a small town dazzled and unable to stagger.
But the reality is always cruel, if you have money, here is a spendthrift of money and resplendent Beijing, and if you don't have money, here is Beijing, it's just Beijing.
When she first arrived, Zhang Weili did a lot of work, cleaning, kindergarten teacher, security guard, as long as she could make money, Zhang Weili could do anything, and now she wants to live.
Maxima finally met Bole
Zhang Weili likes sports, so she found a gym salesman, she can exercise for free, she still likes the feeling of sweating, at this time, she met a special person.
Wu Haotian, a male professional martial arts athlete, introduced Zhang Weili to what MMA is, what UFC is, and any move used in this kind of competition, as long as he can beat the other party.
Zhang Weili was shocked by this way of playing and was determined to win the championship.
After that, Zhang Weili went to work during the day and trained at night, and insisted on training.
Later, her work really seriously interfered with her training, so she simply quit her job, joined a fight club, and began a rigorous and systematic training life.
And this is how her illustrious career began.
Kunlun Duel was her first battle to become famous, winning 15 games in a row, breaking the game record, and everyone began to remember her name.
But this is a small fight for Zhang Weili.
Her goal is to be the champion of the UFC, but she didn't expect the opportunity to come so soon, the UFC organizers are looking for new people to fight all over the world, Zhang Weili is so happy that she immediately told her team that she wants to fight abroad.
Due to the first time to go abroad to play the game, Zhang Weili encountered unprecedented difficulties, only Zhang Weili's visa was passed, and her team was rejected, that is to say, Zhang Weili wanted to go to a foreign country to play alone, there was no professional team to guide the rear work, and the game date was imminent, either give up this opportunity, do not participate in the game, or face it alone.
Of course, Zhang Weili chose the second type, the first opponent was Daniel Taylor, although she was famous, but Zhang Weili was not afraid, sparks and lightning all the way, but if she wanted to fight with the champion, she had to enter the top 10, and when she reached the sixth ranking, she made a difficulty, and no one fought with her.
The fifth does not participate in the competition, but the second place looks down on this "nobody" and does not fight with her, Zhang Weili has no choice but to train while looking for an opponent, how to win the first place if no one fights with her.
At a loss, coach Cai Xuejun came to the door and said that someone had beaten her.
"Guess who?"
"Chen?"
Jessica Andrade
First place and Zhang Weili fight! Wake her up from her sleep.
won and became a UFC champion, or the first in China.
The moment that has been dreamed of for a long time is about to come true.
On August 31, 2019, the day of the championship showdown, the crowd in the arena was cheering, Zhang Weili went to the octagon, at this moment she couldn't hear the hustle and bustle around her, she just wanted to concentrate on the game.
Jessica Andrade has been on the battlefield for a long time, and just got on the court to give Zhang Weili a punch to get off the horse, she thought about how to fight back and break the game, and finally she found Jessica Andrade's game loophole, and chased after the victory, in the 42nd second! Jessica Andrade fell.
Zhang Weili won, cheers all around, and she shouted excitedly...
China's first UFC World Champion was born
After that, Zhang Weili is still on the road, defeating Joanna Yeddellzecik in 2020, ranking No. 27 on the Forbes China Celebrity List in the same year, and knocking out Carla Esparza in 2022 to regain the belt......
From a nameless ordinary person to the current world champion, along the way, Zhang Weili has walked too long and too long, and what kind of success does not need to pay, after several attacks of low back pain, Zhang Weili still endured it, and persevered until now, if she can not rest, she will not rest, even if she is at home on vacation, she does not forget to carry out basic movement training.
Engrave some actions in your bones, so that you will not forget, even if you are on the verge of death, muscle memory will make you fight back unconsciously.
In this year's UFC 300 showdown with Yan Xiaonan, Zhang Weili once again defended her belt, which made us feel the power of women, regardless of whether they won or lost, they are both champions.
There is only one kind of success in the world called persistence, Zhang Weili is still constantly refreshing records, what about us? Like a champion, run forward, even if it is bitter, but please be full of tears.