GrahamB wrote:Interesting fight - Rose has the better technique, but I think Zhang's conditioning is far superior. Could go either way.
GrahamB wrote:It was an incredible card. Did you see the first fight on the prelims? UFC 261: Ariane Carnelossi vs Liang Na - absolute insanity! That was the best fight of the night for me.
Zhang Weili on Apr 25, 2021 wrote:“I want to congratulate Rose on her victory,” Weili wrote. “She bounced back from her defeat. I believe I will also come back, only beat a great champion, to become a legend, and beat a legend, I will become a new me. Before, my goal was to win the UFC championship, but today, I have a higher goal than that. Thank you! It’s normal to lose and win. That’s the UFC. Andrade, Joanna, Rose have all lost and they all come back and try again. I have deepened my understanding of UFC today. So I believe I can come back. Hopefully the UFC will schedule a rematch soon.”
Steve James wrote:Everybody has a plan until....
everything wrote:so Zhang's team should see she's bad with head kicks, but still she isn't prepared? seems like good planning in Rose's corner and bad in Zhang's as some of you said in the previews.
Rose Namajunas on April 28, 2021 wrote:… But, that particular technique we worked on. That was definitely part of the game plan. And, I knew that was a vulnerability that she had. Pat has been to China and kicked boxed there for a long time in his early days. And, a lot of his knockouts came from left high kick over there. So, it’s just something that we worked on. … Oh yeah, everything was set up from all the movement. It was a perfectly executed game plan. There were other things part of the game plan. But, that was definitely one of the main things. … There is like multiple calculations going on, all at once. And, to put it into just this is the one thing that I saw, there’s so many things that I see just by her movement, even just the way she like kind of moves out of the way. She does that little like weird hip thing, like Sanchai does. All of her tendencies I study. I don’t know her. But, I do know I think a lot about her. I feel my calculations were pretty spot-on. They are all theories, right? Then, you go into the fight and test them out. And, I was right. … Yeah, Pat and I worked on that a lot (look down, then kick high). Yeah man, I played that there like a violin. It’s so intricate. It’s not just how hard you punch and kick. It’s not how strong you are. It’s an art. It’s so much that goes into this that I couldn’t even write it all down. There’s a lot of we do right now. But there’s also a bunch of decision making and things and preparation that once you get into the fight, things just kind of happen and all that preparation sort of comes together.
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