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The Lightweight Championship was known as the Bantamweight Championship prior to UFC 31 (May 4, 2001). The Strikeforce Lightweight Championship was unified (perhaps unofficially) with the UFC Lightweight Championship on April 20, 2013, when Benson Henderson defeated Gilbert Melendez at UFC on Fox: Henderson vs. Melendez. [35]
Zhang Weili (Chinese: 张伟丽; pinyin: Zhāng Wěilì; born August 13, 1990) is a Chinese professional mixed martial artist.She currently competes in the women's Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is the current and two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion and the first Chinese fighter to win a UFC championship.
UFC has added a women's strawweight division that is set at 115 lbs. [4] Carla Esparza became the inaugural UFC Women's Strawweight Champion at The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned Finale on December 12, 2014. The Association of Boxing Commissions officially added the 115 lb strawweight division on July 29, 2015. [5] [6]
A decade ago, Zhang Weili was handing out flyers to rushing commuters in front of her local subway station. Now she’s considered one of the best women’s mixed-martial arts (MMA) fighters in ...
Championship belts are fought for at each weight class under a promotion, with only one belt awarded per class. Each belt is usually contested every time the belt holder fights, and passed to the victor of that fight (see the List of UFC champions for a chronology of UFC title belts). A belt may be vacated when a fighter leaves a promotion, or ...
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) rankings, ... Strawweight #1 in strawweight rankings: UFC 314: Virna Jandiroba [7] 11 Tatiana Suarez: 10–1 0 Strawweight
Carla Kristen Esparza [4] (born October 10, 1987) is an American former professional mixed martial artist and wrestler who most recently competed in the women's Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), in which she is the former two-time UFC Women's Strawweight Champion.
— UFC (@ufc) April 14, 2024 The mood was noticeably subdued in the run-up to the next fight, the co-main event between women's strawweight champion Zhang Weili and challenger Yan Xiaonan.