Alonzo Menifield had no problem playing the spoiler at UFC Macau.<\/p>\n
In Saturday\u2019s co-main event at Galaxy Arena, Menifield knocked out China\u2019s Zhang Mingyang inside of a round to silence his opponent\u2019s home country crowd and score an upset victory.<\/p>\n
Watch the thrilling finish below.<\/p>\n
Zhang was coming off of his first UFC setback, a knockout loss to Johnny Walker in the UFC Shanghai main event this past August. His reputation for first-round knockouts didn\u2019t deter Menifield from engaging and the two threw heavy punches at each other for the majority of the bout, with Menifield eventually wearing Zhang down.<\/p>\n
Menifield backed Zhang up, giving him little room to breathe as he threw hook after hook after hook until Zhang\u2019s defenses completely crumbled. In the end, it was Menifield who outlasted Zhang, finishing the fight at the 4:15 mark of Round 1.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, Menifield was asked if the plan was to stand with the dangerous striker, and he didn\u2019t hesitate with his response.<\/p>\n
\u201cDamn right that was the g*ddamn plan,\u201d Menifield said. \u201cI\u2019m going to come in here and fight him. You think I\u2019m going to run and wrestle? Hell no. I came here and I fought him and I got him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Menifield (18-7-1) improved his UFC record to 11-6-1 and has now won three of his past four fights. With his impressive performance against Zhang, \u201cAtomic\u201d bounced back from a knockout loss to Volkan Oezdemir this past November at UFC Qatar.<\/p>\n
Zhang (19-8) has now lost consecutive high-profile fights in his native China after starting his UFC career 3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alonzo Menifield had no problem playing the spoiler at UFC Macau. In Saturday\u2019s co-main event at Galaxy Arena,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-704450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}