{"id":814880,"date":"2026-07-21T18:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814880\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:23:20","slug":"ai-former-ufc-champ-unrecognizable-in-stunning-new-makeover-and-fight-fans-are-shook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814880\/","title":{"rendered":"AI? Former UFC champ unrecognizable in stunning new makeover and fight fans are SHOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former UFC strawweight champion, Zhang Weili, just had a professional makeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 115-pound powerhouse, who holds victories over former champions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2022\/6\/11\/23163977\/ufc-275-full-fight-video-highlights-zhang-weili-vs-joanna-jedrzejczyk-2-espn-ppv-knockout-retire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joanna Jedrzejczyk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2022\/11\/13\/23455437\/ufc-281-results-carla-esparza-zhang-weili-strawweight-submission-who-won-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carla Esparza<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2020\/3\/3\/21161917\/ufc-248-free-fight-video-weili-zhang-knocks-out-jessica-andrade-makes-history-china-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Andrade<\/a>, among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/2\/11\/24363512\/tatiana-suarez-issues-statement-zhang-weili-loss-ufc-312-im-right-where-i-want-to-be-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">others<\/a>, shared a video of her new look on Instagram and fight fans were so rattled by the transformation that some of them were insisting the results were aided by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThere was a professional makeup artist who taught me to apply makeup,\u201d Zhang said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC strawweight champion, Zhang Weili, just had a professional makeover. The 115-pound powerhouse, who holds victories over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-814880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814880","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=814880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}