{"id":90034,"date":"2025-08-23T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90034\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:01:08","slug":"highlights-walker-upsets-zhang-with-leg-kick-tko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/90034\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights! Walker Upsets Zhang With Leg Kick TKO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Zhang Mingyang got what they call \u201cfraud checked\u201d earlier today (Sat., Aug. 23, 2025) at UFC Shanghai LIVE on <a href=\"http:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/566982\/9070?sharedid=MMAMania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+<\/a> from inside the Shanghai Indoor Stadium in Shanghai, China, suffering an upset TKO (leg kicks and punches) to light heavyweight veteran Johnny Walker in the main event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Walker inexplicably shot for a takedown in the first two seconds of the fight and ended up on his back. From there, Mingyang landed some short ground-and-pound to jump out to an early lead. The veteran light heavyweight was able to get back to his feet only to have Mingyang score some clean elbows inside. Walker did find a home for a stiff jab, but he was beginning to trail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mingyang let his hands go even more in the second round (his first second-round appearance since 2018) and ended up hurting Walker in the opening 90 seconds. Walker hung in tough, though, and badly hurt Mingyang with two nasty calf kicks. The Chinese contender dropped to the canvas as Walker started to tee off with heavy punches. The referee watched closely, but eventually had no choice but to jump in and stop the action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Walker, who was about a 3:1 betting underdog heading into Saturday\u2019s main event, walked away with his first UFC win since May 2023. It was quite the comeback for the towering Brazilian finisher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out the video highlights below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more UFC Shanghai results, coverage, and highlights click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhang Mingyang got what they call \u201cfraud checked\u201d earlier today (Sat., Aug. 23, 2025) at UFC Shanghai LIVE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,45879,46234,6656],"class_list":["post-90034","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","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-videos","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034","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=90034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}