{"id":284889,"date":"2025-11-15T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284889\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:52:07","slug":"ronda-rousey-sends-message-to-zhang-weili-ahead-of-ufc-322-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284889\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey sends message to Zhang Weili ahead of UFC 322 title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Zhang Weili is entering an ultra-important women\u2019s superfight against Valentina Shevchenko later tonight (Sat., Nov. 15, 2025) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-322-jack-della-vs-islam-makhachev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 322<\/a> LIVE on <a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/c\/482924\/595608\/9070?subId1=SBN111125\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN+ pay-per-view (PPV)<\/a> from inside Madison Square Garden in New York City, but at least she\u2019ll have the support of UFC trailblazer Ronda Rousey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Zhang, who relinquished her UFC women\u2019s strawweight title to move up to 125 pounds, has a really good chance to overthrow Shevchenko this weekend and become the next female fighter to win UFC titles in two different divisions. Many MMA enthusiasts already consider Weili one of the best fighters in women\u2019s MMA history, but taking out \u201cBullet\u201d would be a huge feather in her cap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ahead of her UFC 322 co-main event bid, Weili has received some words of praise from none other than Rousey. The former UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-322-jack-della-vs-islam-makhachev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/402776\/ufc-322s-islam-defends-great-person-khabib-from-ronda-rousey-attack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">catching some flack<\/a> recently for things she has said about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/399678\/bitter-ronda-rousey-mocks-ufc-fans-worshipping-khabib-really-sad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khabib Nurmagomedov<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/399839\/rogan-catches-stray-during-rowdy-rousey-interview-hes-not-an-expert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Rogan<\/a>, but this time around \u201cRowdy\u201d only offered support. In fact, Rousey reminded Zhang that she is representing all women in the sport and hopes she goes out this weekend to \u201csteal the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI just wanted to say best of luck to you this weekend,\u201d said Rousey. \u201cYou\u2019re representing the women in this sport, and all the women that will come after you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cNone of them actually give a shit whether or not you or Valentina win. What they actually care about is that you go out there and you prove to everyone watching and everyone else on that card that you are a main event attraction and you are the most exciting fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYou go out there and you steal the show and make sure everybody remembers your name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more UFC 322: \u201cJack Della vs. Islam Makhachev\u201d event-related news, video highlights and more click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-322-jack-della-vs-islam-makhachev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhang Weili is entering an ultra-important women\u2019s superfight against Valentina Shevchenko later tonight (Sat., Nov. 15, 2025) at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,127022,33601,638,109794,82,127021,702],"class_list":["post-284889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-jack-della-vs-islam-start-time","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-preview-and-live-results","tag-sports","tag-ufc-322-fight-card","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}