{"id":92947,"date":"2025-08-24T06:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92947\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T06:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T06:17:14","slug":"ufc-shanghai-mma-community-reacts-to-johnny-walkers-wild-upset-win-over-zhang-mingyang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/92947\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Shanghai: MMA community reacts to Johnny Walker&#8217;s wild upset win over Zhang Mingyang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Walker proved the oddsmakers wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Expected by many to get knocked out, Walker (22-9 MMA, 8-6 UFC) turned the tables on Zhang Mingyang (19-6 MMA, 3-0 UFC)\u00a0and handed the Chinese star his first defeat in the octagon in the main event of Saturday&#8217;s \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-shanghai-august-23-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 257;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 257<\/a> in Shanghai, China. Walker <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/ufc-fight-night-257-results-125835732.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:stopped;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stopped<\/a> Zhang with ground-and-pound midway through the second round after dropping him with some nasty leg kicks that left Zhang limping.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Walker surprised many in the MMA community with the result, including many of his fellow fighters. See how the MMA community reacted to Walker&#8217;s upset win below<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/23\/ufc-shanghai-reactions-to-johnny-walkers-win-over-zhang-mingyang\/85795618007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Shanghai: Reactions to Johnny Walker&#039;s win over Zhang Mingyang;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Shanghai: Reactions to Johnny Walker&#8217;s win over Zhang Mingyang<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Walker proved the oddsmakers wrong. Expected by many to get knocked out, Walker (22-9 MMA, 8-6 UFC)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,51932,638,1302,82,640,50876],"class_list":{"0":"post-92947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-johnny-walker","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-mma-junkie","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-zhang-mingyang"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92947","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=92947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}