{"id":324027,"date":"2019-09-02T06:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=324027"},"modified":"2019-09-02T06:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:23:35","slug":"li-jingliang-the-world-is-ready-to-see-chinas-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/li-jingliang-the-world-is-ready-to-see-chinas-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Jingliang: The world is ready to see China&#8217;s power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese welterweight fighter Li Jingliang represented his nation with an impressive victory at UFC Shenzhen on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Jingliang met streaking Brazilian contender Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos in the card&#8217;s co-main event, and derailed dos Santos&#8217; momentum via TKO with just 9 seconds left in the final round.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking post-fight, Jingliang described what the victory means for his professional career and his Chinese heritage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt so good winning this fight since this is in Shenzhen \u2013 this is China,&#8221; he said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/09\/li-jingliang-world-will-see-china-mma-power-ufc-shenzhen-knockout-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). &#8220;It\u2019s UFC\u2019s third time here. Few people knew about the sport of MMA when I started practising it. People didn\u2019t know that there were Chinese fighters in MMA. But from now on, the world sees us. We are powerful!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen to the cheering (for Weili Zhang\u2019s strawweight title win) \u2013 we just got our championship. It is historical. We are going to show the world China power, letting the world know that Chinese fighters are good at the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China is becoming a growing presence in the MMA world. ONE Championship has hosted several events in the country, while other local promotions like Kunlun Fight, The Art of War Fighting Championship, and RUFF have been blazing a trail for promoters in the country for years. The UFC also recently opened a state of the art training <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/martial-arts\/mixed-martial-arts\/article\/3015370\/ufc-performance-institute-shanghai-take-look\">facility in Shanghai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a lot of potential in this country and now we can see this grow,&#8221; Jingliang told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/china\/article\/2174682\/ufc-beijing-china-performance-institute-will-make-us-mma-super-power\">South China Morning Post<\/a> of this massive facility.<\/p>\n<p>Li Jingliang is ready to fly the flag of his home country and take on a top-10-ranked opponent in his next fight. Who would you like to see the Chinese welterweight go up against? Let us know in the comments below!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/china\/article\/2174682\/ufc-beijing-china-performance-institute-will-make-us-mma-super-power\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 9\/1\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese welterweight fighter Li Jingliang represented his nation with an impressive victory at UFC Shenzhen on Saturday. Jingliang met streaking Brazilian contender Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos in the card&#8217;s co-main event, and derailed dos Santos&#8217; momentum via TKO with just 9 seconds left in the final round. Speaking post-fight, Jingliang described what the victory means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54472,"featured_media":323695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10468,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Li Jingliang: The world is ready to see China&#039;s power | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chinese welterweight Li Jingliang discusses the impact of his and Weili Zhang&#039;s big victories at UFC Shenzhen over the weekend.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/li-jingliang-the-world-is-ready-to-see-chinas-power\/\" \/>\n<meta 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