{"id":343201,"date":"2020-03-04T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T19:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=343201"},"modified":"2020-03-04T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T19:40:05","slug":"meng-bo-the-only-woman-to-defeat-weili-zhang-discusses-ufc-champs-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/meng-bo-the-only-woman-to-defeat-weili-zhang-discusses-ufc-champs-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Meng Bo, the only woman to defeat Weili Zhang, discusses UFC champ\u2019s success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to scroll a long way down Weili Zhang\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/fighter\/history\/_\/id\/4350762\/zhang-weili\">20-1 record<\/a> to find her only loss. That solitary L occurred all the way back in 2013, in her very first fight, when she was defeated by a woman named Meng Bo at a regional mixed martial arts show in Xuchang, China.<\/p>\n<p>The bout was Meng\u2019s first, too. Although she and Zhang began their careers on the same night, the pair have had traveled different paths in the years since.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Zhang is the UFC strawweight champion\u2014the first and only Chinese champ in the promotion\u2019s history. Meng, on the other hand, recently debuted on the ONE Championship roster with a destructive, first-round win over Laura Balin.<\/p>\n<p>As Zhang gears up to defend her UFC belt against the former champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk in the co-main event of UFC 248 this weekend, Meng looked back on the night she defeated the UFC champ.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, she says the bout was more of an amateur contest\u2014which could conceivably mean Zhang is actually undefeated as a professional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were both at the start of our career and we were both young,\u201d Meng told BJPENN.com. \u201cIt was the first MMA contest for both of us, and there were only two rounds. [It was] not as professional as people think. It was an amateur promotion and we were both amateurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meng defeated Zhang by decision that night, but other than the thrill of winning her first match, doesn\u2019t remember much about tangling with the future UFC champ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been five or six years,\u201d she said of her fight with Zhang. \u201cI can\u2019t really remember it clearly. We were like kids, and I didn\u2019t fear anybody at that time. It\u2019s not like fighting in a worldwide promotion where you need to do the research of your opponent. I just didn\u2019t care who she was and, to be honest, I was not so impressed with her performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think too much [about her] at that time,\u201d Meng added. \u201cYou can\u2019t tell if someone has the potential for being a champion or not from her debut, but I can say I\u2019m not surprised she become a champion. In fact, all of China\u2019s top athletes have the potential to become a champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite not giving Zhang much thought after their match, Meng started to pay attention to her former rival as she rose steadily up the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI followed some of her fights because we are a tight community,\u201d she said, referencing the close-knit nature of the Chinese MMA scene. \u201cThrough her success I think one thing we learned is that, both hard work and opportunity can build a champion. Sometimes you can\u2019t succeed no matter how hard you work without opportunity, but sitting and waiting for luck also won\u2019t work. Weili is a lucky girl\u2014but she works as hard as a world champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given that Meng remains the only woman to defeat Zhang, fans will inevitably speculate how a rematch between the pair might go\u2014particularly as Meng continues to notch victories in ONE Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Meng is confident she\u2019d hand Zhang a loss, just like she did the first time they met.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we face each other again, I will be as confident as I was the last time we did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meng also believes Jedrzejczyk stands a chance of beating Zhang this weekend, and is very excited for the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to predict the outcome between these two because they both have advantages in different areas,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be the fight of the century for women\u2019s MMA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Meng Bo is best known as the woman behind Weili Zhang\u2019s only loss, there is certainly more to her career than that. She\u2019s accomplished a lot on the Asian MMA scene, and hopes to make a big splash in ONE Championship.<\/p>\n<p>She was scheduled to take on ONE stalwart Mei Yamaguchi at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/one-king-of-the-jungle-results-and-highlights-stamp-fairtex-surrenders-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ONE: King of the Jungle<\/a> card, but was unfortunately forced out of the bout due to complications stemming from the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-says-ufc-is-bracing-for-coronavirus-complications-this-is-a-serious-problem\/\">novel coronavirus outbreak in her native China<\/a>. She\u2019s disappointed things turned out the way they did, but is eager for the change to compete again \u2014 whether it\u2019s against Yamaguchi or somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty upset about the cancellation of the Singapore bout with Mei,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I believe we will face each other in the near future. She\u2019s a necessary step in my way to the mountain top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as our motherland defeats the coronavirus, I will be back in the ONE Circle right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Meng suggests, the goal is to capture gold in the ONE Championship atomweight division. She\u2019s confident she\u2019ll accomplish that goal and relishes the possibility of representing Chinese MMA the way Weili Zhang has in the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will become the world champion,\u201d she said. \u201cI will take on that goal one step at a time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would not only be the success of my personal career as an athlete, it also means the rise of MMA in the biggest market of Asia\u2014putting Chinese MMA on the map.\u201d<\/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 3\/4\/2020.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have to scroll a long way down Weili Zhang\u2019s 20-1 record to find her only loss. That solitary L occurred all the way back in 2013, in her very first fight, when she was defeated by a woman named Meng Bo at a regional mixed martial arts show in Xuchang, China. 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