{"id":343455,"date":"2020-03-06T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=343455"},"modified":"2020-03-06T11:30:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T19:30:14","slug":"joanna-jedrzejczyk-slams-cocky-and-arrogant-weili-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/joanna-jedrzejczyk-slams-cocky-and-arrogant-weili-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Jedrzejczyk slams ‘cocky and arrogant’ Weili Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former UFC strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk feels that the division’s reigning champ Weili Zhang is getting cocky.<\/p>\n

Jedrzejczyk let loose on Zhang ahead of their strawweight title fight, which co-headlines the UFC 248 card in Las Vegas on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s acting like she\u2019s confident,\u201d Jedrzejczyk told MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cShe\u2019s overconfident \u2013 in her eyes, I can see that she\u2019s a little girl. She\u2019s not ready. It\u2019s too much for her. She doesn\u2019t know how to carry herself as a champ, and I will prove that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see that she is overconfident, she is overcoming and she is getting cocky and arrogant \u2013 and she doesn\u2019t want to look in my eyes,\u201d Jedrzejczyk added. \u201cI will do my best to make her quit and beg me to stop. But I know she is very dangerous. Everything and anything can happen. Knockout, submission \u2013 but I\u2019m ready to take this war. I\u2019m ready to go through the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Jedrzejczyk seems excited to check Zhang’s ego, her main priority is regaining the title she owned for so long.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the most important fight of my fighting career, in my life,\u201d Jedrzejczyk said. \u201cI\u2019m very happy to be the challenger and take back what belongs to me \u2013 the strawweight belt. It\u2019s been a while. I was the champ for 966 days and it\u2019s been more than 518 days without me having the belt, without me being the champ. It means I was the champ for the reason, and I\u2019m the right person to be the challenger for the strawweight belt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joanna Jedrzejczyk will enter the UFC 248 co-main event with a dominant win over Michelle Waterson in the rear-view. Prior to that, she came up short in a flyweight title fight with Valentina Shevchenko. Do you think she will defeat Weili Zhang this Saturday?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 3\/6\/2020.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former UFC strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk feels that the division’s reigning champ Weili Zhang is getting cocky. Jedrzejczyk let loose on Zhang ahead of their strawweight title fight, which co-headlines the UFC 248 card in Las Vegas on Saturday night. \u201cShe\u2019s acting like she\u2019s confident,\u201d Jedrzejczyk told MMA Junkie. \u201cShe\u2019s overconfident \u2013 in her eyes, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":343456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10193,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nJoanna Jedrzejczyk slams 'cocky and arrogant' Weili Zhang | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC strawweight champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk feels that the division's reigning champ Weili Zhang is getting a little cocky.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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