{"id":382297,"date":"2021-04-18T09:58:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=382297"},"modified":"2021-04-18T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:58:59","slug":"team-zhang-responds-to-better-dead-than-red-comments-from-rose-namajunas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/team-zhang-responds-to-better-dead-than-red-comments-from-rose-namajunas\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Zhang responds to \u201cbetter dead than red\u201d comments from Rose Namajunas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team of UFC women&#8217;s strawweight champion Weili Zhang responded to the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/rose-namajunas-takes-political-jab-at-weili-zhang-ahead-of-ufc-261-better-dead-than-red\/\">\u201cbetter dead than red\u201d<\/a> comments from Rose Namajunas.<\/p>\n<p>Namajunas&#8217; recent comments led to a lot of media coverage after a clip of her talking about communism. As part of the comments, Namajunas took a shot at Zhang. The two meet next weekend at UFC 261 for the UFC women&#8217;s strawweight title currently held by Zhang. Ahead of the fight, Zhang&#8217;s strength and conditioning coach, Ruben Yana Jr., spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/martial-arts\/mixed-martial-arts\/article\/3129958\/ufc-261-zhang-weili-not-paying-attention-rose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCMP MMA<\/a> and he responded to the recent comments that Namajunas made.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest with you we haven\u2019t been paying attention. It\u2019s been like watching it but not feeling it,&#8221; Namajunas said. &#8220;This is the soap opera that\u2019s happening but [we\u2019re] not really engaging in it because we\u2019re just so focused on the fight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-v-47e81c7c=\"\" data-v-366694b7=\"\">\n<div data-v-22ae94a0=\"\" data-v-47e81c7c=\"\">\n<div data-v-47e81c7c=\"\" data-v-22ae94a0=\"\">\n<div class=\"details__body body body--next\" data-v-366694b7=\"\">\n<div class=\"paywalled-content\" data-v-366694b7=\"\">\n<div data-v-366694b7=\"\">\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-0741dee2=\"\" data-v-366694b7=\"\">\u201cIt hasn\u2019t even been a topic of the team. I wish there was something more that I could say but it\u2019s non-emotional. There\u2019s really nothing to say if you\u2019re not really emotionally attached to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-v-0741dee2=\"\" data-v-366694b7=\"\">Payan said that Team Zhang isn&#8217;t personally concerned about the comments, but he can sense a strange feeling among the fans who were upset by what Namajunas said. Payan and Zhang are just focused on her preparation right now, but he did criticize Namajunas for not being entirely accurate with her comments, as far as Team Zhang is concerned.<\/p>\n<p data-v-0741dee2=\"\" data-v-366694b7=\"\">\u201cYou\u2019re just kind of watching things happen and you\u2019re watching people talk about it. And you see people get upset about it. And you see the comments but you\u2019re not involved in it. That\u2019s kind of how it feels,&#8221; Payan said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-0741dee2=\"\" data-v-366694b7=\"\">\u201cEven though some of the comments are directed towards [Zhang], there\u2019s so much non-truths to it that it\u2019s like we\u2019re not even going to pay attention to it. That\u2019s kind of how we feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>How excited are you for Weili Zhang and Rose Namajunas to throw down at UFC 261?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team of UFC women&#8217;s strawweight champion Weili Zhang responded to the recent \u201cbetter dead than red\u201d comments from Rose Namajunas. Namajunas&#8217; recent comments led to a lot of media coverage after a clip of her talking about communism. As part of the comments, Namajunas took a shot at Zhang. 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