Will coronavirus-related camp disruptions affect Zhang Weili?
Simply getting to Las Vegas was a bigger challenge for newly minted strawweight champion Weili (20-1 MMA, 4-0 UFC) than anything that’s been thrown her way in her perfect UFC career.
It started in October before her fight with Jedrzejczyk was even announced, as her U.S. visa was denied by the bumbling incompetents in the Trump administration.
Then coronavirus hit China. The combination of her visa issues and travel restrictions meant she couldn’t come straight to the U.S. So she bounced from Beijing to Thailand to Abu Dhabi before finally being cleared to come to the States, where she finished her training at the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas.
Will this disjointed camp mean Zhang is off on fight night? Or did it simply cause her to double down on her fight focus? We’ll find out.
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