The Chinese champion has currently proven itself as the best stream weight in the world with the division firmly in her grip.
The recent achievements of Zhang Weili against Tatiana Suarez showed that she is now lying levels for the other top candidates in the world, but her way to the top was not easy.
Long before Weili could watch Champ vs Champ Fights, she had to test herself on the most dominant 155-pounds in UFC history.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk van Polen was not only a pioneer like the woman who put the division on the map, she was a bright champion during her reign.
There is a reason that Jedrzejczyk showed more interest in a female BMF title fight and it is because of unforgettable nights such as UFC 248.
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Zhang Weili barely came to the victory in a direct classic title fight with Joanna Jedrzejczyk
After Zhang Weili ran straight through Jessica Andrade to become the Strom weight champion, her first title defense would come across the former dominant champion.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk was undefeated during her title line, but after three losses in title fights against Rose Namajunas and Valentina Shevchenko, it was time for her to show that she could still hang with the new wave of Strogesweigen.
In the Co-Main event of UFC 248, which took place five years ago to this day (March 7), the newly crowned champion was confronted with a woman who had become synonymous with the gold and the fight blew the expectations completely out of the water.
The story that was on the way to the fight was output against strength, but the defending champion proved that she could match the speed and pace of her challenger, because two of the best in the world left it all behind it.
They both had a lot of success on the feet, combine for 351 strikes landed, but there is one aspect of this fight that many fight fans remember.
The champion consistently landed large Power shots on the head that created a hematoma on the forehead of Jedrzejczyk that really became a factor in the championship rounds where it continued to swell to make the challenger look unrecognizable at the end of the fight.
Many of the rounds went straight to the thread, where both women regularly walked huge shots in the stock markets, which was reflected in the score cards where the champion had retained the title through a split decision.
As Jedrzejczyk predicted correctly in advance, many believe that it is the greatest female title fight in the MMA history.
Zhang Weili won the Rematch in a devastating way
While Joanna Jedrzejczyk took over for more than two years, Zhang Weili would lose her title after back-to-back to Rose Namajunas.
Both women suggested that a rematch on UFC 275 in Singapore, where this time the Chinese star left no room for debate by delivering a rotating backfist knockout in the second round.
In her interview after the fight after the loss, Jedrzejczyk announced her retirement with the former flow queen that was admitted to the UFC Hall of Fame last year.
As far as Weili is concerned, she changed her bouncing victory over Jedrzejczyk into a five-field profit freak where she has been completely dominant at 115 pounds without signs of delay.
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