Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2022-11-12, mom’s great fight: Carla Esparza vs Weili Zhang gets three stars (UFC night’s performance – check out our ratings of The best Mma matches of 2022).
Zhang vs Esparza is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 12, at Madison Square Garden, New York (USA), in the 5-round straw weight class (115 lbs, 52 kg); it’s valid for the UFC women’s strawweight title (Esparza’s first defense) and it’s poor Israel Adesanya vs Alex Pereira – UFC 281. Watch videos and Rate this fight!
Record Carla Esparza
Former Invicta FC champion and current Ufc champion Carla Esparza enter this fight with a professional record of 19-6-0 (42% completion rate) and she is ranked as No.1 straw weight class of women in the world.
She lost two games in a row in 2018, to Claudia Gadelha and Tatiana Suarez, but then she won six by beating Marina Rodriguez (Marina Rodriguez vs Carla Esparza), Nghiem Tieu Nam (Xiaonan Yan vs. Carla Esparza) and Rose Namajunas in her final three seasons (Rose Namajunas vs Carla Esparza 2).
Weili Zhang’s record
Her opponent, former Ufc champion Weili Zhang, has the record 22-3-0 (82% completion rate) and she entered No.3 in the women’s straw weight class.
She has lost two matches in a row in 2021, both against Rose Namajunas (4 star match, Weili Zhang vs Rose Namajunas I and Rose Namajunas vs Weili Zhang II), but then she returned to win against Joanna Jedrzejczyk in June 2022 (Weili Zhang vs Joanna Jedrzejczyk 2).
Among the Zhang’s best fights we also recommend these two, both rated with four stars:
Battle card
Here’s the full UFC 281 fight card (we’ll update it after deliberation):
KEY CARD (directly on PPV)
Israel Adesanya vs Alex Pereira
Carla Esparza vs Weili Zhang
Dustin Poirier vs Michael Chandler
Frankie Edgar vs Chris Gutierrez
Dan Hooker vs Claudio Puelles
PRINCIPAL TRIAL (live on ESPNews / ESPN+)
Renato Moicano Carneiro vs Brad Riddell
Ryan Spann vs Dominick Reyes
Erin Blanchfield vs Molly McCann
Wellington Turman vs Andre Petroski
EARLY TRIAL (live on ESPN+ / UFC Fight Pass)
Matt Frevola vs. Ottman Azaitar
Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs Silvana Gomez Juarez
Seung Woo Choi vs. Michael Trizano
Montel Jackson vs Julio Arce
Nicolae Negumereanu vs Carlos Ulberg
Countdown – Video Preview
Watch the official video of the full UFC 281 Carla Esparza vs Weili Zhang countdown, a documentary to get a better look at the lives of both fighters and how they prepared for their fights.
Full/Featured Match Video
Here we will post a collection of the best videos of Carla Esparza vs Weili Zhang match right after the match is over. If you watched the full battle, you can rate it at the end of this post. (All videos are hosted on free video platforms like Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook etc and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights.com)
Official Highlights – Spanish
Result
Who won the match Esparza vs Zhang?
Weili Zhang defeated Carla Esparza by submission (back nude choke) at 1:05, 2nd round.
Interview after the battle
Hear the words of a winner or two boxers after their bout, here’s Carla Esparza and Weili Zhang’s UFC 281 post-fight octagon interview.
