This weekend, the headlines belong to Zhang Weili.
On the other side of the ocean, Zhang Weili defeated the current women's strawweight champion Cara Espaza and regained the gold belt that had been lost for a year and a half.
This most capable woman has won the gold belt for China for the third time.
The king has returned, and he deserves it. Social media was once again boiling over her.
In 2019, she defeated her opponent in 42 seconds and became the first UFC world champion in Asia; in 2020, she successfully defended her title and created a glory in China's fighting history.
Unprecedented achievements are enough to become the pride of the Chinese people, but her popularity and praise are not just because she is the champion.
is even more because we can get strength from her.
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She was born in rural Hebei and, like many people, was once a migrant tribe in Beijing. Having been a kindergarten teacher, hotel front desk, security guard, gym sales...
But through personal struggle, she has reached the top of the world from an unknown person.
She goes to the gym to train at 6 o'clock every morning, and practices until 12 o'clock after get off work.
Who can imagine that a gym that sells flyers on the street every day, without any chance of competition, insists on hitting sandbags until the fist is bleeding.
Until during the training process, she met Bole, a promoter of MMA, Cai Xuejun, who took her into an amateur competition and then punched her to the world's highest arena of MMA.
This is a story of ordinary people’s counterattack. In addition to talent, hard work, they also have self-discipline.
Those who help themselves will help God.
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"Why do a girl fight and kill all day long?"
Since she learned Sanda as a child, Zhang Weili has such a voice in her ears.
After she became famous, someone said on the Internet that can such a violent woman still find a partner? She responded humorously: We want money to hit others, have you given the money? I also want to be beaten.
Someone said she didn't look like a "woman", and she retorted: I'm not a woman, what you say doesn't count, what a woman should be like, and what you say doesn't count.
She seizes various opportunities and uses her influence to improve the prejudice and pride of this society towards gender.
The movie "Wrestle, Dad" has a line: "Your victory is not yours alone, but a role model for all girls who are unwilling to face pots and pans for the rest of their lives."
Like Zhang Weili, ordinary women can also break secular prejudice, love freedom, and have no limits.
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is different from athletes in the system. Zhang Weili is engaged in professional fighting and has to bear all the expenses himself. Before reaching the top of the world, I lacked attention and received too much resource support. Once you are injured and unable to play, you will face the dilemma of not having an income.
Working in the gym, with a stable income and still able to make a living. Join a professional fighting club, and there is no income without competitions. However, Zhang Weili made a choice that ordinary people could not make.
Just as she said: Because of love, I became who I am today.
In real life, the pursuit of love and supporting a family is likely to be contradictory.
But if you have the chance, please choose to take a step towards "pursuing love" instead of staying away.
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In the eyes of the outside world, Zhang Weili was experiencing a trough in her career.
In April 2021, facing challenger Ross Namayunas, she was KOed in 78 seconds, lost her belt, and suffered an unprecedented blow; in November, in the second match with Ross, the two fought for five games, and she lost again.
However, her sentence "Only by defeating a great champion can one become a legend, and if defeating a legend, I will become a brand new self", declared the girl's strength, not only external.
Facing the uneven wind and wind of failure does not mean that she chooses to lie flat. After Zhang Weili took back the gold belt, she said in an interview that she had never stopped learning and making progress. In order to seek breakthroughs, "I compete with myself every day."
Folubert said that the most glorious day in a person's life is not the day of success or fame.Instead, the day when a challenge to life arises from lament and despair, and moves towards will with a brave heart.
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"The sky laughs, and the world is full of tides. Whoever loses will win, God knows." This song "A Laugh in the Sea" is Zhang Weili's favorite song.
After the game, a netizen posted a comment: "The arena is life, and life is also a ring. Life can fail, but you must never give up. I think this is what I learned from Zhang Weili."
May each of us draw the strength to move forward from Zhang Weili.
New Yellow River Client Reporter: Zheng Chuqiao Editor: Zheng Chuqiao
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