{"id":28012,"date":"2025-08-25T05:24:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/walker-surprises-zhang-with-ko-in-shanghai-ufc-fight-night\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:24:46","slug":"walker-surprises-zhang-with-ko-in-shanghai-ufc-fight-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/walker-surprises-zhang-with-ko-in-shanghai-ufc-fight-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker surprises Zhang with KO in Shanghai: UFC Fight Night"},"content":{"rendered":"Johnny Walker scored a surprising victory over Zhang Mingyang in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Shanghai, China.\n\n<h2>Walker Surprises with a KO in the Second Round<\/h2>\n\nIn the first UFC event in China in six years, Walker, after a streak of two knockout losses, achieved an impressive technical knockout (TKO) in the second round against the Chinese light heavyweight.\n\nThe 33-year-old Brazilian fighter ended a 12-fight winning streak for Zhang, who hadn&#8217;t lost an MMA fight since 2019 and hadn&#8217;t seen a second round since 2018.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0823%2Fr1535576_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Walker en el evento UFC Fight Night en Shangh\u00e1i\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nIn the image, the moment Johnny Walker celebrates his TKO victory in the second round against Zhang Mingyang is appreciated.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My kick is incredible, right?<\/p><cite>Johnny Walker<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nZhang dominated the first round, connecting significant blows and putting Walker on the defensive. However, Walker changed his strategy in the second round, focusing on calf kicks. A precise kick affected Zhang, followed by a second that knocked him down. Walker (22-9, 1 NC) took advantage to finish the fight with ground strikes at 2:37 of the second round.\n\nWalker also addressed the crowd in Chinese and showed respect for Zhang (19-7).\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A tough fighter from China, with many consecutive victories. It&#8217;s a great experience to fight someone so tough. I am resilient. I took some hits today and kept going, and then I got it. This is MMA. Amazing, right?<\/p><cite>Johnny Walker<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nWalker is ranked number 13 in the official UFC rankings, while Zhang is one place below.\n\n<h2>Aljamain Sterling Defeats Brian Ortega<\/h2>\n\nIn the co-main event, Aljamain Sterling defeated Brian Ortega by unanimous decision in a catchweight bout at 153 pounds, due to Ortega failing to make the 146-pound division weight.\n\nSterling (25-5), former bantamweight champion, proved to be faster than Ortega (16-5, 1 NC), who only landed 7% of his strikes in the first round.\n\nSterling, number 9 in the ranking, achieved his second victory in his last three fights. For Ortega, it was his second consecutive defeat and the fifth in his last seven fights.\n\n<h2>Sergei Pavlovich Wins Over Waldo Cortes-Acosta<\/h2>\n\nIn another featured fight, Sergei Pavlovich defeated Waldo Cortes-Acosta by unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28), dominating the third round.\n\nPavlovich has won eight of his last 10 fights.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Walker scored a surprising victory over Zhang Mingyang in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Shanghai, China. Walker Surprises with a KO in the Second Round In the first UFC event in China in six years, Walker, after a streak of two knockout losses, achieved an impressive technical knockout (TKO) in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7674,898,4812,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-28012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-johnny-walker","9":"tag-knockout","10":"tag-shanghai","11":"tag-ufc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}