{"id":29172,"date":"2025-08-28T05:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/walker-knocks-out-zhang-in-shanghai-surprise-at-ufc-fight-night-4\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:29:21","slug":"walker-knocks-out-zhang-in-shanghai-surprise-at-ufc-fight-night-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mma\/walker-knocks-out-zhang-in-shanghai-surprise-at-ufc-fight-night-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker Knocks Out Zhang in Shanghai: Surprise at UFC Fight Night!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Johnny Walker Shocks Zhang Mingyang in Shanghai<\/h2>\n\nIn a stellar event that marked the return of the UFC to China after six years, Johnny Walker starred in a shocking technical knockout (TKO) victory over Zhang Mingyang in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Shanghai.\n\nWalker, after a streak of two consecutive knockout losses, achieved a spectacular comeback in the second round, frustrating the celebration of Zhang Mingyang, who was performing before his home crowd.\n\nThe fight, which took place on Saturday, saw 33-year-old Walker end an impressive streak of 12 consecutive victories by Zhang, who hadn&#8217;t lost an MMA match since 2019 and hadn&#8217;t seen a second round since 2018.\n\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 TKO\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Johnny Walker&#8217;s TKO victory in the second round over Zhang Mingyang in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Shanghai ended Zhang Mingyang&#8217;s 12-fight winning streak.<\/em>\n\nZhang dominated the first round, connecting significant strikes and forcing Walker to retreat. However, Walker readjusted his strategy in the second round, focusing on calf kicks. A precise kick visibly affected Zhang, followed by a second that knocked him down. Walker seized the opportunity to finish the fight with ground-and-pound at 2:37 of the second round.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My kick is amazing, right?<\/p><cite>Johnny Walker<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWalker also dedicated a few words to the audience in Chinese and expressed his respect for Zhang.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A tough fighter from China, many wins in a row. It&#8217;s a very good experience to fight against a guy who is very tough. You see, I&#8217;m resilient. I took some hits to the face today and kept going, and then I got it. This is MMA. Amazing, right?<\/p><cite>Johnny Walker<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nWalker, currently ranked number 13 in the official UFC rankings, defeated Zhang, who holds the next position.\n\n<h2>Aljamain Sterling Dominates 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&#8217;s failure to make the 146-pound division weight limit.\n\nSterling, former bantamweight champion, demonstrated superiority over Ortega, who only landed 7% of his strikes in the first round and was a step behind throughout the fight.\n\nSterling, ranked number 9, achieved his second victory in his last three fights, while Ortega suffered his second consecutive defeat.\n\n<h2>Sergei Pavlovich Dominates Waldo Cortes-Acosta<\/h2>\n\nIn another featured fight, Sergei Pavlovich, number 6 in the rankings, defeated Waldo Cortes-Acosta, number 9, by unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28).\n\nPavlovich has won eight of his last ten fights.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Walker Shocks Zhang Mingyang in Shanghai In a stellar event that marked the return of the UFC to China after six years, Johnny Walker starred in a shocking technical knockout (TKO) victory over Zhang Mingyang in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Shanghai. Walker, after a streak of two consecutive knockout losses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7674,4812,228,7675],"class_list":{"0":"post-29172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-johnny-walker","9":"tag-shanghai","10":"tag-ufc","11":"tag-zhang-mingyang"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172","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=29172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}