‘We’re all martial artists here’: Most moving UFC post-fight speeches – Zhang Weili, Brock Lesnar, and Conor McGregor’s ‘Dana, 60 Gs baby’

UFC post-fight interviews tend to provide memorable sound bites as adrenaline is still running high from the fight which has just finished in the Octagon.

The post-fight speeches tend to be far more authentic than the prepared press conferences.

There can still be ample trash talk and some bizarre one-liners (see: Derrick Lewis, UFC heavyweight fighter: “[My stomach is] not hurting from the kick, I just gotta boo boo]”, but every now and then, the fans are given some real tear-jerkers.

Zhang Weili: ‘We are not the tyrants’

China’s Zhang Weili successfully defended her UFC women’s strawweight title against Polish rival Joanna Jedrzejczyk, winning a split decision in a brutal five-round contest at UFC 248 in Las Vegas on Sunday morning (Hong Kong time), after which both fighters had to be taken to hospital.

The undefeated champion said, “We’re all martial artists here. No trash talking in the Octagon. We’re all champions. I want to show a good example for the kids. We are the champions. We are not the tyrants.”

Rose Namajunas: ‘Just be a good person, that’s it’

Another mixed martial artist who beat Joanna Jedrzejczyk was Rose Namajunas at UFC 217 in New York. Jedrzejczyk was attempting to defend her strawweight title, but lost in a first-round knockout.

Namajunas said in her post-fight interview: “There’s so much crap going on in the media, news and stuff, and I just want to try and use my gift of martial arts to try and make this world a better place and change the world. This belt … don’t mean nothing, man. Just be a good person, that’s it. You know, this [belt] is extra. This is awesome but let’s just give each other hugs and be nice, man. I mean, I know we fight but this is entertainment. Afterwards, it’s nothing.”