UFC’s Zhang Weili gives Hong Kong MMA star Ramona Pascual seal of approval for 26-second TKO
- After two years out with injury, UFC Academy hopeful Pascual makes up for lost time with fourth career win
- China’s first UFC champion is on hand to watch the Shanghai Performance Institute star and give congratulations
It didn’t take Hong Kong fighter Ramona Pascual long to work out whether her comeback would be worth all the effort.
Bang on 26 seconds, in fact.
That’s the amount of time it took Pascual to land the blows that led to a TKO over Russia’s Yulia Kutsenko this past Friday – and to consign two years of struggle to history.
“It feels incredible,” Pascual says. “It was just something that I had visualised in my head so many times. Sitting in that hospital bed, post-knee surgery and thinking about how I wanted to come back. I know what it’s like to lose it all so this process has been all or nothing. I just wanted it so bad. It came to be in a second that I was finally there, at the moment I had visualised for two years. I remember smiling. There was just so much joy.”
And that was even before she won.