UFC: ‘The Leech’ Li Jingliang guns for title shot after finally cracking welterweight rankings
- ‘He just made it into the top 15 but he should have been in a while ago,’ says Li’s manager Audie Attar
- ‘He’s gonna prove he’s a top 10 contender against Neil Magny, and hopefully fight for a title in the future’
Last week was a momentous one for welterweight Li “The Leech” Jingliang, who became just the fourth Chinese fighter to enter the UFC rankings.
Many feel it was long overdue.
“Leech, he just made it into the top 15 and he’s very deserving. But he should have been in a while ago, in my opinion,” his manager, Audie Attar told the Post Fight Podcast.
The man himself agrees. “I think so, I deserve to be in the rankings,” he told the Post in Macau, where he was watching Legend FC 14 at the MGM Cotai. But he’s not stopping there: “Every fighter, they want to get a championship, so I’m still working hard to get a title shot.”
The 31-year-old is the veteran of Chinese MMA, who cut his teeth in Legend under its old guise before it was relaunched by chairman Matthew Kwok, and Paradigm Sports Management president Attar.