One Championship: Zhang Weili’s only conqueror, Meng Bo, eyes a shot at Angela Lee
- Meng talks her 2013 win against the future UFC champion, who has since gone on a 21-0 tear
- Now in One Championship, Meng is looking to earn a crack at atomweight queen Angela Lee
Meng Bo knows something that no one else in the history of professional mixed martial arts knows. She knows what it feels like to beat Zhang Weili.
We went back to where it all began and we tracked down the now-23-year-old Meng who did something that now seems all the more remarkable – she handed “Magnum” her only pro loss to date, a two-round decision as the headline event of the CMMAL China MMA League event held on November 9, 2013 in the Chinese city of Xuchang in central Henan province. Meng was just 17 at the time.
“There are not so many memories about that fight since it was several years ago,” is Meng’s initial reaction, before she digs a little deeper. “But I remember she was a tough opponent and she deserved my respect.”
Since that night in Xuchang, Zhang has ripped her way through every opponent she has faced in the Chinese domestic leagues, before signing on with the UFC and doing pretty much the same there.