#road-to-ufc

#road-to-ufc

Featherweights Yi Zha and Westin Wilson were the third fight in on Saturday's UFC Shanghai preliminary card. China's Zha, quite obviously with the crowd behind him on Saturday, was a Road to UFC winner who was looking to bounce back from a loss to Gabriel Santos. Wilson, meanwhile, had actually requested to fight overseas in China, a decision he would ultimately live to regret, not far into Saturday's opening round.

I kind of anticipated it. I made a solid effort not to look at the betting numbers or anything in the lead-up to the fight, but when I first got given the opponent's name and I looked, it was 11-0. I was like, okay, chances are people are going to assume that this guy is going to win,