Zhang Weili Smiled At Carla Esparza's Punches 'Because I Felt Nothing' | UFC 281 | MMA Fighting
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#UFC strawweight champion Zhang Weili spoke to reporters after her #UFC281 title win over Carla Esparza, how the fight played out, her thoughts on her next title challenger, and more.
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She did not say "I felt nothing." She stated that she did not feel the threats from the punches (for being put into a position of danger). Big difference!
@tonyswe9463
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Well said.
@jasper_of_puppets
Жыл бұрын
Close enough. The word "méishì" was said in a very dismissive manner, as if to say, "i felt like it was nothing". The word "méishì" could also be equated to the english saying: "no big deal"
@quinndelcarmen1384
Жыл бұрын
@@jasper_of_puppets when i use 没事 it's usually to say something like "it wasn't much", as in it was something, but not enough to really worry about. that's different from saying "it's nothing". i think a more accurate translation in this context is weili meaning it as the equivalent of "no problem" or "no worries" :P
@chrisgarcia7091
Жыл бұрын
which basically means she felt nothing 😅
@jasper_of_puppets
Жыл бұрын
@@chrisgarcia7091 Seriously. These donks in the comments are being way too pedantic. I suppose it figures Asians would be overly obsessed with academic precision 🤣
Weili's grappling was so slick those transitions into the crucifix's were deadly! Beast
She’s such a humble woman!
Very poor choice of words from this "translator." She said she felt fine & there was no threat, she didn't say she felt nothing... Zhang is a very humble warrior and being cocky isn't her style. Not sure why these poor translator always making her sound so cocky. So annoying. It also not helping her to get more fans with these kind of poor translation.
@CloseYourBrownEyes
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Hire actual professional translaters!
@boogerking2185
Жыл бұрын
I kinda like the translator tbh. Unlike asian countries, westerns like hype and translator exactly translate the hype elements into it. She needs this kind of translator if she wants to be even more popular internationally, as long as chinese people understands that she does speak humbly
@OhGeeGanksta
Жыл бұрын
@@boogerking2185 For some fighters, yes. But she was never the heel in her career. In fact, if she fights Rose again, she can be the face and Rose is more fitting to be the heel.
@YCHTT
Жыл бұрын
@@boogerking2185 He wasn't translating what Weili says often & he was making up stuff and he isn't her manager.
@123mathtutorabc4
Жыл бұрын
@@YCHTT and neither are you. If you can do a better job than the translator, then take his job
I agree. The translator was horrible. I don’t think anyone will misunderstand Weili as being arrogant or cocky though.
@danieltan4284
Жыл бұрын
I'm a big fan of weili and I am native tongue of Chinese. man, I hate this bloody translator as he always always always said something weili did not say which always make her seem arrogant to me, her nice and humble personality is just twisted by him.this one is an example too, she did not say 'I felt nothing', she just didn't
@PyroCham
Жыл бұрын
I honestly don't blame him. If anything, you should blame the UFC. This man that is translating is one of her coaches, I believe. By the way, the translator they previously hired was terrible as well. So hopefully they will hire someone better this time around. Especially since there are a bunch of Chinese fighters on the roster now.
@danieltan4284
Жыл бұрын
@@PyroCham same here, i dont blame this guy in general, i believe he must play some important part in her team. just the translation is ridiculous, and he put words in weili's mouth, that is a disater. UFC should do something about it. Plus i noticed this problem has been there for logn time, translation for leech and other chinese player was horrible too
@AnarchyJesus
Жыл бұрын
他好像想故意翻译的狠一点
@todaywaspretty6309
Жыл бұрын
Translator should also be more fluent in English imo. There's a lot of nuanced words in English that isnt properly translated as well as nuanced Chinese words that aren't properly translated.
So happy for Weili she got her belt back , we love Weili
@onlygod5667
Жыл бұрын
Weili was robbed on the second fight with rose.
Somewhere Rose was eyeballing the fight while covered in a blanket muttering: "I'm the best!"
@pauldavis5665
Жыл бұрын
Well, Rose did beat Zhang twice, so if she is still saying "I'm the best" then she has a valid point.
@robertocarlos2934
Жыл бұрын
"You hear all those people booin'? You hear 'em? That means you're doing good!" 😂😂😂
@silence-humility-calmness
Жыл бұрын
@@pauldavis5665 it is quite astonishing how rose indeed looks like a delicate flower, yet she beat the monster zang, twice
@pauldavis5665
Жыл бұрын
@@silence-humility-calmness lol, true. Just looking at them both you would think Zhang could just snap her in half easily.
@silence-humility-calmness
Жыл бұрын
@@pauldavis5665 umph!!
Zhang switch team is the best thing she did for her career. Previous team did not know what they were doing. She is very talented. Love to see her run it back with Namajunas. The first fight she clearly lost. The second fight she should won but got cheated. I know she will knock Rose out this time around and going forward. Her new team did amazing job with her. Saw major improvement.
@edwinverzosa7655
Жыл бұрын
Weili trophy heads Jessica Andrade Joanna jedrezcyk (2X) Carla Esparza If she redeems herself against rose, weili can say she has defeated every strawweight champion and will target valentina Strawweight fights she wants Amanda lemos For ppv in china Weili cs yan xiaonan makes it marketable
@MrAmarayub
Жыл бұрын
Henry made her loss haha
@markop.3460
Жыл бұрын
@@edwinverzosa7655 True. To become the best pound for pound, she also needs to beat Chevchenko and Nunes. It's a tall order. I think she can do it if she continues to improve as she has been doing lately.
@markop.3460
Жыл бұрын
@@MrAmarayub She won the 2nd fight with Rose. Dana White even thought so.
@wolftotem2367
Жыл бұрын
@@MrAmarayub bengap haha
There are so many pro Chinese translator especially here in nyc, but they gotta screw her with these bad translations. They making her sound so cocky and disrespectful. The F?
This translator is fantastic!
@wd1534
Жыл бұрын
because you don't understand chinese. She didn't say that
@indeficit2
Жыл бұрын
You kidding? This guy should be fired! First of all, she never said "I felt nothing." smh
Thank goodness we can all forget about Carla and Rose for a good bit now
have to protest as weili literally did not say it. that was a total mistranslation
@jasper_of_puppets
Жыл бұрын
He paraphrased
@danieltan4284
Жыл бұрын
@@jasper_of_puppets and he put words in weili's mouth when she did not say it
@jasper_of_puppets
Жыл бұрын
@@danieltan4284 eh, méishì
She said “..she did not feel worried (or threatened) after feeling Carla’s punches…” People may take the translation as “cocky/arrogant”. Hopefully the translator was not intending this. It’s tough to translate “on the fly”, especially since Wei Li speaks very well and is very “concise”, not to mention long statements/sentences.
I love Weili! Hope she incorporates English as part of her training regimen so she can express herself as directly and purely with words as she does with her martial arts.
@bosun120
Жыл бұрын
She was practicing English daily with a professional teacher, but that was prior to the pandemic. The teacher had to return home.
@alinazang6651
Жыл бұрын
That will probably be harder for her than to stay on top.
I understand, because of politics BS, you might wanna hate on Weili. But that's so hard to do because she is really a great human being.
@jonevicangco715
Жыл бұрын
It’s also a race thing. You won’t see blacks, Hispanics, or Arabs hating on Weili. She is judged by her individualities not by her skin color, place of origin, or the politics of her government
@jordandennis6794
Жыл бұрын
Nobody cares. She's not the Chinese government is she?
4:49 LOL!!!!
Put her on the Perth card in February, probably the closest to a "home" crowd she will get at the moment (unless they go back to Singapore).
@jettekko5044
Жыл бұрын
Does Perth have many Chinese people?
@bosun120
Жыл бұрын
@@jettekko5044 AFAIK, there's a sizeable Chinese population in Australia. I'm sure many would travel there to see her compete.
@jettekko5044
Жыл бұрын
@@bosun120 I envy them so much
when you feel nothing its the body saying we worked hard and can confirm confidence we are going to win. i had so much adrenaline confidence that i smoked a few of my mma matches and can say i didnt feel their punches.
Zhang Weili is an amazing role model for future Champs! Welcome back to your throne Champ Weili!
Carla Esparza was the most non-deservant of a Championship Belt. The first she received for being TUF Winner and the second for the worst fight in UFC History.
I agree: the translation was bad.
You guys in the comments are making too big a deal out of the translation. Yes, the literal translation is that Weili said she felt fine. But the word "méishì" was said in a very dismissive manner, as if to say, "i felt like it was nothing". The word "méishì" could also be equated to the english saying: "no big deal"
@quinndelcarmen1384
Жыл бұрын
sure but "no big deal" isn't the same as "nothing".
@jasper_of_puppets
Жыл бұрын
@@quinndelcarmen1384 Close enough. From what Weili said in Mandarin, you can extrapolate it to mean that she "felt nothing" after been hit by Carla.
i was rooting for Zhang, feel bad for Carla.
@BingDwenDwen
Жыл бұрын
It's part of the game, no need to feel sorry, I don't think Carla even feel sorry for herself, you win some, you lose some, thats life.
@DJin317
Жыл бұрын
@@BingDwenDwen I mean I just feel bad that her 2 first title defenses were Joanna Jerdjezchek and Zhang Weili. A Woman's MMA GOAT and Someone with all the potential and momentum currently to reach that status.
@jordandennis6794
Жыл бұрын
Why. She had one of the worst fights in MMA history. She deserved to lose
@DJin317
Жыл бұрын
@@jordandennis6794 it takes 2 people to fight... if you want to get technical about it. In that fight there were only 65 punches thrown and Esparza threw 35 of them, so in reality esparza did more. if you want to get mad at anyone get mad at rose and pat berry, terrible coaching and Rose was too scared to engage in fear of getting taken down.
I'm not into womens mma really but I'm impressed by her confident spirited attitude that u dont usually see with se asian fighters, she has sort of bolo yeung energy n i like to see it #justsayin
The translator is from TianJing…. 😂
“I feel nathing.” Zhang Weilimagedemov
张伟丽nb
Horrible translator
carla had nothing
1
Wish she would learn English. Asian people may hear something different and English people told something different.
Weili needs to learn English and get rid of the translator
@asianconnection7701
Жыл бұрын
U need to learn mandarin/Chinese.
@wd1534
Жыл бұрын
She just needs to have a better translator. Not to learn English. You need to learn chinese as I did. It's a beautiful language.
@arkane7403
Жыл бұрын
Her English is improving a lot and sometimes she responds without the translator so hopefully soon!
@Jackson.T
Жыл бұрын
Helen Yee for translator!
Aggghh....we lost the belt ! Wish it stayed with USA. Well....she did win fair and square, I suppose. And Esparza fought as hard as she could- all these biased fans ranting about how she was going to get " obliterated " ate some humble pie. A victory would've REALLY proved that point, but Esparza lasted past Round 1, and that's more than those fans thought she could do.
@iamjulian2810
Жыл бұрын
Who is « we »? You do realize the majority of America wanted Carla to lose right? Lmfao. And she did get obliterated what are you talking about, she got pieced up on the feet, the striking difference was night and day, and just like the entire world knew she was gonna try to make it into a wrestling/grappling exchange, which was stupid considering how much physically stronger zhang is compared to her, she literally lost at her own game which everyone thought was her best bet 😂.
@peterretep1010
Жыл бұрын
Stop using politics in everything. Nobody like Carla in the US. Everyone knows that fight with rose was a scammed. Rose deserved to lose and Carla deserve to lose too. Should’ve been vacant. Smh
I wonder what she thinks about CCP, Taiwan, Uyghurs.
第一个听口气是央视的 自以为是根葱!问题浅陋毫无意义
Man I really hate that ladyboy woman Strawweight champ. No one likes that thing
let's go 🇨🇳
Everyone should speak the same language..........
@musiccitymadman2023
Жыл бұрын
I wish that were true. They should have to learn English. Because it's spoken through out most countries
又是这个烂翻译,好恶心
早就看出来卡拉不是对手,又老又慢又没力量,赢之有啥好庆祝的