Those that wrote the story of Johnny Walker’s demise seem to have been mistaken, as he was in a position to end Zhang Mingyang in the principle occasion of UFC Shanghai.
As Mingyang put out a hand for a handshake on the struggle’s begin, Walker tried to attain a takedown, just for Mingyang to simply place him on his again. Mingyang managed the motion on the bottom properly earlier than tagging Walker on the ft. Walker responded to a wobbling proper hand by attempting to clinch Mingyang up and take him down. Walker tried to carry his personal energy and use angles, however Mingyang landed a pointy elbow and continued to chop off the cage.
The tempo continued all through the second spherical, with Walker looking for success with the calf kick. One among them did discover that success for him, placing Mingyang in nice ache and sending him to the mat. Walker pounded away with strikes, overwhelming Mingyang, who tried however couldn’t get again to his ft, leading to a second-round TKO.
Johnny Walker Stops Zhang Mingyang in UFC Shanghai Major Occasion
This win snapped a three-fight winless skid for Walker, who had gone to a no-contest and misplaced in opposition to present mild heavyweight champ Magomed Ankalev and was knocked out by Volkan Oezdemir.
Mingyang had entered tonight’s bout with a 12-fight win streak, with all of his wins coming through a first-round end. He was 3-0 within the UFC getting into tonight with wins over Brendson Ribeiro, Ozzy Diaz, and Anthony Smith.