A Night at the UFC
The author attended a UFC event in New York featuring Chinese fighter Zhang Weili, hoping to find interesting personalities among the athletes. Instead of the expected trash talk, the fighters displayed professionalism and spoke about family and faith. Zhang Weili discussed the influence of her Chinese roots on her fighting style and offered advice to young women, while her opponent, Valentina Shevchenko, articulated a vision of fighting as an art form emphasizing technique over brute force. AI
