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  • [radio playing]

  • [ambient traffic noise]

  • [gym chatter]

  • >> Before, training, I elbow-- boop.

  • I-- my elbow goes here. Cut-- cut.

  • This blood, have blood.

  • But no finish, no stop.

  • Here blood, no finish.

  • Padwork.

  • Here.

  • Yes, here.

  • [beeping]

  • >> Something that you guys need to know about Weili

  • is she is a martial artist to the bone.

  • Like, this is what she does.

  • She doesn't go out shopping.

  • She doesn't do anything else.

  • [grunting]

  • >> Ruben: She likes her life structured

  • and her training structured just like that.

  • So, you'll see everything's planned out, her exercises,

  • what she gets very comfortable with, are planned out.

  • And we stay within our-- we stay within our box for that.

  • >> Weili: I miss China.

  • I miss my home and Fedor.

  • Yes, I miss my dog, my cat.

  • My dog is named Fedor.

  • So big.

  • >> Israel: Alright.

  • Alright.

  • Ready to work.

  • Shake all that ick-- all that media [bleep].

  • It's where you take on people's energies,

  • where you have to interact constantly.

  • You have to, like, engage.

  • >> Frank: Pretty simple. It's Fight Week.

  • It's a little more relaxed, but so focused on everything.

  • Focused on what Israel's good at,

  • not necessarily what he can do but what we can do.

  • >> Eugene: Find the right jab.

  • >> Yeah, it's almost there.

  • There we go.

  • >> Mike: In my opinion, this is possibly his hardest fight,

  • not from a coaching point of view

  • and an athletics point of view.

  • You know, this is the same as if we're fighting

  • in a small club, you know, somewhere in Auckland.

  • Ultimately, it's two guys trying to punch each other in the face,

  • and we just have to keep it down to that level of simplicity.

  • The hype can distract you from getting the job done

  • against a guy who's pretty dangerous.

  • >> Israel: Main thing is just getting to the fight.

  • It's the main thing. I feel [bleep] great.

  • You can't get caught in the lights of Vegas like a moth.

  • That's how they get you.

  • That's how they get you.

  • [crowd chatter]

  • [grunting]

  • >> She's looking fine tonight, sharper than ever.

  • She improved a lot of her power, you know.

  • [grunting]

  • >> Katel: She's very focused on what she has to do.

  • She enjoys this.

  • That's the best thing.

  • She really enjoys the week of the fight.

  • >> Best ever.

  • I was the champ for 966 days.

  • Tie this record and we can talk.

  • Right now bow down to the queen.

  • [chatter]

  • >> You have to love her, right?

  • >> Joanna: You wanna finish me?

  • I will [bleep] finish you.

  • ♪♪

  • You'll see Saturday.

  • ♪♪

  • I'm gonna [bleep] win.

  • >> Man: When they come out, you lead them, yeah.

  • >> Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

  • >> Just go up front, okay. >> Okay, sure.

  • >> Megan: Now to kick off all the action

  • at Fight Night UFC 248 open workouts.

  • And the first person to the stage

  • is your UFC strawweight world champion: Zhang Weili.

  • [cheering]

  • ♪♪

  • >> Weili:

  • [cheering]

  • >> Yes, very good.

  • Wow, amazing!

  • I feel very good.

  • >> Megan: Please welcome Joanna Jedrzejczyk!

  • [cheering]

  • >> You'll always be the champ!

  • >> Joanna, she said she's--

  • >> Joanna: She's going to knock me out?

  • This is what I was missing in my last fight.

  • Know when I step in the octagon, you know,

  • and I always walk like this.

  • I was like, "Ooh, JJ. It's time."

  • And the thing is I need this sports violence.

  • You know, I need this aggression.

  • So her saying this, that's what's up, you know.

  • Jessica Andrade said the same,

  • that she was going to knock me out.

  • These girls, they look muscular.

  • They look so powerful.

  • She has this power, you know.

  • But I know how to avoid it.

  • And I wanna make her quit and beg me to stop, you know.

  • And this is what's going to happen.

  • I think we're going to put on hell of a fight and it's gonna

  • be the best strawweight fight in UFC history.

  • >> Thank you!

  • >> Do that backflip again!

  • [cheering]

  • >> Megan: --out of American Top Team--

  • [cheering]

  • >> Yoel, if you win this fight, you'll be the oldest fighter

  • to win a UFC belt for the first time at 42.

  • What does that mean for you?

  • >> Yoel:

  • [cheering]

  • >> Crowd: Knock him out! >> Yoel: What!

  • >> Crowd: Knock him out! >> Yoel: What!

  • >> Crowd: Knock him out! >> Yoel: What!

  • >> Crowd: Knock him out! >> Yes I can!

  • Yes I can!

  • [whistling]

  • >> I'm sorry. >> Are we good?

  • Ready to go?

  • >> Israel: It's my first pay per view headliner in America.

  • [cheering]

  • >> Israel: I feel good.

  • I feel like this is where it's supposed to be.

  • It's the mecca of fighting.

  • It's Las Vegas.

  • This is the big show.

  • [cheering]

  • >> Israel: I wanna be active. I wanna be fighting.

  • You know, I'm a guy when I said I really wanna fight

  • four times a year, you've seen me do it before.

  • You've seen me do it five times.

  • I wanna be an active champion.

  • I wanna do right by the division,

  • like GSP did at welterweight.

  • Like Demetrious did at flyweight.

  • Like Anderson did at middleweight.

  • I wanna make the middleweight division great, man.

  • [cheering]

  • >> Who knows how to kick properly?

  • You right there?

  • You know how to kick?

  • Come up, who else? Come up! Come up!

  • Give him a hand! Give him a hand!

  • Stand right here.

  • I want five kicks.

  • Boom, that's one.

  • Alright, I need more hips.

  • Charge it up.

  • One more, ah! That's it.

  • Give him a hand! Give him a hand!

  • You step up. Five now, ready?

  • I want it strong.

  • He might have you beat, bro.

  • One more.

  • Oh!

  • [cheering]

  • >> I think we have a winner.

  • Step down, we got something.

  • You got tickets to the fight. You don't?

  • You got tickets to the fight now.

  • You got tickets to the fight?

  • They're both coming to the fight.

  • Alright, let's go!

  • [cheering]

  • That was a mic drop, I'm out.