[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.
[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! >> 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.
>> I know, I know, I know.
Yeah, sorry to ruin your walk-off like that.
I always do that, huh?
So, the buzz, you won the UFC honors,
President's Choice Fight of the Year for 2019.
[cheering]
>> This is crazy, but I wanna give a big shout out
to my dance partner Kelvin Gastelum.
You see that 5th round, that's what [bleep] movies are made of.
I'm telling you, man.
This guy don't have a gas tank like me.
He don't have a reserve, nothing like that.
Tomorrow, call me Megalodon.
I'm the shark, baby.
[theme music]
♪♪