UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang
| UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang | ||||
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 The poster for UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang | ||||
| Promotion | Ultimate Fighting Championship | |||
| Date | August 23, 2025 | |||
| Venue | Shanghai Indoor Stadium | |||
| City | Shanghai, China | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang (also known as UFC Fight Night 257 and UFC on ESPN+ 115) is an upcoming mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that will take place on August 23, 2025, at the Shanghai Indoor Stadium in Shanghai, China.[1]
Background
[edit]The event will mark the promotion's second visit to Shanghai and first since UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Gastelum in November 2017. It will also be the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic that the UFC has returned to Mainland China.[1] The promotion was originally expected to make their return to the location at UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutiérrez in December 2023, before moving that event to Las Vegas due to undisclosed reasons.[2]
A light heavyweight bout between Johnny Walker and Zhang Mingyang is scheduled to headline this event.[3]
Shi Ming and Bruna Brasil were expected to meet in a women's strawweight bout at the event.[4] However, the pairing was pulled in order to serve as the featured bout of the Road to UFC Season 4 semifinals event a day earlier.[5]
Fight card
[edit]| Fight card (ESPN+) | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Light Heavyweight | Johnny Walker | vs. | Zhang Mingyang | ||||
| Featherweight | Brian Ortega | vs. | Aljamain Sterling | ||||
| Heavyweight | Sergei Pavlovich | vs. | Waldo Cortes-Acosta | ||||
| Welterweight | Song Kenan | vs. | Kiefer Crosbie | ||||
| Middleweight | Marco Tulio | vs. | Michel Pereira | ||||
| Light Heavyweight | Uran Satybaldiev | vs. | Diyar Nurgozhay | ||||
| Flyweight | Lone'er Kavanagh | vs. | Charles Johnson | ||||
| Flyweight | Su Mudaerji | vs. | Kevin Borjas | ||||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Farah Hannoun (2025-05-22). "UFC returns to Shanghai in August for Fight Night event". mmajunkie.usatoday.com. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ^ Damon Martin (2023-11-15). "UFC Shanghai card expected to shift to Las Vegas on Dec. 9". mmafighting.com. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ^ Marina Magomedova (2025-05-21). "Source: Walker to fight Zhang on August 23 at UFC Shanghai event". telecomasia.net. Retrieved 2025-05-22.
- ^ Gaspar Bruno (2025-06-12). "Hostile environment! Bruna Brasil faces Chinese rival at UFC Shanghai in August". agfight.com. Retrieved 2025-06-12. (in Brazilian Portuguese)
- ^ Staff (2025-06-25). "UFC returns to Shanghai with a blockbuster main event battle of ranking light heavyweights Johnny Walker (#12) vs Zhang Mingyang (#14)". ufc.com. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
- ^ "UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang". Ultimate Fighting Championship. Retrieved 2025-06-26.
