There are several countries around the world that home ultra talented fighters. Many of which are just waiting for their proper opportunities to burst onto a worldwide scale and gain maximum notoriety. With an entire nation aiding in support, it’s hard not to find motivation.
One of the biggest possible support systems that a fighter could have in terms of the country is that of China… which, in fact, would make for the absolute biggest as the nation holds the largest population in the world with 1.4 billion residents.
Obviously, that could make for an incredible amount of weight and pressure to put on a single individuals shoulders to lead the way for the rest. But for MMA in 2019, multiple athletes are starting to make some serious noise from the land of the dragon.
Having started competing professionally the most recently in comparison to her UFC counterparts in Weili Zhang and Yan Xiaonan, is ‘The Panda’ Xiong Jing Nan. Despite that, she’s gone on to achieve the best success in the shortest amount of time.
Debuting in August 2014, Jing Nan joined the notable Chinese MMA promotion, Kunlun Fights where she took on Inna Hutsul and won via first-round armbar in just 51 seconds. In her two bouts that followed, two knockouts would be added to her resume thus providing a good sample size for what the future held.
It would be five straight fights and five straight victories via finish for the Jining native all of which came in the span of eight months. In Jing Nan’s sixth career bout, she would face Colleen Schneider and suffer her first and only career defeat. As rough as the first loss can be, it will act as a make or break type of point in a fighter’s career. There is only one way to go and that’s forward or back… and Jing Nan took the former and went full steam ahead as a strong representative of her country.
“Once you stand on the global stage, you are not only yourself, you carry on the hope of your family, your city, your country and all the people that ever believed in you and supported you no matter what,” Jing Nan told The Body Lock. “I want to tell the world that there’s always hope if you do not give up.”
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