Zhang Weili is now the next title challenger at strawweight after scoring a huge knockout at UFC 275. After the fight, she made a proposal to current champion Carla Esparza for when they should meet in the cage.

Carla Esparza actually ended up missing the knockout live and has yet to watch the full fight from UFC 275. Zhang Weili actually surprised her with how quickly she was able to find the finish in the fight.

“I was on my way back from an event. It actually came on earlier than I expected. I didn’t catch it,” Esparza told The New York Post. “And then when we did get in, it was really hard trying to load the fight. We kept trying to buy it, and it wasn’t working. I caught the highlight, and I definitely plan to watch it. Obviously, if I ended up fighting Weili, I can’t not watch her most recent fight.”

Zhang Weili proposed a fight with Carla Esparza in October since the UFC is coming to Abu Dhabi. The current champion is not in a rush to return and wants to make sure she does what she wants to do first.

“That was honestly a big regret of mine, letting the pressure push me into jumping back so quickly after having gone through so much fighting [on] ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’ ” Esparza said. “That was my fifth fight in eight months. It’s really draining. That was a big regret of mine, not letting myself recover a little bit and jumping straight back into it because feeling pressured and wanting to make the UFC happy. But in the end, if I’m losing my title, then what was it all worth anyway?”

“I definitely don’t feel like I’m in a position where I should rush just because Weili wants a certain date,” she said. “I’m not trying to go on her timeline. I’m the champion, and I feel she needs to go on my timeline.”