Chinese MMA fighter Xu Xiaodong follows 10-second win vs tai chi master by calling out online impostor
- Controversial figure returns to the cage with brief fight against tai chi master Chen Yong
- ‘Mad Dog’ later points out to followers that someone is pretending to be him online, despite his ban from Chinese social media
Fresh from his winning return to the cage last week, controversial Chinese MMA star Xu Xiaodong has taken to exposing another kind of fraud: someone posing as him online.
Xu, who has taken it upon himself to expose fraudulent kung fu masters by fighting them, posted on Twitter that a user claiming to be him on Douyin – the Chinese-language version of TikTok – was in fact an impostor.
Writing in Chinese on Twitter on Saturday morning, “Mad Dog” Xu showed a picture of the account along with the message: “I‘m sorry to tell everyone that this is not me.”
Xu is censored on Chinese social media, with searches for him on Weibo bringing up the error message, “ According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, search results for ‘Xu Xiaodong’ were not displayed.”
The fighter returned to action with a long-delayed fight against tai chi master Chen Yong in the mountains of Guangdong province last weekend. He uploaded footage to his YouTube channel afterwards.
“At the end of 2018, Chen Yong challenged me on Shenzhen Satellite TV. I accepted the challenge,” Xu wrote on YouTube.
