Former UFC girls’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk may come out of retirement if the chance to compete for the ladies’s BMF title have been to current itself.
“I’ve been speaking to Joanna [Jedrzejczyk] and she or he stated she’d come again,” stated fellow former champion Jessica Andrade instructed MMA Preventing. “If it’s for this [BMF] belt, she would come again. I believe that might be a very good struggle. Joanna, or possibly Angela Hill, who by no means walks away from a struggle and is at all times there preventing everybody. Or Valentina [Shevchenko]. Any of these women can be nice, however I believe it might be particular if it’s Joanna. It could be higher.”
The BMF title stands for “baddest motherf**ker” within the recreation. The primary BMF title struggle happened in November 2019, and it has solely come up twice extra since then. Jorge Masvidal defeated Nate Diaz within the inaugural title struggle. Then Justin Gaethje defeated Dustin Poirier, and most lately Max Holloway defeated Gaethje. There has by no means been a girls’s BMF title struggle.
“[Jedrzejczyk] stated she would struggle at 125, not at 115, and that might be even higher for me as a result of I really feel nice on this division as nicely,” Andrade stated. “I wouldn’t be too affected by the burden loss or any of that. I believe we’d placed on a present and do an unbelievable struggle, and I might get that one again.”
Andrade fought Jedrzejczyk in her first shot on the strawweight title in 2017, shedding through choice. No feminine UFC athlete has extra wins (17) and finishes (9) within the octagon than Andrade.
Jedrzejczyk retired from MMA in 2022 following a knockout loss to Zhang Weili.
