If she will’t get her fingers on the flyweight title simply but, ‘Thug’ Rose Namajunas would like to compete for the first-ever ladies’s BMF belt.
Returning to her house away from house, Denver, Colorado, the previous two-time strawweight queen scored her second-straight win at 125, besting short-notice substitute Tracy Cortez in an entertaining five-round affair to shut out the UFC’s return to The Centennial State on Saturday night time.
After flattening Cortez early, Namajunas asserted her dominance all through the combat, mixing up her hanging and her wrestling to attain a unanimous determination victory over her opponent.
Instantly following the combat, Namajunas known as for a shot on the flyweight title, presently held by Mexico’s personal Alexa Grasso. Nevertheless, if she will’t get that fairly but, she’d love a crack at bringing a ladies’s BMF belt to The Mile Excessive Metropolis.
“Give me the belt, man. I need it. I’m Colorado’s first UFC champion so I need to deliver a second one again right here,” Namajunas stated in her post-fight interview with Paul Felder. “Both that or a ladies’s BMF, I don’t know.”
When wanting on the checklist of feminine UFC fighters badass sufficient to compete for a BMF belt, Rose Namajunas undoubtedly lands proper close to the highest.
Rose Namajunas Possible wants another win to safe a flyweight title shot
Along with her win over Cortez, ‘Thug’ will most definitely hold on to her No. 6 rating within the flyweight division, although it stays to be seen if the victory will transfer her up the ladder in any respect contemplating Cortez is ranked simply outdoors the highest 10.
Initially, Namajunas was scheduled to sq. off with top-five contender Maycee Barber till ‘The Future’ was compelled to bow out as a result of an unlucky sickness.
With Grasso anticipated to defend the 125-pound crown in opposition to former champion Valentina Shevchenko in a extremely anticipated trilogy bout this September, maybe the promotion will rebook Barber and Namajunas.
Solely time will inform, however no matter who comes out on high in that potential matchup, the winner must get behind No. 2 ranked Manon Fiorot who has finished greater than sufficient to earn her shot on the winner of Grasso vs. Shevchenko 3.
