UFC ladies’s flyweight Tracy Cortez (11-1) enters the largest combat of her life on Saturday as she headlines UFC on ESPN 59 towards former two-time strawweight titleholder Rose Namajunas. Cortez has lofty aspirations and objectives that exceed a win over Namajunas (12-6).
There have been a number of ladies pioneers within the sport: Tara LaRosa, Shelby Walker, Gina Carano, and Miesha Tate, to call only a few. All of them laid the way in which for Ronda Rousey to place ladies’s MMA on the mainstream map. Rousey was topped the inaugural UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion in 2012 and went on to set almost each UFC report for ladies. Cortez plans to surpass Rousey’s accomplishments.
“Everybody’s ready or the following Ronda, for the following Joanna [Jędrzejczyk]. Somebody unbelievable like Weili [Zhang] to remain on high and show themselves. Somebody like Rose to trip that like Ronda did, and even myself now that I am right here,” Cortez stated throughout an look on The MMA Hour.
“I am very grateful for the way in which Ronda paved the way in which for ladies’s MMA. Nobody has carried out it like she has. I say this humbly, I hope to surpass that,” continued Cortez.
Cortez will enter the octagon on Saturday at Ball Area in Denver, Colorado ranked eleventh within the ladies’s flyweight division. Namajunas will make the stroll to the cage ranked sixth. It will likely be Cortez’ first UFC predominant occasion, however she loves having strain to carry out.
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“I thrive off of strain. I’ve all the time been judged and missed and only a fairly face. I am right here now. The report speaks for itself, and I thrive off of it. I like it. I genuinely love the strain. I really feel like I carry out. I embrace it to the fullest,” Cortez stated.
A win over Namajunas would put Cortez squarely in contender standing, however she’s seeking to be greater than only a contender. She plans to be the very best.
“I see myself being the very best. I look again at my fights towards these ladies which might be killers. Killers. Black bets, they can not submit me. I am nonetheless in disbelief. That is me? Oh my God. It is simply a kind of issues the place I noticed myself, I used to be watching footage of myself and I stated, ‘Man, I’ve the power to be the very best. I’ve what it takes,'” Cortez stated. “I have been coaching for this. I have been making ready for this.”
