If the UFC decides to create a ladies’s BMF title, Joanna Jedrzejczyk needs to be the primary to battle for it.
Jedrzejczyk (16-5 MMA, 10-5 UFC), a former five-time defending UFC strawweight champion, was inducted into the fashionable period wing of the UFC Corridor of Fame this previous Thursday. She joined Ronda Rousey as the one lady within the UFC Corridor of Fame.
Jedrzejczyk hung up her gloves after a knockout loss to Zhang Weili in June 2022. She admits that she misses competing, however it will take one thing thrilling to carry her again – like a BMF title battle.
“I’d like to (battle), however I don’t have a reputation in my head.” Jedrzejczyk advised Cageside Press. “I don’t know – whoever. I’m not afraid to battle anyone, that’s the factor. After all, after they introduced my identify (as a BMF), I texted Hunter (Campbell) straight away.
“I used to be like, ‘So, Hunter what do you consider me combating for the feminine BMF belt,’ and he was like, ‘No, you don’t want extra titles.’ … In the event that they create the BMF for ladies, I wish to be the primary. I’d come out of my retirement to battle for the BMF belt. Let’s go.”
Being in attendance for Saturday’s UFC 303 occasion at T-Cellular Area has made it even more durable for Jedrzejczyk to not take into consideration combating.
“After I’m at occasions like this UFC X, after I hang around with my associates or after I’m at UFC occasions, I really feel the itch,” Jedrzejczyk stated. “I at all times inform my supervisor, perhaps I ought to battle, perhaps I needs to be again out of retirement. I’ve the itch.”
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