Joanna Jedrzejczyk interested in fighting at flyweight, vows to ‘hold two belts’

The UFC’s reigning women’s strawweight champion is interested in competing at 125 lbs, so that she can hold two titles at once.

UFC women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk has a rematch booked with her rival, Claudia Gadelha, for later this year, but she’s looking onward and already discussing the possibility of fighting at 125 pounds and becoming a two-division UFC champion.

The UFC doesn’t currently have an active women’s flyweight division but UFC President Dana White confirmed last year it will be the next division to be added to the organization’s roster.

“There’s not going to be a division for awhile, but the next division when there is one will be 125,” White said at the UFC 193 Q&A event last November. “So I’ll have a 115, 125 and 135.”

“I hope that we gonna have 125-pound division in the future, and I’m gonna become the first female fighter [to] hold two belts,” Jedrzejczyk told Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour. “[It’d be] probably better. I cut lots of weight. It isn’t nice but it’s part of my job and I can make it very easy. But of course, it could be [easier], more interesting to fight at 125 pounds.”

Only two fighters in UFC history have been champions in two divisions (at different times) — Randy Couture at heavyweight and light heavyweight, and B.J. Penn at lightweight and welterweight. Penn also attempted to become the first fighter to hold two championships at the same time when he fought then-welterweight titleholder Georges St-Pierre in a super-fight, but ultimately came up short.

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor was scheduled to attempt the same thing earlier this month in a lightweight title fight with Rafael dos Anjos, but less than two weeks prior to UFC 196, the Brazilian pulled out due to a foot injury.

Jedrzejczyk defends her title for the third time in a highly anticipated rematch with Gadelha live from Las Vegas on July 8 — the day before the landmark event, UFC 200.

The UFC’s reigning women’s strawweight champion is interested in competing at 125 lbs, so that she can hold two titles at once.

UFC women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk has a rematch booked with her rival, Claudia Gadelha, for later this year, but she’s looking onward and already discussing the possibility of fighting at 125 pounds and becoming a two-division UFC champion.

The UFC doesn’t currently have an active women’s flyweight division but UFC President Dana White confirmed last year it will be the next division to be added to the organization’s roster.

“There’s not going to be a division for awhile, but the next division when there is one will be 125,” White said at the UFC 193 Q&A event last November. “So I’ll have a 115, 125 and 135.”

“I hope that we gonna have 125-pound division in the future, and I’m gonna become the first female fighter [to] hold two belts,” Jedrzejczyk told Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour. “[It’d be] probably better. I cut lots of weight. It isn’t nice but it’s part of my job and I can make it very easy. But of course, it could be [easier], more interesting to fight at 125 pounds.”

Only two fighters in UFC history have been champions in two divisions (at different times) — Randy Couture at heavyweight and light heavyweight, and B.J. Penn at lightweight and welterweight. Penn also attempted to become the first fighter to hold two championships at the same time when he fought then-welterweight titleholder Georges St-Pierre in a super-fight, but ultimately came up short.

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor was scheduled to attempt the same thing earlier this month in a lightweight title fight with Rafael dos Anjos, but less than two weeks prior to UFC 196, the Brazilian pulled out due to a foot injury.

Jedrzejczyk defends her title for the third time in a highly anticipated rematch with Gadelha live from Las Vegas on July 8 — the day before the landmark event, UFC 200.