Joanne Calderwood thinks Jessica Eye deserves to be punched repeatedly in the face and is convinced that the general public agrees with her. After Jessica Eye missed weight for the second consecutive time ahead of her fight against Cynthia Calvillo in …
Joanne Calderwood thinks Jessica Eye deserves to be punched repeatedly in the face and is convinced that the general public agrees with her. After Jessica Eye missed weight for the second consecutive time ahead of her fight against Cynthia Calvillo in June, Joanne Calderwood was among those who took exception. This led to the two […]
Joanne Calderwood’s insistence to stay active lost her a title shot. However, the Scot is back and looking to make amends. An injury meant that the UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko was unable to compete, so Calderwood went after Jennifer Maia instead of waiting around for her chance at UFC gold. This plan backfired […]
Joanne Calderwood’s insistence to stay active lost her a title shot. However, the Scot is back and looking to make amends.
An injury meant that the UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko was unable to compete, so Calderwood went after Jennifer Maia instead of waiting around for her chance at UFC gold. This plan backfired spectacularly when Maia submitted Calderwood in the very first round. Maia then faced Shevchenko for the belt in November, whilst Calderwood was left nursing an arm injury. (H/T MMAJunkie)
“I definitely regret it because I injured my arm, and I had to deal with that,” Calderwood told MMA Junkie at a pre-fight news conference Tuesday. “There was some stuff afterwards that didn’t go as planned. I regret it a little bit, but I try to see it as a positive. Everything happens for a reason. Here I am, not even a couple of months later, and fighting, so I’m looking forward to that.”
Medical professionals recommended that Calderwood should go under the knife following the loss, but she flat out refused. Rather than having surgery, the 34-year-old chose the rehab and stem cell route instead. The Scot believes she wasn’t at her best that night and refuses to put too much significance on the defeat.
“I don’t think it was the jiu-jitsu, honestly,” Calderwood said. “I just wasn’t feeling good the whole day. Mentally, I was outside of my body. I’ve been in that position a lot and I just felt like I wasn’t there, if you know what I mean. I was outside. It wasn’t my jiu-jitsu. It was just a bad day at the office.”
Looking to get back into the winning column, the Scot is up against Jessica Eye on the UFC 257 pay-per-view at Fight Island. Calderwood says that she isn’t a big fan of Eye on a personal level either.
“I see her every day at the PI,” Calderwood said. “She walks around like this ‘skillbilly’. She rubs me and she rubs everyone else up the wrong way. I feel like I’m the lucky one who gets to punch her and get paid for it.
“… We don’t like each other, so yeah. I wouldn’t say we’re putting a lot of trash out there. Last week, before I left here, she was trying to talk to me in the changing room. So I don’t if it’s that much of a grudge (match). I think it’s more for show. For me, I’m just here to turn up and do my job and tell you guys honestly my opinion.”
A flyweight bout between two top-10 flyweight contenders is set for UFC 257 when Jessia Eye faces Joanne Calderwood. Originally reported by MMA DNA, Jessica Eye and Joanne Calderwood will meet at UFC 257 on January 23, 2021. Both Eye and Calderwood wer…
A flyweight bout between two top-10 flyweight contenders is set for UFC 257 when Jessia Eye faces Joanne Calderwood. Originally reported by MMA DNA, Jessica Eye and Joanne Calderwood will meet at UFC 257 on January 23, 2021. Both Eye and Calderwood were recently involved in the flyweight title picture, with Eye losing to champion […]
Valentina Shevchenko believes no one can blame Joanne Calderwood for passing up her title shot to take on Jennifer Maia on short notice. In August, Maia was set to battle, Viviane Araujo. Yet, Araujo tested positive for COVID-19 and put of nowhere, Calderwood decided to take the fight on short notice despite having the next […]
Valentina Shevchenko believes no one can blame Joanne Calderwood for passing up her title shot to take on Jennifer Maia on short notice.
In August, Maia was set to battle, Viviane Araujo. Yet, Araujo tested positive for COVID-19 and put of nowhere, Calderwood decided to take the fight on short notice despite having the next title shot. For the champion in Shevchenko, she says it was something Calderwood wanted so no one can blame her for taking it.
“It’s hard to understand someone’s decision. You never know,” Shevchenko said to MMAFighting about Calderwood taking a fight rather than sitting and waiting for a title shot. “Probably she was like she needed this fight, she needed to be active. No one can judge her for this because this is what I feel for myself. I need to be active. I want to fight.
“Of course, it’s something she wanted to do so it was something she wanted to do. No one can blame her. She didn’t know, she expected that she was going to win the fight, get the money and have another fight in November.”
In the fight, Maia surprised a lot of people by pulling off the first-round submission. For Valentina Shevchenko, she believes Calderwood wasn’t there mentally in the fight.
“This is MMA. This is mixed martial arts. You never know what’s going to happen,” Shevchenko said. “Jennifer, she was preparing for the fight like it was her last fight in her whole life. You could see it in her eyes. She was hungry for the victory. Jojo, I don’t know, my opinion, she was kind of like not there probably.
“Sometimes it happens with fighters. It doesn’t matter how you are preparing, how good you had a training camp, sometimes this happens. I don’t know if it’s psychology or something else but it happens. But things changed.”
“Now I have another opponent for my fight, Jennifer Maia, and I’m good with that,” Shevchenko said. “For me, it doesn’t really matter who is going to be in front of me. I’m going to be prepared the best way I can. But what I want, my opponent is going to be a good one, the best one and they fight with the best version of themselves.”
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Valentina Shevchenko believes no one can blame Joanne Calderwood for stepping up on short notice to fight Jennifer Maia. Calderwood was expected to fight Shevchenko later this year but the champion had an injury which made Calderwood decide to take the…
Valentina Shevchenko believes no one can blame Joanne Calderwood for stepping up on short notice to fight Jennifer Maia. Calderwood was expected to fight Shevchenko later this year but the champion had an injury which made Calderwood decide to take the short notice fight. Unfortunately for her, it did not go her way as she […]
Joanne Calderwood’s plan did not come to fruition on Saturday night. Calderwood, who already had a title shot, risked it to take a short-notice fight against Jennifer Maia. The hope for her was to get her hand raised, make some money, and stay re…
Joanne Calderwood’s plan did not come to fruition on Saturday night. Calderwood, who already had a title shot, risked it to take a short-notice fight against Jennifer Maia. The hope for her was to get her hand raised, make some money, and stay ready for Valentina Shevchenko. Ultimately, that is far from what happened as […]
Joanne Calderwood’s insistence to stay active lost her a title shot. However, the Scot is back and looking to make amends. An injury meant that the UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko was unable to compete, so Calderwood went after Jennifer Maia instead of waiting around for her chance at UFC gold. This plan backfired […]
Valentina Shevchenko believes no one can blame Joanne Calderwood for passing up her title shot to take on Jennifer Maia on short notice. In August, Maia was set to battle, Viviane Araujo. Yet, Araujo tested positive for COVID-19 and put of nowhere, Calderwood decided to take the fight on short notice despite having the next […]