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Joanna Jedrzejczyk Reveals Why She ‘Won’ Rose Rematch

In the co-main event of last night’s (April 7, 2018) UFC 223 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Rose Namajunas successfully defended her strawweight title in a rematch against former champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. Jedrzejczyk, however, feels as if she should’ve been given the decision simply due to the numbers: “When I heard Bruce […]

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Jedrzejczyk, however, feels as if she should’ve been given the decision simply due to the numbers:

“When I heard Bruce Buffer saying the numbers of how the judges scored the card, I expected that I was going to win by split decision,” Jedrzejczyk said at the post-fight press conference. “But when I heard the difference I was like ‘Okay, we’ve got this win, easy.’ Even say my coaches. So it was a really big surprise and the numbers don’t lie: 142 to 84, and landed 132 from me, 83 from Rose. That’s the answer. That’s the answer.”

And although she felt as if she was winning the fight, Jedrzejczyk is not looking to complain, as she’s actually quite content with what she’s accomplished:

“We thought the second round was super close, but more kicks from me,” she said. “And I felt great, you could see that she gassed out in the third round and I was more than ready to go with every round, I could fight 10 more rounds. At the end of every break I was on my feet ready to go … I felt like I was winning the fight. And I’m not complaining that I lost or not. I’m really different fighter, I’ve done so much for myself and the sport. I feel great.”

Moving forward, the Polish striker could move up to the 125-pound division, which she revealed is a possibility, but that decision has not yet been made:

“I was competing at 125 and it was easy,” Jedrzejczyk said. “But I put on great work with my diet this camp, for the first 5 weeks I dropped my weight to 128 so I was pretty light the whole camp. After that I started working with George Lockhart but I used my knowledge as well. But we put on great work, so we’ll see.

“I feel great in the 115 division … but we’ll see. We’ll see where we go after the vacation and after we talk to Dana and the matchmakers.”

Where would you like to see Jedrzejczyk go next?

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Khabib Nurmagomedov: Tony Ferguson Needs to Win a Fight Before Title Shot

What goes around, comes around. That’s the message from new undisputed lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov, who said he’s still interested in settling a long standing feud with Tony Ferguson — as long as he goes out and gets a win afte…

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5 Takeaways From UFC 223

Within a matter of days, an absurd chain of events turned the most stacked card of the year into a potential dud. Luckily, two 5-round championship battles and several great fights salvaged the card from being a complete disappointment. One thing is ce…

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Dana White Clarifies UFC Lightweight Title Situation

As part of the build-up to the UFC 223 pay-per-view event, the talk about who the real lightweight champion would be was heavily discussed. The promotion would not really say if this fight would be for the actual lightweight title or for the interim title that Tony Ferguson held. We had an actual champion, but […]

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As part of the build-up to the UFC 223 pay-per-view event, the talk about who the real lightweight champion would be was heavily discussed.

The promotion would not really say if this fight would be for the actual lightweight title or for the interim title that Tony Ferguson held. We had an actual champion, but he had not defended it in over 500 days, and that was Conor McGregor.

McGregor has not been seen in the Octagon since at UFC 205 when he won the lightweight title from Eddie Alvarez. McGregor then fought in a boxing match with Floyd Mayweather.

This wouldn’t be the first time that the promotion has stripped their biggest PPV draw of a title.

If you recall, he was stripped of the featherweight title shortly after beating Eddie Alvarez to become a two-division champ at UFC 205.

The reason to strip McGregor was to make the lightweight showdown between interim champion Tony Ferguson and Khabib Nurmagomedov legitimate for the strap.

Then we had all of the drama with the main event of UFC 223 that saw Ferguson pull out then UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway.

The promotion offered the fight to former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis and Paul Felder to fight Nurmagomedov on short notice, but that was able to be finalized. Then Al Iaquinta was offered the fight, and he took it.

As seen in the main event of the UFC 223 pay-per-view event on Saturday night (April 8th, 2018) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Nurmagomedov put on a dominant performance against Iaquinta and won the fight by decision to become the new lightweight champion.

With all the highlights of that sage, UFC President Dana White finally put to rest the lightweight title situation by clarifying and summing it up.

“That’s it,” White told reporters backstage at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y (transcript courtesy of MMA Junkie). “That’s the only belt.”

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UFC 223 Reebok Fighter Sponsorship: Rose Namajunas Tops Everyone

UFC 223 is in the books, and now it’s time for Reebok to pay the fighters their sponsorship money. UFC 223 took place on Saturday, April 7, 2018, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The main card aired on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card aired on FOX Sports 1 […]

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UFC 223 is in the books, and now it’s time for Reebok to pay the fighters their sponsorship money.

UFC 223 took place on Saturday, April 7, 2018, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

The main card aired on pay-per-view at 10 p.m. ET while the preliminary card aired on FOX Sports 1 at 8 p.m. ET and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass, at 6 p.m. ET.

Al Iaquinta vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov in a lightweight title fight will serve as the main event while a rematch between Rose Namajunas and Joanna Jedrzejczyk in a female strawweight bout will serve as the co-main event.

Rounding out the five bout main card was Renato Moicano vs. Calvin Kattar in a featherweight bout, Zabit Magomedsharipov vs. Kyle Bochniak in a featherweight bout, and Joe Lauzon vs. Chris Gruetzemacher in a lightweight bout.

The full payouts include:

Khabib Nurmagomedov: $30,000
def. Al Iaquinta: $30,000

Rose Namajunas: $40,000
def. Joanna Jedrzejczyk: $30,000

Renato Moicano: $5,000
def. Calvin Kattar: $3,500

Zabit Magomedsharipov: $3,500
def. Kyle Bochniak: $5,000

Chris Gruetzemacher: $5,000
def. Joe Lauzon: $20,000

Karolina Kowalkiewicz: $5,000
def. Felice Herrig: $5,000

Olivier Aubin-Mercier: $5,000
def. Evan Dunham: $15,000

Ashlee Evans-Smith: $5,000
def. Bec Rawlings: $5,000

Devin Clark: $5,000
def. Mike Rodriguez: $3,500

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Khabib Calls Out Georges St-Pierre After UFC 223 Title Win

Khabib Nurmagomedov finally became the UFC lightweight champion by dominating a tough Al Iaquinta (watch full highlights here) in the main event of last night’s (Sat., April 7, 2018) UFC 223 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The bout was the culmination of years of hype surrounding the undefeated “Eagle,” whom many believed would […]

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Khabib Nurmagomedov finally became the UFC lightweight champion by dominating a tough Al Iaquinta (watch full highlights here) in the main event of last night’s (Sat., April 7, 2018) UFC 223 from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

The bout was the culmination of years of hype surrounding the undefeated “Eagle,” whom many believed would have been champ sooner were it not for his long list of injuries suffered in training, and it was also the culmination of a week full of insanity after Khabib was tasked with literally five potential opponents beginning with longtime rival Tony Ferguson and ending with ‘Ragin’ Al.’

But all is well for the 26-0 Dagestani grappling machine, as he now owns the only 155-pound belt in the world’s biggest MMA promotion and will be headed for a massive fight no matter which direction he goes. Most will want him to face former champion Conor McGregor, with whom he has a monstrous beef bubbling over after their now-infamous run-in this week where McGregor threw a metal dolly through a bus window and was incarcerated on assault charges.

Yet while the fight could legitimately be one of the biggest fights in UFC history, Khabib chose a different route when asked whom he wanted to face next by Karyn Bryant on the UFC 223 post-fight show on FOX Sports 1, calling out legendary former middleweight and welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre in the most respectful way possible:

“To be honest, if they ask me, I wanna take Georges St-Pierre. St-Pierre is greatest athlete to compete in UFC. When I grow up, I watch his fight. When he defend his title in UFC like 10, 11 years ago, I compete in junior Dagestan championship in Combat Sambo.

“You know, can you imagine this? Now we’re here, and we can fight. It’s like crazy. 10, 11 years ago when I was like 19, 18 as a kid, when I watch his fight when I was like his very biggest fan. Now, he talk about how he wanna become UFC lightweight champion; before he was UFC middleweight and welterweight champion. Why not? If he can make, let’s go in New York.”

Now that McGregor’s fighting – and overall – future is uncertain at best, Khabib may be free to fight St-Pierre rather than ‘The Notorious’ when he returns to the cage later this year in November.

“Rush” has stated he can make lightweight, but he’s still recovering from a bout with colitis after the increased food intake he consumed to keep on the mass necessary to fight at middleweight, where he returned to after nearly four years off and choked out Michael Bisping to win the title before vacating the gold hardly a month later.

You’d have to think if St-Pierre was going to put himself through the opposite and cut all the way down to lightweight, it would have been for a fight with the UFC’s biggest star in McGregor.

A match-up with Khabib, however, could start to look like more of an enticing prospect for the all-time legend who has said he only wants the biggest and the best fights.

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