Rose Namajunas and Carla Esparza are coming off of a historically awful fight at UFC 274 and many people are looking for answers as to what happened. Both women were hesitant to engage and the gameplans were very weird.
Rose Namajunas recently spoke out about her game plan and explained why the fight with Carla Esparza went the way it did on her end. The idea at UFC 274 was not to take any damage and keep moving.
“Just in a general sense, I will say it just basically had to do with, I have my three goals,” Namajunas said Wednesday on The MMA Hour. “My base-level goal is come out unscathed, like happy, healthy and safe. And then number two was obviously win the fight. And then … ultimately [number three] was not only win, but dominate and set myself apart from the rest of the division. That’s why I talked about it in all my interviews leading up to it.
“I literally said I’ll take what I can get though, because ultimately, for this fight, all it matters is that I’m happy, healthy, and safe, because of just the patterns in which my career’s gone and all that stuff. That’s the main thing. And so, as far as all the things I wanted to get out of this, I got base-level everything that I wanted, as far as, I got what I wanted out of it. And it’s crazy — it might sound crazy to people, because I think they look at Carla as just Carla, you know? And it’s like, no, there were many moments to get in a lot of danger.”
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