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Jessica Andrade is returning to strawweight after spending a significant amount of time up at flyweight. The former UFC champion is dropping back down after getting frustrated by the women in the division.
Flyweight has become a frustrating division for Jessica Andrade as she just can't seem to find a fight. The UFC was trying to come up with some options but the situation started to become difficult for everyone.
“I was having a hard time finding opponents in the flyweight division,” the former UFC champion told Sherdog. “We tried Alexa Grasso, even Miesha Tate in bantamweight, but nobody wanted to fight with me, so my master Gilliard Parana convinced me that in strawweight the amount of possibilities would grow, making the matchmakers lives easier.”
Moving up to flyweight was partly because of her tough weight cut to get down to 115. The UFC strawweight has since made some changes to ensure that the weight cut will no longer be a problem.
“Brazilian food made the weight-cut process very hard for me,” the UFC fighter admitted. “Since we moved to [Las] Vegas and started to use [the UFC Performance Institute] to train, I started to follow nutritionists, just eating the food they prepare for me, which is making it much easier to reach strawweight stronger than ever. As my master Parana says, I’m the queen of that division. ‘You beat Rose via TKO in the first time, in the second she won via split decision. The third one will, in five rounds, you will pass over her,’ [he told her].”
