Carla Esparza is the strawweight champion again after a historically bad fight at UFC 274 and she already has many people hoping to fight her. Joanna Jedrzejcyzk recently spoke out about the new champion and she did not hold back.
Joanna Jedrzejcyzk originally beat Carla Esparza in 2015 to become the UFC strawweight champion. She now expects to do the same thing again after she's done fighting Weili Zhang in the summer.
“I was very surprised,” Jedrzejczyk told MMA Fighting at the UFC 275 pre-fight press conference. “Because sometimes you have to do more, you have to do much more to beat the champion but you know I can speak for myself. I can’t speak for Rose but I don’t know what happened. When you feel that the first round wasn’t good and the second [round], you have to do something. Sometimes you have to risk to get the victory even paying a big price. I don’t know what happened. Until the end of the fight, I thought that Rose got it but no and here we go.
“Like Carla, I really thought she was going to look better and I was like this girl deserved the title shot, she had so many [fights] on her win streak but for me, she looked the same as seven years ago when we fought for the belt in Dallas. History likes to make a circle and [I’m] soon to be champ.”
It will have to be seen if Joanna Jedrzejcyzk can beat Weili Zhang and earn another chance to fight for the UFC strawweight title. Carla Esparza will not be short of challengers once she decides to return to the cage.
