Forward of her ultimate struggle, former UFC girls’s strawweight champion Carla Esparza is considering her legacy.
‘Cookie Monster’ hasn’t been seen within the cage since her title protection towards Weili Zhang in November 2022. Only a few months after upsetting Rose Namajunas to re-win UFC gold, Carla Esparza confronted ‘Magnum’. Finally, it took solely two rounds for the Chinese language fighter to attain a stoppage win to earn the title.
Since then, Carla Esparza hasn’t targeted lots on her combating profession. A couple of months after dropping to Zhang, she introduced that she was pregnant. Final September, Esparza gave start to her first youngster, a son. Whereas having a baby is thrilling to the previous champion, it did pressure her to make a troublesome determination.
Carla Esparza is slated to face Tecia Pennington this Saturday night time at UFC 307 in Salt Lake Metropolis. Forward of her return, ‘Cookie Monster’ has said that the bout shall be her final. For her half, ‘The Tiny Twister’ enters this contest on a two-fight dropping streak, final dropping a call to Tabatha Ricci in Might.
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Carla Esparza hoping for UFC Corridor of Fame induction forward of ultimate struggle
Talking in a latest interview with Brian Campbell, Carla Esparza opened up on her profession. There, the previous UFC girls’s strawweight champion admitted that she hoped for a future Corridor of Fame induction. As a former two-time titleholder, it’s arduous to argue that Esparza’s resume doesn’t deserve some shine.
“I’d like to ultimately be within the Corridor of Fame. I imply, that might be so cool,” Carla Esparza mentioned. “I feel successful the title the primary time was like seeing the place I used to be as a fighter then to the place I’m now; there’s been a lot progress.” (h/t MMA Information)
She continued, “I imply, you must develop to nonetheless keep on this division with all these killers. Everyone seems to be so good, and there’s younger blood continually coming by way of the UFC. It’s important to be at such a excessive degree even simply to compete with these individuals, so it’s cool to have been capable of keep at this excessive degree and compete with all these children coming in.”
What do you make of those feedback from Carla Esparza? Do you assume she deserves to be within the UFC Corridor of Fame?