Former UFC champions Jessica Andrade and Joanna Jedrzejczyk might be working it again.
The Brazilian hasn’t been seen within the cage since a conflict with Marina Rodriguez in April at UFC 300. That evening noticed Jessica Andrade rating a split-decision win, her second in a row. This Saturday at UFC Vegas 97, the previous girls’s strawweight champion will look to attain her third straight victory in opposition to Natalia Silva.
Talking in a latest interview with MMA Preventing, Jessica Andrade mentioned her UFC return. There, the previous girls’s strawweight champion mentioned her former opponent, Joanna Jedrzejczyk. The previous Polish fighter famously retired following a knockout loss to Weili Zhang in June 2022. Nevertheless, she’s mentioned a return since then.
The truth is, Joanna Jedrzejczyk has repeatedly proven curiosity in unretiring for a girls’s BMF title battle. The 37-year-old beforehand acknowledged that Jessica Andrade would make sense as a possible opponent if the championship was created. Talking with MMA Preventing, the Brazilian revealed she’d just lately spoken with Jedrzeczyk about making the battle occur.
RELATED: JON JONES PRAISES DANA WHITE AFTER UFC PRESIDENT DEFENDS STIPE MIOCIC FIGHT: “REAL RECOGNIZE REAL”
Jessica Andrade discusses Joanna Jedrzejczyk forward of UFC Vegas 97 return
“I’ve been speaking to Joanna and he or she mentioned she’d come again,” Jessica Andrade acknowledged within the interview. “If it’s for this [BMF] belt, she would come again. I feel that may be a very good battle. Joanna, or perhaps Angela Hill, who by no means walks away from a battle and is all the time there preventing everybody. Or Valentina [Shevchenko]. Any of these ladies can be nice, however I feel it might be particular if it’s Joanna. It might be higher.” (h/t MMA Preventing)
She continued, “[Jedrzejczyk] mentioned she would battle at 125, not at 115, and that may be even higher for me as a result of I really feel nice on this division as effectively. I wouldn’t be too affected by the burden loss or any of that. I feel we’d placed on a present and do an unimaginable battle, and I’d get that one again.”
If Joanna Jedrzejczyk exits retirement to battle Jessica Andrade, it might be a rematch of their UFC 211 traditional. That evening in Might 2017 noticed the Polish fighter completely dominate. Jedrzeczyk placed on a clinic, outstriking Andrade en path to a large unanimous choice victory.
What do you make of those feedback from the previous UFC girls’s strawweight champion? Do you need to see Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs. Jessica Andrade 2?
