Rose Namajunas is driving excessive after defeating Tracy Cortez final night time (Sat. July 13, 2024) in the primary occasion of UFC Denver from Ball Area in Denver, Colorado.
The previous Strawweight champion largely dominated her opponent, flattening Cortez within the first then out-wrestling her for many of the battle. On the entire, it was the perfect efficiency but of her three-fight Flyweight profession, the type of victory that evokes confidence in her capacity to problem for 125-pound gold.
Now that Namajunas is driving a two-fight win streak in her new division, a title shot is on her thoughts. In actual fact, Namajunas advised ESPN after her fundamental occasion win that she desires to battle in her dad and mom’ residence nation of Lithuania.
“I had this imaginative and prescient, I need to battle in Lithuania sooner or later,” Namajunas stated (by way of MMA Combating). “Deliver the UFC to Lithuania, and I’d like to rematch Manon [Fiorot] or anyone for the belt, no matter. That’s my dream come true, however something that the UFC has in thoughts, I’m cool with as effectively.”
Sadly, latest historical past has demonstrated that it’s tough to get UFC to go away the Apex, not to mention enterprise to completely new nations past their normal markets. Present UFC champions like Dricus Du Plessis and Ilia Topuria has pushed exhausting for UFC occasions in South Africa and Spain, however up to now, there’s been little introduced progress in making both of these exhibits occur.
On the brilliant aspect, Namajunas has one other potential goal: the inaugural girls’s BMF belt. As a fight-finisher and contender in two separate divisions, Namajunas would seem to have an inexpensive argument for a title that doesn’t fairly exist but.
“I don’t know, I used to be simply joking truly,” Namajunas stated, explaining her post-fight BMF callout. “However I do know Joanna [Jedrzejczyk] says she would come again for a girls’s BMF, so that might simply be for enjoyable. I really like her. I don’t know, I feel I used to be simply type of joking there. I don’t know what I used to be pondering.”
In the end, Namajunas has choices after her UFC Denver win. She’s in good place to problem for Flyweight gold ahead of later, standing at most yet one more victory from a title shot.
