Virna Jandiroba’s UFC tenure didn’t begin the best way she anticipated when she came to visit in 2019 as Invicta’s strawweight champion.
Jandiroba misplaced her promotional debut to former titleholder Carla Esparza. However her subsequent trip, she made up for it with a submission of Mallory Martin. Then in 2020, after the delays of the pandemic, it lastly was time for her to get again to work.
Jandiroba took on ladies’s MMA pioneer Felice Herrig at UFC 252 in Las Vegas and tapped her with a first-round armbar for the primary $50,000 post-fight bonus of her profession, and on the time the most important title on her resume.
Saturday, Jandiroba (20-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) is again for her first UFC primary occasion. At UFC on ESPN 60 in Las Vegas, she’ll tackle former title challenger Amanda Lemos (14-3-1 MMA, 8-3 UFC) in a combat that could be a digital decide’em on the betting window.
However earlier than Jandiroba throws down with Lemos on the UFC Apex, take a look at how she completed Herrig within the video above.
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