Lauren Murphy thanks corner for not stopping loss to Andrade

January 22, 2023

in MMA

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After a one-sided determination loss to former champion Jessica Andrade, Lauren Murphy mentioned she’s able to take a while off.

Murphy (16-6 MMA, 8-6 UFC), who will flip 40 in July, was largely dominated from bell to bell by Andrade (24-9 MMA, 15-7 UFC), who swept the scorecards with two 10-8 rounds from two judges and one 10-8 body from the third. Their girls’s flyweight combat was a part of the UFC 283 important card at Jeunesse Enviornment in Rio de Janeiro.

Murphy had been on among the best runs within the 125-pound division. Heading into the combat with former girls’s strawweight champ Andrade, Murphy had gained six of seven fights. Her lone loss in that stretch was a fourth-round TKO to dominant champ Valentina Shevchenko in a September 2021 title combat.

Murphy adopted that loss up with a choice win over former girls’s bantamweight titleholder Miesha Tate in Tate’s flyweight debut to get again on observe, and together with Andrade was eager for a possible title shot with a win in Brazil.

Now, she posted on Instagram on Sunday, she’ll step again to relaxation, heal and assess what ought to be subsequent. She additionally mentioned she’s grateful to her nook for not stopping the combat – which is one thing the printed crew of Jon Anik, Daniel Cormier and Paul Felder talked about a number of instances through the combat.

“The combat was a beat down however not the way in which I imagined it 🙄,” Murphy posted. “Generally shit goes down and also you simply gotta study from it and get higher. Jessica is an insanely powerful opponent and I’ll study rather a lot from her. All these experiences – the great ones and dangerous ones – make me a greater athlete and human. Fortunately I’m all good, nostril is a bit busted up and my head wants relaxation, however I’ll be tremendous in a number of days.

“I’m glad my nook didn’t cease the combat. Tbh I believed the ref was going to cease it within the second spherical however the bell rang earlier than he determined to. Both method, I used to be grateful for the prospect to maintain combating. My head and nostril will heal with relaxation, and my coronary heart will heal with time. My grownup life has been a dream, and generally I’ve to pay for that dream. I’ll be again someday, however for now I’m simply gonna lick my wounds and relaxation a bit.”

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Andrade’s win was her third straight, although a submission of Amanda Lemos in April 2022 was at strawweight. She gained the 115-pound title in 2019 with a knockout of Rose Namajunas, however misplaced the belt later that yr in 42 seconds to Zhang Weili. Then she misplaced a rematch to Namajunas and moved as much as flyweight. After a win over Katlyn Chookagian, she received a 2021 title shot with Shevchenko, however was knocked out within the second spherical.

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