Rose Namajunas is driving excessive after defeating Tracy Cortez final evening (Sat. July 13, 2024) in the principle 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 a lot of the combat. On the entire, it was the very best efficiency but of her three-fight Flyweight profession, the form of victory that evokes confidence in her potential 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. Actually, Namajunas informed ESPN after her fundamental occasion win that she desires to combat in her mother and father’ residence nation of Lithuania.
“I had this imaginative and prescient, I wish to combat in Lithuania someday,” Namajunas mentioned (through 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, current historical past has demonstrated that it’s troublesome to get UFC to depart the Apex, not to mention enterprise to thoroughly new nations past their regular markets. Present UFC champions like Dricus Du Plessis and Ilia Topuria has pushed laborious for UFC occasions in South Africa and Spain, however up to now, there’s been little introduced progress in making both of these reveals occur.
On the intense aspect, Namajunas has one other attainable goal: the inaugural ladies’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 mentioned, explaining her post-fight BMF callout. “However I do know Joanna [Jedrzejczyk] says she would come again for a ladies’s BMF, so that will simply be for enjoyable. I really like her. I don’t know, I believe I used to be simply form 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 prior to later, standing at most another victory from a title shot.