Although Jedrzejczyk (11-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) had destroyed abroad her contempo antagonism aural a few rounds, Letourneau (8-4 MMA, 3-1 UFC) stood toe-to-toe and took the champion’s best shots over 5 circuit afore accident a accepted decision.
Letourneau was a massive action underdog and was accustomed little adventitious of victory. She wasn’t able to cull off a abominable agitated like Holly Holm did over Ronda Rousey in UFC 193’s capital event, but she surpassed the expectations of most, including UFC President Dana White.
“At the UFC, we consistently believed in Valerie Letourneau. She’s big, able for that division, and now she’s at atomic traveling to sit in the rankings area she belongs,” White said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast. “She wasn’t ranked No. 8 (in our opinion). She’s bigger than that, and she accepted it. Joanna’s just a f-cking monster.”
Letourneau, No. 7 in the NOS Energy Drink MMA women’s MMA strawweight rankings, may accept jumped up the 115-pound rankings admitting the loss, but she had to yield a lot of accident to get there. Jedrzejczyk landed a UFC almanac 70 leg bliss as allotment of the 220 cogent strikes overall, and White said the Canadian was cutting every draft if he visited her in the hospital afterwards UFC 193.
“I went to the hospital there and I had Joanna Jedrzejczyk there, I had Valerie Letourneau there and I had Ronda Rousey there,” White said. “I’m walking from allowance to allowance going, ‘Jesus Christ, this is a crazy business we’re in, man.’ It’s just so crazy, these girls.
“Valerie Letourneau is – oh my God. Her eye was massive. It was the craziest affair I’ve anytime seen, her eye. It was so bad. So again I’m like, ‘How’s your leg?’ Again she looks at me and pulls the covers over and shows me her leg. I’ve never apparent annihilation like that. It was – I’m cogent you, (she) is banged up appropriate now.”
White has fabricated endless hospital visits during his administration as UFC boss. However, what he witnessed from Letourneau, Jedrzejczyk and Rousey afterwards UFC 193 assertive him that the changeable fighters accept a college altruism for affliction than their macho counterparts.
“The women are tougher than the men,” White said. “Woman accept babies for Christ’s sake. They’re way tougher than us. Way tougher than the men.”
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