Claudia Gadelha (13-1) vill verkligen ha sin rematch mot Joanna Jedrzejczyk (10-0) även om Jedrzejczyk inte lyckas försvara sin stråviktstitel på UFC 193, är det henne som Gadelha vill möta.
Gadelha medger att hon inte bryr sig om titeln, utan det hon vill är att få möta Jedrzejczyk igen.
“I want to fight Joanna,” berättade Gadelha för MMAjunkie. “Even if she loses the title, I don’t care about the title –I want to fight her. I think she will win the fight and the UFC said if she wins the fight and nothing happens to her, we will fight in February. I will fight her anywhere.”
Det var tänkt att Gadelha skulle få sin rematch mot Jedrzejczyk efter att ha besegrat Jessica Aguilar (19-5) på UFC 190, men en handskada satte stopp för dom planerna då Gadelha skulle vara redo för match i december eller januari och Jedrzejczyk blev då bokad att gå match mot Valerie Letourneau (8-3) i november.
“Joanna, after her last injury, she said she was going to be ready in December or January; so I got hurt (at UFC 190) and I said I’ll be ready in December or January also,” förklarade Gadelha. “Then they brought her to November and I don’t know what happened because she said she’ll be ready in December or January, not November.
“For November was not going to be good for me because of my finger was hurt. So I think what happened was because they tried to bring her down to Ronda’s card and she said she was going to fight on that card even though she said before that she was not going to be ready. That’s it, that’s what I think happened.”
Gadelha tror att Jedrzejczyk kommer att lyckas med sitt titelförsvar och Gadelha skulle gladeligen gå in till oktagonen för att utmana Jedrzejczyk om en rematch ansikte mot ansikte om hon skulle bli tillfrågad att göra det.
“I think Joanna will win because Valerie, she lose a lot of weight and she lose a lot of performance in that division,” sa Gadelha. “So I think Joanna can win that fight pretty easy.”
“My challenge for her is already on. She knows I want to fight her already anyways. I’ll make that happen anyways. Even if they don’t want to make that happen, I’ll make that happen. So if they want me to get inside the octagon and challenge her, I will.”
