{"id":240622,"date":"2017-06-05T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=240622"},"modified":"2017-06-05T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T17:02:55","slug":"claudia-gadelha-ufc-212-win-consider-best-fighter-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/claudia-gadelha\/claudia-gadelha-ufc-212-win-consider-best-fighter-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Gadelha: After UFC 212 win, “I consider myself the best fighter in the division”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend<\/a>, in the co-main event of UFC 212, number-one-ranked strawweight Claudia Gadelha submitted a fellow former title challenger in Karolina Kowalkiewicz in the first round<\/a>. In doing so, Gadelha reaffirmed her status as the best strawweight alive outside of the champion, Joanna Jedrzejczyk.<\/p>\n

If you ask Gadelha, however, she’s the best strawweight alive, outright \u2013 despite her two previous losses to Jedrzejczyk. She explained this feeling during the UFC 212 post-fight press conference (via MMAMania.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\u201cI consider myself the best fighter in the division,\u201d Gadelha said. \u201cBut I think a few things are missing that I needed to do to perform well inside of the Octagon. And that\u2019s why I decided to change everything in my life. It has not been easy to leave my comfort zone. Ten years living in Rio, I went abroad alone, nobody there. Training with different trainers.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very, very tough, but I got to a point in my career where I felt I needed to improve and to become the fighter that I wanted to be, and that I desired to be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gadelha then discussed her two losses to Jedrzejczyk. While she admitted that Jedrzejczyk is the better striker, she then claimed that overall, she herself is the better MMA fighter.<\/p>\n

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“It doesn\u2019t bother me at all to talk about that,\u201d Gadelha said about her second loss to Jedrzejczyk. \u201cWe\u2019re in a sport where you can win and you can lose at anytime. Of course, we always want positive results, but we can\u2019t always get that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd about my two defeats to Joanna, I only believe there is one. There\u2019s two on paper, but if you were to analyze the fight, I did not lose that first fight to her. The second fight I really did lose, but if you were to look technically at it, I have better technique, and better MMA technique. I\u2019m not a better striker, but I\u2019m a better MMA fighter than Joanna. But I trained incorrectly to fight with her.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What do you think of these comments from Claudia Gadelha?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 6\/5\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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