{"id":282081,"date":"2018-08-02T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=282081"},"modified":"2018-08-02T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T23:38:09","slug":"pat-barry-believes-joanna-jedrzejczyk-is-only-hurting-herself-by-not-accepting-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rose-namajunas\/pat-barry-believes-joanna-jedrzejczyk-is-only-hurting-herself-by-not-accepting-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Barry believes Joanna Jedrzejczyk is only hurting herself by not accepting defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After losing for the first time in her entire MMA career, and back to back at that, the former strawweight queen has gotten back in the win column.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/joanna-jedrzejczyk\/ufc-on-fox-30-results-joanna-jedrzejczyk-defeats-tecia-torres-highlights\/\">At UFC on Fox 30, Joanna Jedrzejczyk defeated Tecia Torres via clear unanimous decision<\/a>. The fight was\u00a0Jedrzejczyk&#8217;s first three-rounder since December 2014 in her and Claudia Gadelha&#8217;s first encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, we saw\u00a0Jedrzejczyk meet her match in the new champion, Rose Namajunas.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being knocked out in the first encounter then beaten via unanimous decision in the rematch,\u00a0Jedrzejczyk has gone onto make claims that she is still the true champion and the best 115-pounder in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Namajunas&#8217; fiance,\u00a0former UFC heavyweight Pat Barry told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/8\/2\/17645472\/pat-barry-joanna-jedrzejczyk-f-cking-herself-over-by-not-accepting-losses-to-rose-namajunas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting<\/a>\u00a0that he believes that Jedrzejczyk&#8217;s continued unacceptance of defeat is only going to work against her moving forward.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI think that Joanna is f*cking herself over, by not accepting defeat. That\u2019s why she lost to Valentina [Shevchenko] three times. Lost the first time, she got robbed. Lost the second time, she got robbed. Lost the third time. Knockout to Rose wasn\u2019t her fault. Lost a decision, wasn\u2019t her fault. She wants to fight Rose again. She\u2019s not going to be able to. It\u2019s still going to be Rose.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can grow from losing. If you\u2019re not going to grow from that, how are you going to get better? It\u2019s not her fault that anything ever went wrong in her life. It\u2019s everyone else\u2019s fault but hers. I honestly, as good as Joanna is&#8230;she\u2019s a f*cking fantastic athlete, she\u2019s a dominant athlete, one of the best female fighters to ever live, ever&#8230;if she accepted the responsibility for it, how much better would she get? How much better would she be if she accepted it, worked on making some changes, how much better would she be? But she\u2019s been so dominant for so long, I don\u2019t think she\u2019s going to make any changes.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jedrzejczyk was a five-time defending champion before running into Namajunas where she would be on the receiving end of the upset of the 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Having always been a very confidence-driven\u00a0fighter and rightfully so, it isn&#8217;t wildly surprising to see\u00a0Jedrzejczyk hold onto the same self-belief despite her losses.<\/p>\n<p>However, Barry thinks it would be a good idea to at least realize why you lost and try to make adjustments for it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIf you think about it, when Joanna came out and fought Carla [Esparza] and beat Carla, that\u2019s the same Joanna that fought Rose. She hasn\u2019t advanced. She\u2019s the same fighter. She hasn\u2019t gotten better. Only thing is she\u2019s gotten in better shape. She\u2019s like Fedor [Emelianenko].<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fedor came out and killed everybody and no one could handle him for years and years and then eventually everyone caught up and figured him out because Fedor didn\u2019t get any better. He stayed exactly where he was, and eventually, everyone figured him out. Joanna hasn\u2019t gotten better, she\u2019s gotten more in shape. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether or not we&#8217;ll ever see a trilogy bout between the two remains to be seen. And with the winner of Jessica Andrade and Karolina Kowalkiewicz at UFC 228 very likely next in line for a title shot, it&#8217;s safe to assume that it won&#8217;t be seen anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>And Barry is fine with that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe know Rose is a better fighter. She beat her twice. There\u2019s no discussion. There\u2019s no discussion. If Joanna is the better fighter, she\u2019d be the champ right now. But she\u2019s not. Rose is. She knocked her out, and then she beat her ass for five rounds.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> on 8\/2\/2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing for the first time in her entire MMA career, and back to back at that, the former strawweight queen has gotten back in the win column. At UFC on Fox 30, Joanna Jedrzejczyk defeated Tecia Torres via clear unanimous decision. 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