{"id":289876,"date":"2018-11-01T11:03:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T18:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=289876"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T18:03:06","slug":"sijara-eubanks-im-going-to-get-my-belt-one-way-or-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/sijara-eubanks-im-going-to-get-my-belt-one-way-or-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Sijara Eubanks: &#8216;I&#8217;m going to get my belt one way or another&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a moment, Sijara Eubanks was expected to headline this Saturday&#8217;s UFC 230 card against Valentina Shevchenko. Then, after a wave of fan backlash surrounding this main event, she was reallocated to an undercard bout with Roxanne Modafferi, while a heavyweight title fight between Daniel Cormier and Derrick Lewis was inserted into the headlining spot.<\/p>\n<p>Sijara Eubanks, as you can imagine, was mad, and quickly went on a Twitter rant targeting the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s easy to sort of get caught up in moaning and be mad, but it\u2019s not going to help at all because the train is moving,&#8221; Eubanks recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/11\/sijara-eubanks-on-ufc-230s-life-lessons-im-going-to-get-my-belt-one-way-or-another\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said to MMAJunkie<\/a>. &#8220;Life goes on. \u2026 I gave myself some time to be pissed about it, but not much. The day that they took the title shot away, I re-signed for Roxanne that night, like 1 o\u2019clock in the morning. I went to bed, like, pissed off, but by the time I woke up the next morning, I had no choice but to move on. I had a whole new opponent, a whole new camp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a funny game, but it\u2019s sort of like life lessons. I can\u2019t dwell on what happened. I have to dwell on what\u2019s going on now and what\u2019s going to happen, and I can\u2019t worry too much about all the craziness that happened a couple weeks ago because I cannot lose focus on what\u2019s going on here Nov. 3.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eubanks did receive some good news as she mentioned. She is staying on the card to fight Roxanne\u00a0Modafferi. With a win, she believes she is next in line to fight for the title in the burgeoning women&#8217;s flyweight division.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thing is, I\u2019m going to get my belt one way or another,\u201d Sijara Eubanks said. &#8220;Keep chugging, keep training, keep working hard, keep the diligence, and it will happen. I think I deserve a shot vs. the winner of (Valentina Shevchenko vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk) with a dominant performance here, Nov. 3.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A dominant performance may indeed do it. And while she is disappointed that she hasn&#8217;t had the chance to fight for the belt yet, deep down, she knows she will eventually get a title shot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s been my goal as a mixed martial artist to be UFC world champion, and so I feel like twice I\u2019ve missed it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The first time was my fault, the second time it got snatched away. Hopefully, the third time is a charm, but I still have a mega-opportunity here to continue to solidify my dominance here in this division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe Sijara Eubanks deserves the next title shot with a win at UFC 230?<\/p>\n<p><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/1\/2018<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a moment, Sijara Eubanks was expected to headline this Saturday&#8217;s UFC 230 card against Valentina Shevchenko. Then, after a wave of fan backlash surrounding this main event, she was reallocated to an undercard bout with Roxanne Modafferi, while a heavyweight title fight between Daniel Cormier and Derrick Lewis was inserted into the headlining spot. 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