{"id":313023,"date":"2019-05-09T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=313023"},"modified":"2019-05-09T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T18:33:21","slug":"ufc-237-rose-namajunas-speculates-why-she-is-the-underdog-against-jessica-andrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-237-rose-namajunas-speculates-why-she-is-the-underdog-against-jessica-andrade\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 237 | Rose Namajunas speculates why she is the underdog against Jessica Andrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 237 (see how to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/dtdeals\/ufc-237-namajunas-vs-andrade-espn-plus\/?utm_source=bjpenn&amp;utm_medium=content-text&amp;utm_campaign=ufc_conversions&amp;utm_content=ufc_237\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>) will be topped by a dynamite strawweight title fight, as the champion Rose Namajunas defends her title against fearsome challenger Jessica Andrade. Despite the fact that Namajunas is the reigning, defending champion, she&#8217;s been identified as a slight underdog against Andrade.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2019\/05\/champ-rose-namajunas-theories-ufc-237-betting-underdog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a> ahead of UFC 237, Namajunas took a guess as to why she&#8217;s currently the betting underdog against her tough Brazilian opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think maybe because I wear my heart on my sleeve, I take my emotions and I think maybe some people take that for weakness,\u201d Namajunas said. \u201cAlso I\u2019m long and lengthy so maybe some people think I\u2019m not strong or whatever, but it\u2019s also more than that. I am strong, but it\u2019s also being mentally strong, spiritually strong, everything. The whole package.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the oddsmakers have pegged Rose Namajunas as the underdog ahead of UFC 237, she can take some comfort in the fact that many of her fellow fighters are picking her to successfully defend her title against Andrade. In the latest edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/ufc-237-pro-fighters-make-their-picks-for-rose-namajunas-vs-jessica-andrade\/\">BJPenn.com&#8217;s Pro Fighter Picks<\/a>, Jared Cannonier, Ilima-Lei MacFarlane, Diego Ferreira, Cody Stamann and multiple others predicted the champion would successfully retain her belt in Rio de Janeiro this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Rose Namajunas should be the betting favorite ahead of her UFC 237 strawweight title fight with Jessica Andrade?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><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 5\/9\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 237 (see how to watch here) will be topped by a dynamite strawweight title fight, as the champion Rose Namajunas defends her title against fearsome challenger Jessica Andrade. Despite the fact that Namajunas is the reigning, defending champion, she&#8217;s been identified as a slight underdog against Andrade. Speaking to MMA Junkie ahead of UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":276558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10651,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC 237 | Rose Namajunas speculates why she is the underdog against Jessica Andrade | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rose Namajunas takes a guess as to why she&#039;s been identified as the betting underdog ahead of her UFC 237 fight with Jessica Andrade.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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