ready to fight<\/a> for the title. That being said, Esparza is also reportedly in consideration to be the champion’s next challenger.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re still in talks with the UFC about Rose, but I can tell you that Rose is ready,\u201d Butler said \u201cRose has been ready. She\u2019s been ready, she\u2019s been in camp. Rose is ready to fight, honestly, in the next \u2013 she can fight on a couple of weeks\u2019 notice. She\u2019s ready to go. So we have to see. It could be Rose, it could be Carla, it could be whoever. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n
While White claimed that Namajunas is the one delaying this matchup, Butler actually divulged that there’s some reluctance on Zhang’s side, as the champion was forced to endure quite a bit of chaos before and after her latest trip to the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cWeili has been ready to go for some time now,\u201d Butler said. \u201cThe only hesitancy is\u2014her last fight, I don\u2019t know if everybody knows the full details on everything that happened. But for her to even get to that fight was trails and trails just to get there. To avoid the COVID, they flew her to Thailand. Then Thailand started to lock down, so they flew her to Abu Dhabi. She was traveling for the last third of that camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was flying all around the world just to kind of escape getting locked into a country, and then finally gets to Vegas, puts on the performance that she does, and then she\u2019s stuck in Vegas for several months after the fight because she can\u2019t go home. And then when she finally does get home, she has to basically get locked up again for another month. She has been a little bit paranoid to come back Stateside right now until things have calmed down.\u201d<\/p>\n
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