February 27, 2025 6:00 pm ET
MONTREAL – Jasmine Jasudavicius sees Jessica Andrade as the right take a look at to enter the higher echelon of flyweight.
Trying to make it five-straight wins, Jasudavicius (13-3 MMA, 7-2 UFC) takes on former champion Andrade (26-13 MMA, 11-7) in a three-round flyweight bout Could 10 at UFC 315 from Bell Centre.
Andrade is 2-4 in her previous six, however her title is scattered all around the report books in girls’s MMA – and that excites the rising Canadian.
“Her accolades are astronomical,” Jasudavicius informed MMA Junkie after the UFC 315 on-sale press convention. “So to have the ability to beat her (could be huge), and hopefully I do it in devastating vogue, after which I can proceed on this trajectory that I’m on.
“I need to struggle for the belt. I’ve educated all around the world, and I do know my talent set. I consider I may be the perfect on this planet. I simply want the alternatives to point out it and to show it to everybody and myself.” Regardless of the ability and ferocity Andrade brings, Jasudavicius plans on exposing her.
“She’s clearly very gifted, however she does have holes and she or he is ready to be type of uncovered in a number of alternative ways,” Jasudavicius stated. “(I’m) trying ahead to filling these holes.”
Sat proper subsequent to Jasudavicius within the press convention was UFC flyweight champion Valentina Schevchenko, who she aspires to face sometime. Shevchenko defends her title in opposition to Manon Fiorot within the UFC 315 co-main occasion, and Jasudavicius expects her to stay champion.
“I don’t know for positive, a struggle’s all the time a struggle, however simply listening to how Shevchenko was speaking within the press convention, I might hear the boldness,” Jasudavicius stated. “And I like her mindset about it is a blended martial arts contest, and with the ability to present the completion of blended martial arts. I’m very and intrigued for that struggle, and I feel she’ll take it nonetheless. I don’t suppose she’s retiring but.”
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