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Rose namajunas vs carla esparza fight12/29/2023 On that night, Esparza was an underdog to a less experienced opponent but she came away as the first ever UFC strawweight champion following a third round submission win over Namajunas. Just say yes.”Īs far as the fight goes, Esparza is excited to revisit her past experiences with Namajunas when they clash again on Saturday night, which comes just over seven years after their previous meeting in The Ultimate Fighter season 20 finale. You’ve just got to go with stuff and opportunities are going to happen, good things are going to happen for you. “I would say you’ve just got to roll with the punches in life, even during the whole pandemic, I took fights and I was like whatever. But worst case scenario, you re-do some pictures, you get to wear your dress twice. Just building my whole career up to this. “I feel like I’m winning no matter what marrying my fiancé. “I feel that if I win the title, that is just so huge and I would be so excited for that,” Esparza said. Ultimately, Esparza knows her wedding will be memorable no matter what - and thanks to her upcoming bout with Namajunas at UFC 274, she’ll have plenty of photos to prove it. She knows the risks involved because superficial wounds are almost expected, especially when dealing with a five-round title fight. Ideally, Esparza would love to have a little bit more time between her title fight and the wedding but she’s long since reconciled with the decision to keep the two dates just a week away from each other. That support helped me make the decision to keep the wedding ” “For me, I want him to think I look beautiful on our wedding day so his opinion and his thoughts were a huge factor of my decision. He was just so supportive and he said ‘I knew when I asked a fighter to marry me, I knew what it came with, bumps and bruises are a part of your job and that’s OK with me and you’re going to look beautiful to me no matter what’ and he was just super supportive. “I went to my fiancé and I said I have this amazing news but I’m kind of stuck with a little bit of a dilemma,” Esparza said. With two monumental occasions planned just seven days apart, Esparza had to sit down to talk with her fiancé about the best move to make because obviously the UFC wasn’t going to move an entire event just because she had her wedding planned. It was a decision I kind of struggled with a little bit.” You could be pretty messed up and no bride wants to look all swollen and beaten up on her wedding day. You never know what’s going to happen in a fight. “I’ve had my face beat up even after a jiu-jitsu match, like cut pretty bad. “Planning a wedding, just with itself is super stressful and it’s a lot of work and getting ready for a fight is the same, especially a title fight. That meant even with a victory on May 7, she might be walking down the aisle looking like she just went through a five-round war. When she got the call with the official offer to compete for the strawweight championship at UFC 274, Esparza had a decision to make because she was planning to take her vows exactly one week later. Carla Esparza knew there was a chance that her title fight against Rose Namajunas might coincide with her upcoming wedding but even she couldn’t have predicted the actual timing.
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