If all goes to plan, UFC 311 will likely be a giant second for Ailin Perez’s combating profession.
The rising UFC ladies’s bantamweight contender faces veteran Karol Rosa within the preliminary card of Saturday’s UFC pay-per-view occasion. It’s a chance for Perez (11-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) to increase her successful streak to 5 in a row and, in response to her, crack the highest 10 of the UFC official rankings.
“It’s clear that it’ll,” Perez advised Hablemos MMA when requested if a win over Rosa would put her within the rankings. “I’m going to beat Karol, and I’m going to do it in a means that’s going to go away everybody speechless, identical to I did with Darya (Zheleznyakova).
“I’ve been on the hunt for lots of evolution and studying, not simply within the cage to complete my opponents, but in addition outdoors of it to evolve on the non-public aspect like a mom, daughter, sister. That’s what I must preserve advancing and persevering with undefeated at 135 kilos.”
Perez misplaced her UFC debut again in 2022 to Stephanie Egger at 145 kilos, a combat she took on quick discover. Since, she dropped to 135 kilos and stays unbeaten. She’s pleased with the work she’s carried out within the final two years, and believes 2025 will likely be filled with success.
“My first 12 months within the UFC in 2023 it was filled with wins, and I continued in 2024 undefeated with victories, and I used to be capable of enter the rankings and get a end in my final combat,” Perez mentioned. “I’ve gathered all that momentum and I wish to preserve advancing, and hopefully I get to the heights of combating for a UFC title. Every thing that’s occurring to me is a consequence of my laborious work.”
So far as her rival Rosa (18-6 MMA, 7-3 UFC), Perez is nicely conscious she’s bought a high quality opponent in entrance. However regardless of seeing her as her hardest bout thus far, Perez predicts a stoppage win.
“I feel she’s an entire fighter in her model and sport plan, however I really feel outfitted and ready to complete the combat with a stupendous knockout.”
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