LAS VEGAS – Yana Santos felt she was combating for her job at UFC on ESPN 61.
The ladies’s bantamweight veteran entered Saturday’s bout towards Chelsea Chandler on a three-fight shedding streak, along with her final win coming in 2021. Santos (15-8 MMA, 5-5 UFC) believed a fourth consecutive defeat might’ve value her her job with the UFC.
“It was most likely career-saving as a result of I had three losses, and also you by no means know what the UFC goes to do,” Santos stated. “It doesn’t matter if my opponent misses weight, doesn’t matter if I got here after supply, it’s my drawback, I accepted the struggle.
“If I determine to go to Russia after supply and go and struggle is my drawback, and so they have all the best to chop me if I’ve 4 losses. I really feel this was career-saving.”
Santos defeated Chandler (6-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) in a unanimous resolution. Not solely was the victory satisfying as a result of she put an finish to her shedding streak, but in addition as a result of Chandler had missed weight – one thing Santos didn’t take nicely.
Santos anticipated Chandler to make use of her perceived weight benefit within the bout, and was stunned it didn’t play a job within the struggle.
“I felt her method was so low within the a part of wrestling,” Santos stated. “What I used to be ready is that she can be stronger and that she would put effort to place me down as a result of that’s most likely the place she might use her weight, but it surely was fairly simple to defend the takedowns. It was a shock for me as a result of (the burden benefit) is necessary in wrestling and I believed it was going to make use of this.”
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