Rose Namajunas immediately after UFC 274: ‘I gained that battle. I caught to the strategy’

Rose Namajunas took the the UFC 274 publish-battle press meeting phase nevertheless absolutely baffled by how she shed her women’s strawweight title to Carla Esparza by break up conclusion.

The battle was an complete stinker, with barely any motion or scoreable offense from possibly girls. In the stop the judges were compelled to throw 10-9 scores at rounds that experienced no problems and pretty tiny efficient striking or grappling. The final result was 49–46 and 48–47 scorecards for Esparza, although Namajunas earned a single 47–48 score (watch the ‘highlights listed here).

“I received that fight. I caught to the system,” a serene but perplexed Namajunas reported. “I felt like as if I landed a lot more pictures. I even took her down. None of her takedowns had been important or (had) any manage time. She hit me with, I’d say, one superior punch. And then, probably one more time, her forearm clashed into my nose at some level.”

“Other than that, possibly a pair of low kicks but I did not experience them or just about anything. I felt like I did the injury, I managed the struggle, and I’m happy of myself mainly because I caught to my approach, cuz I know that in all of Carla’s fights, she just baits people today in, and she tries to get people to assault her.”

“I’ve been in slugfests before,” she continued. “I’ve gotten my nose damaged, I’ve stood there and drop blood in the Octagon, so it is, like, I caught to the tactic. She didn’t seriously have any offense, she was whiffing at air the total time. So, I assumed I gained. I’m definitely still trying to process this because I’m not striving to be salty or everything. I sense like there’s a little something to be discovered from each and every decline.”

“I felt like I could have … there had been times when I preferred to capitalize a very little bit more, be a minor far more offensive in moments. But then, each individual time I would stage, my foot would slip. So I had to be a minor far more secure.”

“That’s the determination I designed in the second, but I am an remarkable fighter, I’m a finisher, I have acquired just one of the maximum ending amount. So I really don’t feel that I was acquiring the boos, I’m quite guaranteed that was Carla … Clearly I want to have fascinating fights, so that kind of stings a tiny little bit way too. So I dunno.”

Requested about Esparza earning a 49–46 score, “Thug Rose” mentioned she had no notion how a judge could see that.

“I never know what you could rely,” Namajunas mentioned. “The lowkicks? They weren’t even hurting me, they didn’t do anything. The takedown, perhaps? Perhaps all of her attempts? But I stuffed all of those people. I really do not know how quite a few instances she attempted to grab me but truly, I don’t get no credit rating for excellent defense?”

“Maybe the judges wished to see a slugfest. Like in past fights so maybe they weren’t appreciative of excellent system and things like that. I’m often in remarkable fights. I just cannot have a strategic fight? I gotta f**k up this face? No. F**k that.”

‘Strategic’ is one factor, but a finish deficiency of offense is what plainly missing Namajunas the fight. With an practically comprehensive absence of efficient putting, grappling, and aggressiveness, just a several more leg kicks could make the change. There have been only 67 major strikes landed by equally women of all ages more than the study course of their 25 moment battle. If which is approach, it is a negative approach. And Rose Namajunas paid out for it with her title.