Talita Nogueira only needed one win inside the Bellator cage to earn a shot at the featherweight championship, and bringing the belt back home to Brazil would be unprecedented for women’s jiu-jitsu.
Brazil has seen many IBJJF world champions make the transition to the MMA world and become champions throughout the history of the sport, like Fabricio Werdum winning the UFC belt and Ronaldo Souza capturing the Strikeforce gold, but no women has done that yet.
“Treta”, a world champion in jiu-jitsu as a black belt in 2011 and an undefeated mixed martial artist with a 7-0 professional record — with all of her wins coming by way of stoppage — can become the first woman jiu-jitsu world champion to hold a belt in a major MMA organization.