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Claudia Gadelha of Brazil prepares to fight Angela Hill in their strawweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on May 16, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Claudia Gadelha has been a fixture in the Top 5 of the women’s strawweight division since its inception, yet as she readies to face Yan Xiaonan on Saturday night in Las Vegas, the perennial contender feels like a dismissed member of the championship chase.

“I feel like a lot of things happened in the last years of my career,” began the Brazilian veteran. “I lost some fights that I shouldn’t have lost, I went through a lot of challenges switching camps and moving to America, and I feel like I haven’t performed the way I wanted to and that’s probably why they don’t mention me the way they should.