Lauren Mueller followed up her contract-winning performance on Dana White’s Tuesday Night Contender Series with one of the great fights of 2018 when she fought Shana Dobson at Fight Night Glendale. Just like that, the newly-minted women’s flyweight division was on notice.
Her second UFC fight, however, resulted in her first career loss. Fighting outside the US for the first time last November, the travel and short fight week took a toll on Mueller in Beijing where she was submitted in short order by Yanan Wu.
Lesser fighters would have been devastated by the setback, but Mueller has emerged even more cerebral and confident from the experience.