Jessica Andrade is a fighter who has benefited the most from a weight class change. Her first UFC fight was at bantamweight (135) and now she fights and is the champion of strawweight (115). The twenty-pound weight drop has bolstered her tremendously, hence her new crown.
However, I find that the weight drop has resulted in a change in mentality for Andrade. In this article, I’m going to examine how physicality has changed Andrade’s style and what that means for her future. I find Andrade a fun, devastating fighter, but she has yet to show me and others that she can be a technical-thoughtful brawler.