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Jessica Penne: 'Bully' Joanna Jedrzejczyk used 'mental warfare' to beat Carla Esparza

LOS ANGELES -- Jessica Penne watched the build up to the UFC women's strawweight title fight between Carla Esparza and Joanna Jedrzejczyk closely.

Day after day during UFC 185 fight week in March, UFC Embedded captured Jedrzejczyk doing something to get into Esparza's head. There was the angry scowling, the tirade after media day and, finally, the olive branch in the form of a cookie that Jedrzejczyk gave the then-champion after weigh-ins.

Penne was stunned that her friend Esparza, considered at the time the best women's 115-pound fighter in the world, really didn't have a response.