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Joanna Jedrzejczyk: ‘I want to be like Conor McGregor’

The UFC strawweight champion wants to go down in the history books as one of Poland’s finest athletes and one of the best female mixed martial artists of all time. She also plans to retire without a loss on her professional record.

She’s well on her way to doing so. The 29-year-old has defended her belt five times since capturing it with a dominant TKO win over Carla Esparza in March 2015, and is one of the most likable fighters on the UFC roster.

Barring a sudden halt to her success, it seems inevitable that Jedrzejczyk will eventually make her way to the 125-pound weight class, which will be formally added to the UFC at the conclusion of The Ultimate Fighter 26 later this year, in hopes of becoming one of the organization’s only two-division champions.