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Newly-crowned UFC champ Jessica Andrade offers Rose Namajunas immediate rematch

Newly-crowned UFC women’s strawweight champion Jessica Andrade has a tremendous amount of respect for Rose Namajunas. So much so that she is willing to offer ‘Thug’ Rose an immediate rematch.

Speaking to Ariel Helwani in a recent interview Andrade, who KO’d Namajunas to win the strawweight title at UFC 237, said she would love to fight the former 125-pound queen on foreign soil in Denver, Colorado.

“The person that I would really like to fight again would definitely be Rose,” Andrade said (transcription via BJPenn.com). “Because she did a very nice act of kindness to me by going to Rio to defend her belt — she had no obligation to do that.