Watching Alexa Grasso dominate Jodie Esquibel in the main event of Invicta FC 18, you would never know that the Mexican standout was fighting for the first time in nearly 18 months.
A series of injuries put the 22-year-old on the sidelines, costing her an opportunity to fight for the strawweight title on multiple occasions and slowing her ascent towards stardom, but Grasso was able to pick up right where she left off in her entertaining win over Mizuki Inoue in February 2015 with a one-sided beatdown of the Jackson-Wink MMA Academy veteran on Friday evening in “The Show Me State.