Rose Namajunas’ first-round technical knockout of Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 217 was one of the biggest — if the biggest — surprises in mixed martial arts of 2017.
For the woman known as “Thug Rose,” however, it wasn’t that much of a shock to see Jedrzejczyk go down that November night at Madison Square Garden in New York. In fact, you could say Namajunas even saw it coming.
The 25-year-old strawweight champion admitted as much during “UFC 1 on 1: Rose Namajunas .” The full interview premieres tonight on Fox Sports 1 at 7 p.