Same opponent. Same state. Same title on the line.
The difference is that it’s Rose Namajunas who will be walking in as the champion this time around.
“Thug Rose” heads into her first strawweight title defense Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 223 in Brooklyn, where she faces the woman she beat for the gold at UFC 217 last November in New York City, Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
At Wednesday’s press conference to promote the event, Namajunas only had the chance to speak on a handful of occasions as the majority of the questions were aimed at main event fighters Khabib Nurmagomedov and Max Holloway, but that seemed to suit the 25-year-old champion just fine as she was short in her responses.