When she steps into the Octagon to take on Norma Dumont this Saturday at UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Curtis 2, it will have been 1280 days since we last saw Germaine de Randamie compete.
October 4, 2020 was still in the depths of the global pandemic, and no fans were in attendance on UFC Fight Island when she secured the guillotine choke against Julianna Peña to score both the win and a Performance of the Night bonus.
But this is a sport that moves fast, and many of the new fans that discovered UFC in the last half decade might still be new to the handiwork of “The Iron Lady,” one of the true OGs of women’s MMA.