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How Janaisa Morandin defied the odds en route to shot at Invicta FC gold

“This is my biggest dream. This is everything I have. This fight is everything I have, and I’m giving my all.”

Janaisa Morandin is pumped up for her strawweight championship bout against undefeated 115-pound queen Virna Jandiroba at Saturday night’s Invicta FC 31 in Kansas City, but it wasn’t an easy road to get to this point.

”Evil Princess” made her professional MMA debut in 2013 after competing in muay thai tournaments in Brazil, and won nine in a row before joining the Invicta FC roster last year. That alone was a dream for the challenger, who was 22 at the time.