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Jessica Andrade excited to stir up flyweight division: ‘I can put up a fight against Valentina’

New division, same results for Jessica Andrade.

Competing inside the octagon at 125 pounds for the first time on Saturday, Andrade leapfrogged the flyweight division’s contenders’ line with a first-round finish of Katlyn Chookagian in the UFC Fight Island 6 co-main event.

The victory made Andrade the first woman to have her hand raised in three UFC weight classes and also put her in position to potentially challenge the winner of November’s flyweight title clash at UFC 255 between champion Valentina Shevchenko and Jennifer Maia.