Don’t get it twisted: Rose Namajunas’ goal is to regain the UFC strawweight title, no matter who she has to beat to get it.
That may sound like an obvious statement given that Namajunas is currently No. 1 in the UFC’s official contenders’ rankings, but there has been some confusion regarding the situation after UFC President Dana White publicly stated that he’d heard Namajunas was not interested in fighting for the title. Namajunas and her team were quick to respond and shot down the rumor.
In her lone appearance of 2020, Namajunas fought Jessica Andrade in a rematch of their UFC 237 encounter that Andrade won by second-round KO after a wicked slam.