Joanna Jedrzejczyk may rule the 115-pound division with an iron fist, but the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) marketing muscle seems firmly behind the division's youngest competitor, Paige VanZant.
This Thursday evening (Dec. 10, 2015), the 21-year-old will compete in her first-ever main event opposite fellow young gun "Thug" Rose Namajunas, who steps in on short notice to replace the injured Joanne Calderwood, at UFC Fight Night 80, which will emanate from inside "The Cosmopolitan" in Las Vegas, Nevada.
VanZant -- whose age prevented her from joining the division's elite on The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 20 -- has earned four wins since a Jan.