Jillian Robertson believes she is the clear No. 1 contender for Mackenzie Dern’s UFC girls’s strawweight championship.
Robertson, who shared the Octagon with Amanda Lemos at UFC Vegas 114 final Saturday, was seeking to lengthen her win streak to 5. “The Savage” achieved his purpose with a unanimous choice victory on the prime of the meta.
Robertson, who hasn’t misplaced since 2023, believes the time is correct to problem for UFC gold. Through the UFC Vegas 114 post-fight press convention, Robertson mentioned he has his sights set on Dern’s 115-pound gold medal (h/t MMAJunkie).
“I believe that is the one factor that is smart,” Robertson mentioned. “5 wins in a row, most submissions, most finishes – I believe I deserve that spot. The one factor that solidifies me extra is that belt.”
Robertson then revealed that he was coping with a hip concern. She insists that will not stop her from difficult for the title in opposition to Dern.
“It is not an issue that we predict we will not battle,” Robertson mentioned. “It is about strolling, sleeping, issues like that. For me, it is extra about day by day life. It does not actually matter if there’s one thing within the cage.”
There’s a good likelihood that Zhang Weili will stand in Robertson’s means. Weili vacated the UFC girls’s strawweight title and challenged Valentina Shevchenko for the flyweight title. Ultimately, Weili fell quick in opposition to “Bullet” and will have returned to title competition at 115 kilos.
Robertson will transfer up within the official UFC girls’s strawweight rankings. She was ranked eighth going into her match in opposition to Lemos who was ranked fifth. She is going to seemingly observe within the footsteps of Weili, Tatiana Suarez, Vilna Jandirova and Yang Xiaonan.
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