LAS VEGAS – Jessica Andrade has credited her strength to a childhood spent helping tend to her family’s small farm in Brazil. Now, we’re not telling the rest of the UFC’s strawweight roster to go grab the pitchforks and cornhuskers. But judging by ex-title challenger Claudia Gadelha ’s assessment of her onetime opponent’s power, it seems whatever Andrade did in that farm worked. “I was very surprised with her strength,” Gadelha told media, including MMAjunkie, during a recent media day in Las Vegas. “I compare her to a (125-pound) guy when it comes to strength and power. And I never felt that before, so I was very surprised
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