NEW YORK – Sijara Eubanks (4-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) knows her latest weight miss may cost her a title shot for now, but believes she’s still on the right track after her UFC 230 win over Roxanne Modafferi (22-15 MMA, 1-3 UFC). And at the very least, she knows for a fact that Joe Rogan now knows her name. “I did say a little something to Joe Rogan right before we got started (with the post-fight interview),” Eubanks told reporters, including MMAjunkie, following her victory at Madison Square Garden in New York. When Eubanks was briefly linked to a women’s flyweight title shot at UFC 230, Rogan was outspoken in his shock at the booking, insisting he didn’t know who Eubanks was . Coming from the UFC’s most seasoned commentator, that seemed damning for Eubanks’ claim that she deserved the spot. So when Eubanks scored a decision win over Modafferi in Saturday night’s FS1-televised prelim bout, it seemed tension might follow when Rogan stepped in the cage for a post-fight chat
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