Jessica Andrade won the UFC strawweight championship in an unusual but spectacular way. She defeated Rose Namajunas via second-round slam knockout in May at UFC 237 in a fight she had been losing. And while Andrade’s finish has been dismissed as lucky to some, Andrade (20-6 MMA, 11-4 UFC) says it’s something that she and her team had been preparing for. After all, her nickname is “bate estaca,” which translates to “pile driver” in English. “Some people might say I get lucky, but we trained for this,” Andrade recently told MMA Junkie. “Instead of slamming her, if I punched her and she dropped, would that be luck, too
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