Pereira told MMA Fighting. , external<\/a><\/p>\n“From the moment I realised the UFC wasn’t such a distant dream, I started to get ambitious. I set out goals, and one of the goals was to be the youngest girl in the UFC.<\/p>\n
“It felt great that I had achieved this, that my prediction became true.”<\/p>\n
Pereira, who has won the first six fights of her career and is nicknamed the ‘Golden Girl’, signed a contract with the UFC in December.<\/p>\n
In Rendon, Pereira is facing someone 17 years her senior who has one win and one defeat since her UFC debut in 2023.<\/p>\n
The youngest fighter in UFC history is Mexican-American Raul Rosas Jr, who was 18 years, two months and two days old when he debuted in 2022.<\/p>\n
American Jon Jones became the youngest champion in UFC history when he beat Mauricio Rua in 2011 for the light-heavyweight title, aged 23.<\/p>\n
UFC Noche, which is being held for the third time, is an event dedicated to Mexico celebrating the country’s independence day.<\/p>\n
The card is headlined by a featherweight contest between Brazilian pair Diego Lopes and Jean Silva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brazil’s Alice Pereira is set to become the youngest woman in history to fight in the UFC. Pereira…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-138006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}