{"id":295404,"date":"2025-11-19T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295404\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:50:09","slug":"joanna-jedrzejczyk-first-in-line-for-ufcs-inaugural-female-bmf-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295404\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Jedrzejczyk first in line for UFC\u2019s inaugural female BMF fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI would love to do it once again,\u201d Jedrzejczyk told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MCjbOfpezLE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On Paper with Anthony Smith<\/a>. \u201cI knew I was going to fight another war with Weili Zhang for the second time, so I knew if something was going to happen to my face, brain, or hematoma, or knockout, I would retire. I said it loud to my best friend. I was like, \u2018Man, if my head is going to be a balloon again, I will retire,\u2019 and I got knocked out, so I had to stay loyal to my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSometimes I regret it,\u201c the 38 year-old Jedrzejczyk added. \u201dThe money, the exposure, the fans. But nobody and nothing will bring your health and life back. You cannot pay for some things. You cannot just have a surgery on your brain. And so probably it was meant to be. I believe God\u2019s plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt would be female BMF fight, easy,\u201d Jedrzejczyk said. \u201cIf you ask me again, I would love to be back for this one. I\u2019m first in line, actually.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI would love to do it once again,\u201d Jedrzejczyk told On Paper with Anthony Smith. \u201cI knew I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,169459,169460,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-295404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-248","15":"tag-ufc-275","16":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295404","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=295404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}