{"id":342905,"date":"2025-12-12T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342905\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:14:12","slug":"melissa-croden-eyes-top-15-rankings-spot-at-final-ufc-card-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342905\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Croden eyes top 15 rankings spot at final UFC card of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melissa Croden battles Luana Santos on the December 13th UFC Fight Night in what is the promotion\u2019s final card of 2025. With Santos in the number fifteen spot in the 135-pound division, \u2018Scare\u2019 Croden could find herself in the rankings hierarchy heading into 2026. When getting her thoughts on what that would mean to her at this juncture, Croden said [via MMA Canada<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah. I mean, again, it\u2019s another; it\u2019s a new thing to think about. It\u2019s a new thing to consider and new goals to be had, right? Like I think it would be, as far as I understand, like if I am successful against Luana [Santos] then I would potentially be within the top 15 after my second fight in the UFC.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich is, you know, I feel like is a fast track to that top 10, like who knows? If things go well, like I could be in the top 10 pretty quickl yif I keep finding these successful moments. So, I\u2019m ready for the ride. You know, if God wills it and that\u2019s what I\u2019m meant to do, then I\u2019m ready for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Melissa Croden looks forward to the challenges Luana Santos will present at UFC Vegas 112<\/p>\n

When assessing the skill set and general resume of her next opponent Santos, someone else who has a win over Tainara Lisboa. With Santos having been in the UFC for a little bit now, with some prior LFA<\/a> experience, when offering up her thoughts on the resume and general skill set from Santos heading into this fight, Croden stated [via MMA Canada<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s wellrounded. Yeah, I respect her immensely as a fellow martial artist. I know that she specializes in Judo. So that\u2019s what everybody is going to be [working on] if you were to prepare against her. Like everyone\u2019s going to be focusing on the defense on those throws and whatnot and wall work and that sort of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when people are specialists that way, you kind of have to flip your mind instead of being afraid of \u2018oh what are they so good\u2019 at rather than \u2018okay they spent so much time getting good at one thing which means they haven\u2019t spent a lot of time in other aspects of the fight game,\u2019 so. But regardless she\u2019s wellrounded.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe knows what she\u2019s doing in there. She\u2019s been doing really well in her fights. She is coming up from 125, like having most of her fights at 125, I believe. So I think again I\u2019m going to have the size advantage, but you know, that doesn\u2019t always mean everything, right? Like I\u2019m well aware of my strengths and weaknesses against this particular person. So I\u2019m really excited about the challenge. Like I\u2019m glad that she\u2019s good because if I do well, it means just that much more, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melissa Croden battles Luana Santos on the December 13th UFC Fight Night in what is the promotion\u2019s final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,138193,785,85,787,44865],"class_list":{"0":"post-342905","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-melissa-croden","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-fight-night"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342905","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=342905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}