{"id":34928,"date":"2025-07-31T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34928\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:37:07","slug":"bjj-gwoat-beatriz-mesquita-set-for-ufc-debut-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/34928\/","title":{"rendered":"BJJ \u2018GWOAT\u2019 Beatriz Mesquita set for UFC debut later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beatriz Mesquita, considered by many to be the greatest female BJJ star of all time, is set for her UFC debut later this year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/beatriz-mesquita-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"nlz w-full h-auto wp-post-image\" alt=\"Beatriz Mesquita\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As we know, Brazilian jiu-jitsu has been at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/one-championship\/bjj-legend-marcelo-garcia-returns-to-competition-expected-to-make-one-debut-in-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forefront of mixed martial arts<\/a> for many, many years. In fact, some would argue that it was the dominant skillset for a long time \u2013 and you won\u2019t find too many people who will argue with that. Well, when you\u2019re talking about some of the most accomplished athletes in the history of the sport, Beatriz Mesquita is certainly up there.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/ivanka-trump-reveals-her-love-for-brazilian-jiu-jitsu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivanka Trump reveals her love for Brazilian jiu-jitsu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bia has been dominating throughout most of her career, to the point where she\u2019s earned \u2018GWOAT\u2019 plaudits from pretty much every corner of the BJJ community. Now, though, at this stage in her life, it seems as if she\u2019s interested in pursuing something different.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/leoguimaraesmma\/status\/1950599604145168839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">recent report<\/a> from L\u00e9o Guimaraes, Mesquita is now ready to make an MMA run in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, which is something she\u2019s teased heavily in the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"pt\">Fui informado que Bia Mesquita assinou contrato para enfrentar Alekseeva em 11 de outubro, UFC Rio <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k7IdT1gFjb\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/k7IdT1gFjb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 L\u00e9o Guimaraes (@leoguimaraesmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leoguimaraesmma\/status\/1950599604145168839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beatriz Mesquita, considered by many to be the greatest female BJJ star of all time, is set for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-34928","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\/34928","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=34928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}