{"id":63337,"date":"2025-08-12T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63337\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:02:09","slug":"gabriella-fernandes-took-her-title-dreams-up-a-notch-with-ufc-on-espn-72-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63337\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriella Fernandes took her title dreams up a notch with UFC on ESPN 72 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2013 Gabriella Fernandes met the media Saturday after her unanimous decision win over Julija Stoliarenko at UFC on ESPN 72.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes (11-3 MMA, 3-2 UFC) outworked Stoliarenko (11-9-1 MMA, 2-7 UFC) on the prelims at the UFC Apex. It was the Brazilian&#8217;s third straight UFC win after an 0-2 start in the promotion in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, the 31-year-old flyweight said her resume is starting to become one that warrants inclusion in the title conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If everyone believes in me, I&#8217;ve got to believe in myself, right?&#8221; Fernandes told MMA Junkie at her post-fight news conference. &#8220;\u2026 These are just steps and levels. These are things in your career that you have to go through. These are the things in my career I have to go through to get the things I want most.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out Fernandes\u2019 post-fight news conference in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/12\/ufc-espn-72-video-gabriella-fernandes-title-dreams-women-flyweight\/85625275007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gabriella Fernandes talks title dreams after UFC on ESPN 72 win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Gabriella Fernandes talks title dreams after UFC on ESPN 72 win<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 Gabriella Fernandes met the media Saturday after her unanimous decision win over Julija Stoliarenko at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,794,50750,786,50749,50748,785,3169,85,787,4908,9222],"class_list":["post-63337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-espn","tag-fernandes","tag-fighting","tag-gabriella-fernandes","tag-julija-stoliarenko","tag-mma","tag-mma-junkie","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-apex","tag-unanimous-decision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63337","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=63337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}