\u201cThe Lady G.O.A.T.\u201d wants a step up in competition.<\/p>\n
Undefeated No. 13-ranked<\/a> Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women\u2019s Bantamweight, Bia Mesquita, scored her third win inside the Octagon this past weekend, submitting Melissa Mullins in the first round at UFC Vegas 119<\/a> inside Meta Apex<\/a> in Las Vegas, Nevada (watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n For the first time in her mixed martial arts (MMA) career, Mesquita had to deal with some real adversity.<\/p>\n Indeed, Mullins touched her up on the feet and badly rocked the Brazilian early. But, instead of forcing Mesquita to keep striking, Mullins followed her to the ground \u2026 and that was all \u201cThe Lady G.O.A.T.\u201d needed. Moments later, Mesquita locked up the submission and kept her undefeated record intact.<\/p>\n At 3-0 in UFC with three submission wins, it is time for Mesquita to get a gigantic step up in competition \u2014 especially because she is already 35 years old and does not have years to waste slowly climbing the ladder.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m ready for anything, that\u2019s the \u2018Lady G.O.A.T.\u2019 mentality,\u201d Mesquita said in the cage. \u201cI want to be in the Top 10<\/a>, Top 5<\/a>. Ailin Perez, hey, you\u2019re disgusting for this weight division. This is not a place for you to shake your ass. I\u2019m going to kick your ass, girl.\u201d<\/p>\n The problem, of course, is that Perez is riding a six-fight win streak and is coming off a dominant victory over divisional staple, Macy Chiasson, meaning she is inching closer to her own possible title shot.<\/p>\n Still, if Perez wants to fight, make some money, and settle things with a surging contender, she has a very willing opponent.<\/p>\n It would also be a fascinating style matchup.<\/p>\n Perez relies heavily on her wrestling and top control, which has worked extremely well during her UFC run. But willingly grappling with Mesquita feels like a very dangerous game considering she is one of the best \u2014 if not the best \u2014 pure women\u2019s jiu-jitsu competitors UFC has ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Lady G.O.A.T.\u201d wants a step up in competition. Undefeated No. 13-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women\u2019s Bantamweight,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,6656,355513],"class_list":["post-753955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-results","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753955","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=753955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}