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#jessica-andrade

When I step onto the mat, I feel fear, but I remember the countless hours spent in training that helped unearth strength I didn't know I had.

What makes me so grateful to be part of Gotham is how they invested in me when I was at a low. I didn't realize it at the time, but I wasn't actually playing very well when the deal came about. The trade was abrupt and came at a difficult point in her career, yet the organization's commitment during her struggles proved pivotal.

For me it just came naturally. When I started doing super fights age 14, 15, and it just came naturally to me to just walk confidently into the cage or the mat or wherever I'm fighting,

In December, all of a sudden there was like a sore in my mouth that just appeared, and the commission opted to pull the fight off [the card]. You go through a full camp, get prepared to face a fighter like that, you're ready to go, you make weight, then that happens.

Alex, I don't even have words to talk about you. You know we're very shy, that sometimes we search for words of praise and they don't come. But the heart speaks louder than the mouth. Thank God I fulfilled my dream seeing you. It's very difficult for someone to have a son like you, and today I have you, my son...

but I've not felt the championship fight feeling. Outside of that, all the other ones is, when I'm in it, I'm in it, and I'm taking this guy as serious as possible, as he's the best in the world right now. He's stopping me, I've got to get through him to get to any step after him. So we take it very serious.

Carano last fought in 2009 and subsequently went on to build a career in Hollywood. Carano made headlines after she was released by Lucasfilm in 2021 following controversial comments. Carano is now back in training at Syndicate MMA under coach John Wood. Wood says Carano got back in shape over the last few months and is training with professional fighters now. While Wood doesn't want to jump the gun, he isn't shutting down the idea of Carano returning to combat sports.

Larissa Pacheco couldn't resist taking a shot at Kayla Harrison. Responsible for the only defeat of the current UFC bantamweight champion in her 20-fight MMA career (19-1), Pacheco used her Instagram to taunt her former opponent with a carousel of six images and an ironic text. "The intern thought we should remember this day," Pacheco wrote. The post was made by the former Professional Fighters League champion 11 days before the fight between the champion and her current training partner, Amanda Nunes, on Jan. 24 in Las Vegas in the co-main event of UFC 324.