After a one-sided decision loss to former champion Jessica Andrade, Lauren Murphy said she’s prepared to take a few days without work.
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Murphy (sixteen-6 MMA, eight-6 UFC), who will turn 40 in July, became in large part ruled from bell to bell via Andrade (24-nine MMA, 15-7 UFC), who swept the scorecards with two 10-8 rounds from judges and one 10-8 body from the third. Their girls’ flyweight combat become a part of the UFC 283 primary card at the Jeunesse area in Rio de Janeiro.
Murphy had been on one of the nice runs within the one hundred twenty-five-pound division. Heading into the combat with former ladies’ strawweight champ Andrade, Murphy had gained six of 7 fights. Her lone loss in that stretch turned into a fourth-round TKO to dominant champ Valentina Shevchenko in a September 2021 title combat.
Murphy observed that loss up with a selection win over former girls’ bantamweight titleholder Miesha Tate in Tate’s flyweight debut to get returned on the course, and together with Andrade turned into eager for a potential name shot with a win in Brazil.
Now, she published on Instagram on Sunday, she’ll step back to rest, heal and determine what should be subsequent. She also said she’s grateful to her corner for no longer preventing the fight – that’s something the broadcast team of Jon Anik, Daniel Cormier, and Paul Felder stated more than one time at some stage in the fight.
Andrade’s win became her 0.33 directly, even though a submission of Amanda Lemos in April 2022 changed into a strawweight. She received the one hundred fifteen-pound title in 2019 with a knockout of Rose Namajunas but lost the belt later that yr in forty-two seconds to Zhang Weili. Then she lost a rematch to Namajunas and moved as much as a flyweight. After a win over Katlyn Chookagian, she was given a 2021 name shot with Shevchenko, however, became knocked out in the 2nd round.
