{"id":391479,"date":"2022-06-08T10:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=391479"},"modified":"2022-06-08T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:59:28","slug":"i-needed-that-i-was-fighting-very-often-joanna-jedrzejczyk-explains-the-reasons-for-her-long-hiatus-before-ufc-275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/i-needed-that-i-was-fighting-very-often-joanna-jedrzejczyk-explains-the-reasons-for-her-long-hiatus-before-ufc-275\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Needed That&#8230; I Was Fighting Very Often&#8217;- Joanna J\u0119drzejczyk Explains the Reasons for Her Long Hiatus Before UFC 275"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC flyweight champion Joanna J\u0119drzejczyk spoke to MMA Junkie and talked about her return to the fight game. The Polish fighter has been out of action since March 2020, when she went to war against Zhang Weili at UFC 248.<\/p>\n<p>The fight ended in a split decision loss for J\u0119drzejczyk, however, the scrap was anointed as the \u2018Fight of the Year\u2019 for 2020, a well-deserved honor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sf_ioVrK0uw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>J\u0119drzejczyk now returns at UFC 275 as she rematches Weili in the hopes of being catapulted back into the title picture with a win over the former champion. Zhang Weili has faced her fair share of ups and downs since her fight against Joanna J\u0119drzejczyk, as she\u2019s lost to both Jessica Andrade and Rose Namajunas since then.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/for-the-money-or-hes-kind-of-scared-brandon-moreno-isnt-on-board-with-deiveson-figueiredos-demands-for-more-money-from-the-ufc\/\">\u2018For the Money, Or He\u2019s Kind of Scared?\u2019- Brandon Moreno Isn\u2019t On Board with Deiveson Figueiredo\u2019s Demands for More Money From the UFC<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Joanna J\u0119drzejczyk on taking a break from fighting<\/h2>\n<p>The Polish fighter revealed that she wanted to take a step back from fighting after wrapping up her war against Zhang Weili. Per J\u0119drzejczyk, the break was geared towards bringing order back into her life and pursuing business ventures away from fighting. As a champion, J\u0119drzejczyk was extremely active and took on all challengers.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt was my personal decision to not fight,\u201d <\/em>Jedrzejczyk told MMA Junkie<em>. \u201cThe first break I took was after the fight with Valentina Shevchenko. I needed that. When I was the UFC champ, I was fighting very often. I was very active.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/bl8kr_\/status\/1386163736738684928?s=20&#038;t=uu1P-QMLQCJ1SFKN3eNItA<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOne of the reasons I took a longer break was the time for myself. We don\u2019t have the balance between the private life and the business and sports life. Then there was no fans at the arena and for me, there is no sport, any sport, without fans. I\u2019m happy I can perform in front of thousands of people in the arena or watching TV.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A rematch of an epic. Joanna Jedrzejczyk vs Zhang Weili II is just days away. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U169rxra99\">pic.twitter.com\/U169rxra99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Mac Life (@TheMacLife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMacLife\/status\/1534454332225355777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think that she\u2019s not the same after our first fight,\u201d Jedrzejczyk said. \u201cOf course I lost, but she\u2019s not the same. But she\u2019s still one of the most dangerous in the division. It\u2019s going to be a hell of a fight.\u201d<\/em> [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2022\/06\/ufc-275-joanna-jedrzejczyk-rematch-zhang-weili-medical-procedure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmajunkie.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>J\u0119drzejczyk is looking forward to coming back to action against a foe who pushed her to her limits. Zhang Weili is a notoriously tough outing, and she\u2019s known to put a hellacious pace on her opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC flyweight champion Joanna J\u0119drzejczyk spoke to MMA Junkie and talked about her return to the fight game. The Polish fighter has been out of action since March 2020, when she went to war against Zhang Weili at UFC 248. The fight ended in a split decision loss for J\u0119drzejczyk, however, the scrap was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":391480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}