{"id":394937,"date":"2022-06-30T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=394937"},"modified":"2022-06-30T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T11:05:16","slug":"always-wanted-to-retire-on-my-rules-joanna-jedrzejczyk-not-looking-to-become-gatekeeper-following-ufc-275-defeat-to-zhang-weili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/always-wanted-to-retire-on-my-rules-joanna-jedrzejczyk-not-looking-to-become-gatekeeper-following-ufc-275-defeat-to-zhang-weili\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Always Wanted to Retire on My Rules&#8217;- Joanna Jedrzejczyk Not Looking to Become &#8216;Gatekeeper&#8217; Following UFC 275 Defeat to Zhang Weili"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC flyweight queen Joanna Jedrzejczyk appeared on the MMA and talked about her decision to retire following UFC 275. The Polish fighter has been a figurehead of the division and her decision to walk away after suffering a devastating KO loss to Zhang Weili on the main card shocked many people.<\/p>\n<p>Weili landed a picturesque spinning attack right on Jedrzejczyk\u2019s jaw and the former champion was out before she hit the canvas, face first, no less. In her recent interview, she talked about how she came into the fight in the best shape of her life, but still had the thought of potentially retiring if things didn\u2019t go her way.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/OTrillmatic\/status\/1539410952117968903?s=20&#038;t=HXDk-2KGIGyyJQ2wgVi-lA<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not going to lie \u2014 I was going to win,\u201d Jedrzejczyk told MMA Fighting on Wednesday. \u201cI was in my best shape ever but like I said so many weeks before the fight and even a few days before the fight during media that anything can happen and it happened. It happened to me that I went down.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/trying-to-take-away-my-greatness-israel-adesanya-issues-3-million-challenge-to-anyone-who-can-prove-he-took-peds-in-2020s-titygate\/\">\u2018Trying to Take Away My Greatness\u2019- Israel Adesanya Issues $3 Million Challenge to Anyone Who Can Prove He Took PED\u2019s in 2020\u2019s \u2018Ti*tygate\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut before the fight, like during the camp, I had this moment that I was thinking about it. I was thinking about if something happened, I would retire and it happened. It just happened. It was momentum because of what happened in the fight. If I lost on points, I could sit and think about it but I don\u2019t want to waste my health.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5uA51ZwZ4VY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, she was clear that her name wasn\u2019t to be used as a springboard for younger fighters looking to make their name off her. Jedrzejczyk \u2018accepted\u2019 where she is and is glad to have been able to walk away on her own terms when it was all said and done.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI always wanted to retire on my rules and I don\u2019t want to be this gatekeeper,\u201d Jedrzejczyk explained. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be this legend who is going to fight forever and forever and get beat up. That\u2019s the thing. I accept where I am at, what my age is. [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/6\/29\/23187984\/joanna-jedrzejczyk-i-always-wanted-to-retire-on-my-rules-and-i-dont-want-to-be-this-gatekeeper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jedrzejczyk retired with an MMA record of 16-5, with all her 5 defeats coming in the final 7 fights of her professional MMA career.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC flyweight queen Joanna Jedrzejczyk appeared on the MMA and talked about her decision to retire following UFC 275. The Polish fighter has been a figurehead of the division and her decision to walk away after suffering a devastating KO loss to Zhang Weili on the main card shocked many people. Weili landed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":394942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394937","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\/394937","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=394937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}