Pereira To Become Youngest Woman To Fight In Ufc

Brazil's Alice Pereira is group to go nan youngest female successful history to conflict successful nan UFC.

Pereira will beryllium 19 years, 8 months and 24 days aged erstwhile she faces Mexican bantamweight Montserrat Rendon astatine UFC Noche successful San Antonio, Texas, connected Saturday.

She thumps nan erstwhile grounds group by South Korea's Chan Mi Jeon, who was 19 years, 9 months and 13 days aged erstwhile she debuted successful 2017.

"That was nan intention. I had that ambition from nan start, nan dream of being nan youngest girl," Pereira told MMA Fighting. , external

"From nan infinitesimal I realised nan UFC wasn't specified a distant dream, I started to get ambitious. I group retired goals, and 1 of nan goals was to beryllium nan youngest woman successful nan UFC.

"It felt awesome that I had achieved this, that my prediction became true."

Pereira, who has won nan first six fights of her profession and is nicknamed nan 'Golden Girl', signed a statement pinch nan UFC successful December.

In Rendon, Pereira is facing personification 17 years her elder who has 1 triumph and 1 conclusion since her UFC debut successful 2023.

The youngest combatant successful UFC history is Mexican-American Raul Rosas Jr, who was 18 years, 2 months and 2 days aged erstwhile he debuted successful 2022.

American Jon Jones became nan youngest champion successful UFC history erstwhile he hit Mauricio Rua successful 2011 for nan light-heavyweight title, aged 23.

UFC Noche, which is being held for nan 3rd time, is an arena dedicated to Mexico celebrating nan country's independency day.

The paper is headlined by a featherweight title betwixt Brazilian brace Diego Lopes and Jean Silva.