Throughout four appearances inside the Octagon at 125 pounds, former two-time strawweight champion Rose Namajunas is just 2-2 with competitive losses against two of the top fighters that the deepest division in women’s MMA has to offer.
To some, that has been enough evidence to suggest that the 32-year-old Namajunas might be in the wrong division. Others, who previously watched Namajunas make her 2014 UFC debut in a 115-pound title fight before competing on top for the next decade, have questioned whether her best days are long behind her and that she hasn’t been the same since parting ways with longtime trainer Trevor Wittman in recent years.
Namajunas, however, looks at it all a bit differently and believes she isn’t that far away from her goal of becoming a two-division champion. In one sense, her 13-7 career record speaks to her often mercurial nature in big fights but it also fails to represent just how great she can be when all things are properly aligned mentally for the native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Citing the adjustment period it takes physically for one to get used to a new weight division and the lessons learned from recent defeats against Manon Fiorot and Erin Blanchfield, Namajunas…
