“I considered quitting the sport,” Joanna Jedrzejczyk gets emotional talking about her scary past in a recent interview
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Life wasn’t always easy for the former strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. The Polish strawweight fighter has gone through lot of hurdles in her life before her legendary run between 2015-2017 in the UFC.
Most of the fighters that make it big in the UFC have had a dreadful past and Joanna Jedrzejczyk’s wasn’t any different. If Joanna had not got the chance to fight Rosi Sexton, things would have gone downhill for the Polish fighter. The fighter is ready to make her return to the octagon in August.
Recently, Joanna Jedrzejczyk was gracious enough to accept an interview from BJPenn.com. In the interview, the fighter spoke about her past and her way to the top of the mountain. She also spoke about what she plans to do with her future. “Six months before I signed with the UFC, I wanted to quit and I was really broke and I was training, there was no fights, I got new management, I signed with Invicta [FC],” Jedrzejczyk told BJPenn.com.
“I won the fight in my town, some small show, and two weeks after I got a call from Cage Warriors to face Rosi Sexton, and my coaches and my manager didn’t want me [to] but they said, ‘Okay, it’s your decision,’ and I said, ‘Take this fight in two weeks, we win this fight, and we’ll sign with the UFC.’ I knock Rosi Sexton [out] in the second round because they thought I was going to lose because Rosi Sexton was a UFC veteran, but I didn’t. Three days after the fight I got a phone call from Sean Shelby and I did it. I did my UFC debut five weeks later,” Joanna Jedrzejczyk narrated.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk says she had no money despite being a Muay Thai champion
Joanna Jedrzejczyk is currently 16-4 in her career and is coming off a classic fight against Zhang Weili. The former champion in the interview reminisces about her past when she was a World Muay Thai champion and European Muay Thai champion. “There was no money, you know?” Jedrzejczyk said. “Since I was a little girl, I always liked money and I wanted to make money and I was a hard worker even when I had no money. I was never a person who was complaining and I was never a jealous person. For example, I had no Nike shoes, and I was not jealous that my friend had them,” she said.
“I was just like, ‘Okay, one day I’ll have the Nike shoes, one day I’ll have this or that,’ and I worked my ass hard to do that but I wanted to quit because I was investing everything into the sport. At that time I was a six-time Muay Thai world champion, five-time Muay Thai European champion, I had nothing – like no money. I just wanted to buy a car, buy nicer clothes, and I didn’t want to only invest when I was not getting back. So at that time, I considered quitting the sport,” Joanna ended.
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