If all goes to plan, UFC 311 will be a big moment for Ailin Perez’s fighting career.
The rising UFC women’s bantamweight contender faces veteran Karol Rosa in the preliminary card of Saturday’s UFC pay-per-view event. It’s an opportunity for Perez (11-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) to extend her winning streak to five in a row and, according to her, crack the top 10 of the UFC official rankings.
“It’s clear that it will,” Perez told Hablemos MMA when asked if a win over Rosa would put her in the rankings. “I’m going to beat Karol, and I’m going to do it in a way that’s going to leave everyone speechless, just like I did with Darya (Zheleznyakova).