UFC Vegas 52:
Lemos vs. Andrade
Saturday 04.23.2022 at 06:00 PM ET
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Amanda Lemos:
“To be honest, I didn’t imagine it was going to be a main event until I saw the fight was against Andrade. I imagined maybe a co-main event or something like that because I’m really in the moment, I was coming off of a main card, she’s been having lots of good fights, she’s highly ranked, so I knew that it was going to be a high position but I didn’t expect it to be a main event. If I put on a show against Jessica Andrade, I think it’s very possible that the title comes next and that’s the goal.”
It’s definitely a great opportunity and I was searching for a fight like this for a while. She’s a famous, famous fighter, a former champ a really tough fighter. I was really glad to get this opportunity to be able to show the audience how good I am and how far I’ve come.
I’ve been working a lot on my own mistakes. Last fight I committed a few of them so I’ve been watching a lot of my previous fights, watching a bit of my opponent. And that’s what we’re working on. There are a few surprises that I have in store for the next fight but I’m going to keep that to myself.
Each fight that passes by I see what works out, what doesn’t, what I need to do to keep on going, motivating me. Last fight, we made some mistakes and we’re setting these mistakes right right now and I know that they’re not gonna happen for my next fight with Jessica Andrade. She thinks she won, I think I won, and the judges think I won. So there’s not really anything to discuss about this. Except that the judges have decided. I won the fight.
I take my work extremely seriously, if the fans want a show, I’m gonna be the person to show them the show. If they want to see blood, if they want to see punches, I’m going to show them that. I’m going to show them a war.”
-Amanda Lemos