“I don’t know if I stay cool,” she laughs. “But I do everything I think is right and I don’t take any shortcuts. My diet is on, I don’t mess with my training, I don’t miss sessions, I don’t make excuses. My morning runs I don’t miss even though my body looks like total death I don’t even know what day it is because they’re all crashing into each other But if I do all the work no matter what result, I can be happy because I tried my best. I didn’t try anything to cheat. And I believe that doing what I did will get the victory. This is your character. If you have a good character and are going to do that hard work, you are going to reach your potential.
It’s a lot of work for these t-shirts, but Jasudavicius was never afraid of hard work. Thereafter, the buzz about her getting into the big show started when she was an amateur, and it only intensified when she won her first four professional fights. But then came a split decision loss to Elise Reed in August 2020, and she had to reset.
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“You know how to get into the fight you have to have a good mindset, like dream-believe-achieve and all that?” she said. “Coming into this fight I believed I was going to win. I did everything right and I thought I was going to win, so when I didn’t it was a tough pill to swallow. And It’s funny because everyone says it, but it’s really the best thing that happens to you. It definitely caught me off guard, though. Before this fight, I thought the next step could potentially be the UFC, then after the loss, I was like, ‘Okay, how far does this take me?’ And I was lucky to only have one fight to get back to that place. But yeah, it was heartbreaking, that loss.
Seven months later, Jasudavicius moved to 5-1 with a win over Ashley Deen, and in September of last year she was fighting in UFC APEX against Polastri. Three rounds later, she picked up a win and a UFC contract.
