“Jéssica is very experienced,” she admits, “she has done many fights in the promotion, and we have studied each fight to see its evolution and every technical detail. So it is more interesting to try to unravel the mystery of fight.
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There is perhaps less mystery with Andrade than other opponents, partly because of Rodriguez’s admitted scholarly eye for “every technical detail”, but also because they have trained together in the past and today share a manager.
“We know a lot about each other, thanks to the manager. The negotiation (to fight) happened naturally, because the division is mixed and I wanted a fight that would bring me closer, if I win, to a title shot. And Jéssica was the perfect one among the Top 5.”