Claudia Gadelha lyckades under natten rada upp sin andra seger sedan senaste förlusten mot titelhållerskan Joanna Jedrzejczyk, då hon ströp ut Karolina Kowalkiewicz i första ronden under UFC 212. Gadelha anser dock att hon är den bästa fightern i stråvikt trots förlusterna mot Joanna, och detta hade hon att säga efter matchen mot Karolina via presskonferensen:
I consider myself the best fighter in the division. But I think a few things are missing that I needed to do to perform well inside of the Octagon. And that’s why I decided to change everything in my life. It has not been easy to leave my comfort zone. Ten years living in Rio, I went abroad alone, nobody there. Training with different trainers.
It doesn’t bother me at all to talk about that. We’re in a sport where you can win and you can lose at anytime. Of course, we always want positive results, but we can’t always get that.
And about my two defeats to Joanna, I only believe there is one. There’s two on paper, but if you were to analyze the fight, I did not lose that first fight to her. The second fight I really did lose, but if you were to look technically at it, I have better technique, and better MMA technique. I’m not a better striker, but I’m a better MMA fighter than Joanna. But I trained incorrectly to fight with her.
I killed myself. I trained for 17 weeks in my camp, killing my body. I was destroyed, I couldn’t even stand up. I was killing my body. I’m that kind of Brazilian. I never give up, and I always give my best at all times. And sometimes giving your best is not the right thing. You have to follow the recipe or it’s not going to come out right. That’s exactly what I did in the second fight against Joanna.
Claudia har tidigare sagt att hon inte vill ha ett returmöte mot Joanna trots seger vid UFC 212, men om hon kommer hålla sig till de orden återstår att se.
