Joanne Calderwood is confident in her decision to fight Jennifer Maia on short notice at UFC on ESPN+ 31 and believes it’ll help her in the long run. Calderwood (14-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) will fight for the first time this year when she meets Maia (17-6-1 MMA, 2-2 UFC) in the women’s flyweight co-main event of Saturday’s card, which takes place at UFC Apex in Las Vegas and streams on ESPN+. Her original plans called to challenge champion Valentina Shevchenko in June, but an injury forced “Bullet” to withdraw.
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