LAS VEGAS – Luana Pinheiro is comfortable with the concept of setbacks as she makes her MMA journey, which sees its next stop Saturday vs. Angela Hill at UFC Fight Night 241 . After starting her octagon tenure with three straight wins, Pinheiro (11-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) fell short in her biggest opportunity so far when she suffered a third-round TKO defeat to Amanda Ribas at UFC Fight Night 232 in November. Instead of beating herself up about it, though, Pinheiro (16-13 MMA, 11-13 UFC) took it as a moment of growth. “I think I made some mistakes that ended up costing me a lot, but at the end of the day wasn’t what we expected,” Pinheiro told MMA Junkie and other reporters through an interpreter at Wednesday’s media day. “I was happy with my evolution in some things, it was just towards the end that I ended up losing the fight
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