Filed under: Featured , News , UFC There’s rising to the occasion, and then there’s what Rose Namajunas did in 2017. The year didn’t start off that auspiciously for Namajunas. In her last effort of 2016, “Thug Rose” saw the momentum she’d built with three consecutive wins go down the drain with a split call that went Karolina Kowalkiewicz’s way in a UFC 201 title eliminator . Kowalkiewicz went on to get her shot at UFC glory in a UFC 205 meeting with long-reigning champ Joanna Jedrzejczyk (14-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC). Namajunas (7-3 MMA, 5-2 UFC), in turn, sat it out until April 2017, when a UFC on FOX 24 encounter with Michelle Waterson (14-6 MMA, 2-2 UFC) offered her a chance at recovery
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