Rose Namajunas getting back in touch with her | MMA News
Former two-time ladies’s strawweight champion Rose Namajunas was initially slated to face former flyweight titleholder Alexa Grasso at UFC 324, but Grasso was compelled out of the bout due to injury. When the third-ranked Grasso fell out of the struggle, No. 2 ranked Natália Silva stepped in.
Silva comes from a taekwondo background. So does Namajunas. Heading into the ultimate three weeks of her UFC 324 training camp, Namajunas determined to ‘get back in touch with her roots.’
“We have three weeks of training camp left, so I’m very excited,” Namajunas said on her YouTube channel. “We have this girl, Kristina Teachout that’s coming in town. she’s a taekwondo bronze medalist, Olympian taekwondo practitioner. And so I’m very excited because obviously I’m fighting Natália Silva, so she’s got that taekwondo base and everything like that. And she adapts it for MMA very well.
“But even myself, that’s my base too. I just do not use it as a lot as she does. I rely on my boxing a lot, but I need to get back in touch with my roots. We’re just form of brining her (Teachout) in just to form of help with that and get my form of dexterity up with my kicks and stuff and response and timing and all the things like that.”
Namajunas didn’t bring in Teachout to replicate Silva’s fighting style. She was brought in for the learning experience and growth.
“I do not plan on her mimicking Natalia by any means, but I’m just a true martial artist. I really feel like all the things helps and all the things will be utilized if you have got the creativeness for it,” Namajuna said.
“I just pray all the things goes according to plan and all the things goes clean and whatnot.”
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