UFC strawweight Felice Herrig returned after two years that saw multiple knee surgeries and the close of her long time gym (Jeff) Curran Jiu-Jitsu Academy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At UFC 252 on Saturday, “Lil Bulldog” was armbarred in 104 seconds by Virna Jandiroba.

At the post-fight press conference, Jandiroba said she was looking to end the fight early.

As everybody knows, I’m a [jiu-jitsu] specialist. As I said in my interviews, I had a Plan A or a Plan B. Plan A worked,” said Jandiroba. “I didn’t mention this to anybody before, but during camp I had a little bit of a problem – I lost my front teeth and I didn’t want to lose them again, so I tried to make it as quick as possible.

Felice was ranked, so hopefully come next week, I’m ranked. I think this maybe made a statement in the division and hopefully, the UFC is going to look with some more caring eyes to me and give me a top 10 opponent, just someone ranked, top five, who knows. Whatever they want to give me, I’ll be happy with it. But if I could keep on climbing the rankings, that would be great.

“As far as name goes, I’m just really focused on getting up in the rankings. So whoever is available, I’m more than happy to take them on. As far as the time frame, I could fight tomorrow – honestly, I didn’t take that much damage. Maybe next week. I think I have a mandatory suspension or something. As soon as that’s done, I’m ready to fight.

h/t Matt Erickson and Ken Hathaway for MMAjunkie